PowerShell in Depth, Second Edition

Chapter 11. Background jobs and scheduling

This chapter covers

• Creating jobs
• Retrieving job results
• Managing the job queue
• Using scheduled jobs

In PowerShell, jobs are one of the many extension points provided to the shell for you to build on. Jobs allow you to run tasks asynchronously—you get the prompt back to continue working while PowerShell runs the job in the background. PowerShell v4 (beginning in v3) defines four broad but distinct types of jobs: those based on the Remoting architecture covered in the previous chapter (also known as background jobs)—though they don’t use PowerShell Remoting directly—those based on WMI and CIM, and those based on a new “scheduled job” architecture.

Note

The CIM cmdlets themselves don’t ...