How To Free Up PowerShell While Running Long Scripts
Discover how to efficiently manage long-running PowerShell scripts with background jobs. Brien Posey shows you how to use the Start-Job, Receive-Job, and Stop-Job cmdlets to create, monitor, and retrieve results from background jobs, keeping your PowerShell session accessible. Learn how to integrate these jobs into your scripts for optimal performance.
The Jobs.ps1 script featured in this video:
$job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock {1..10000000 | Measure-Object -Sum }
while ($job.state -eq ‘Running’) {
Write-Output “Job is still running…”
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
$job = Get-Job -Id $job.Id
}
$result = Receive-Job -Job $job
$ Display the result
Write-Output “The sum is: $($result.Sum)
$ Remove the job
Remove-Job -Job $job
Brien Posey is a bestselling technology author, speaker, and 21x Microsoft MVP. In addition to his ongoing work in IT, Posey has trained as a commercial astronaut candidate in preparation to fly on a mission to study polar mesospheric clouds from space.
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