Stop/Start windows service remotely. Wait till it stops completely

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I have to update the windows service.exe and related dll by using console on remote computer.

I tried

net start <servicename>

but it not allowed to query or issue command on the remote computer.

then I tried sc & PsService from SysInternals.

sc \\<ServerName> stop <ServiceName>

PsService \\<ServerName> stop <ServiceName>

the problem is both of them issue stop command and returned the control but I want to sure that service is stopped completely so that 

I can update files.

so 

I write the following code to do that.

@echo off
set serverName=server1
set serviceName=ervice1
sc \\%serverName% stop %serviceName%

call:check %serviceName%

echo the service %serviceName% on servcer:%serverName% is :stopped
goto:eof

:check
echo serverName: %serverName% 
echo seriveName %~1

sc \\%serverName%  query %~1 | find /I "State" |  find /I "STOPPED"
echo %ERRORLEVEL%
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (  
 goto:check %~1  
) else (
  goto:eof
)