Thanks again Paul. Another great answer.

In my research on this, I came across an SSIS / WMI solution that might be better. I have to actually do this execute this service check / stop / start / upgrade stuff at 180 remote sites or so. I have the SSIS / WMI solution very close, I just cant figure out how to get a script task to authenticate on the remote system. I posted that question over in the SSIS forum.

Any thoughts on this approach would be appreciated.