14 Multitasking with background jobs
Everyone’s always telling you to multitask, right? Why shouldn’t PowerShell help you with that by doing more than one thing at a time? It turns out that PowerShell can do exactly that, particularly for longer-running tasks that might involve multiple target computers. Make sure you’ve read chapter 13 before you dive into this chapter, because we’ll be taking those remoting concepts a step further.
Heads Up We will be using a lot of the Az cmdlets in this chapter, which does require an active Azure subscription. These are just the examples we chose to highlight.
14.1 Making PowerShell do multiple things at the same time
You should think of PowerShell as a single-threaded application, meaning that it can do ...
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