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Last night I spoke to the CNY .NET Developers Group<\/a> about background jobs in Windows PowerShell. Even though the audience was primarily developers, I discussed jobs from an administrator's perspective, that is, using cmdlets. The job feature in PowerShell 2.0 is pretty amazing and you don't need any programming skills. <\/p>\n

Naturally my talk had plenty of demos. I used the ubiquitous Start-Demo script. You can download a zip file here<\/a> with my demo scripts. The demos are text files with PowerShell comments and commands. You can copy and paste the PowerShell commands into your shell if you want to try them out. In the zip file you'll also find a transcript of my session. I recorded the entire presentation and assuming the quality is good, I hope to make it available online as well. If you would like a copy of the slide deck, you can also grab it here<\/a> as a PDF file.<\/p>\n

Don Jones and I discuss jobs in our PowerShell book<\/a>. If you are looking for PowerShell training, consulting or mentoring, let me know<\/a>. I'd be very happy to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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