Leveraging Windows PowerShell Jobs
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This course is designed to introduce an IT professional to the jobs feature of Windows PowerShell. You will learn how to use background, thread, and scheduled jobs to do more with PowerShell in less time.
Windows PowerShell is, for the most part, a single-threaded interpretive language. When you run a command, you must wait for it to complete before you can do anything else. In this course, Leveraging Windows PowerShell Jobs, you will learn to take advantage of PowerShell’s job feature. This allows you to take potentially long-running commands and run them in the background while you continue working. First, you will learn how to use the native background job feature of Windows PowerShell. This is a handy technique for running commands in parallel. Then, you will learn about thread jobs, which offer a few benefits over traditional background jobs. Finally, you will learn how to combine the simplicity of background jobs with the power of a scheduled task as you learn about scheduled jobs. By the end of the course, you will have additional PowerShell skills to accomplish more work in less time.
Author Name: Jeff Hicks
Author Description:
Jeffery Hicks is a veteran IT Pro with 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. He has been creating Pluralsight content for over 10 years. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, and speaks frequently at technology confer… more
Table of Contents
- Course Overview
1min - Background Job Fundamentals
11mins - Advanced Background Job Techniques
37mins - Using Thread Jobs
35mins - PowerShell Scheduled Jobs
33mins
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