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Working Smarter with PowerShell Background Jobs

This course will teach you how to multitask PowerShell commands by using Jobs.

Liam Cleary - Pluralsight course - Working Smarter with PowerShell Background Jobs
by Liam Cleary

What you'll learn

Most organizations utilize PowerShell scripts for managing systems and performing administration tasks which can take long periods of time to complete or need to be ran across multiple servers. Instead of manually executing the commands on all the remote servers, you can simply push these tasks to the background using jobs, which will improve performance and management. In this course, Working Smarter with PowerShell Background Jobs, you’ll learn to how use PowerShell Background Jobs. First, you’ll explore multi-tasking within PowerShell. Next, you’ll discover how create PowerShell Jobs. Finally, you’ll learn how to manage PowerShell jobs. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of PowerShell jobs needed to improve time consuming and long running PowerShell tasks.

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Liam Cleary - Pluralsight course - Working Smarter with PowerShell Background Jobs
Liam Cleary

Liam began his career as a Trainer of all things computer-related. He quickly realized that programming, breaking, and hacking was a lot more fun.

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