Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

The Start-Job, Get-Job, and Remove-Job commands

The Start-Job command is most commonly used to execute a script block in a very similar manner to Invoke-Command. Start-Job may also be used to execute a script using the FilePath parameter.

When Start-Job is executed, a job object, System.Management.Automation.PSRemotingJob is created. The job object continues to be available using the Get-Job command regardless of whether the output from Start-Job is assigned. This is shown as follows:

PS> Start-Job -ScriptBlock { Start-Sleep -Seconds 10 }Id    Name    PSJobTypeName    State      HasMoreData    Location     Command--    ----    -------------    -----      -----------    --------     ------- 1    Job1    BackgroundJob    Running           True    localhost     Start-Sleep -Seconds 10PS> Get-JobId Name PSJobTypeName ...