Managing Jobs in Windows Powershell

Jobs are nothing logical tasks to be done. A job may create one or more processes.

Here is the list of Job commands in Windows Powershell.

1. Start-Job
2. Get-Job
3. Receive-Job
4. Remove-Job
5. Wait-Job
6. Stop-Job
7. Resume-Job
8. Suspend-Job
9. Get-StorageJob
10. Get-PrintJob
11. Get-ScheduledJob
12. Get-JobTrigger

Below image shows some of these commands in action.

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Getting child jobs

When you start a job that runs on multiple computers, Powershell creates as many child jobs on each system.

To get the child jobs, you can use below command.

> Get-Job -id <Job-Number> | Select -ExpandProperty childjobs

Running a command as a Job

You can execute any command as a Job as shown in below example.

invoke-command -scriptblock {get-process} -computer localhost -asjob