Asynchronous and remote execution with powershell 2 ctp3 - An interesting feature released with the PowerShell 2 CTP3 is the ability to run background jobs consisting of arbitrary PowerShell code. In order to use this functionality you must download and install the PowerShell 2 CTP3 and the WinRM (Windows Remote Management) 2.0 CTP. Keep in mind that installing the CTP requires uninstalling previous versions of PowerShell. Depending on the PowerShell and operating system versions involved the procedure can vary. Google/Bing is your friend. Once bringing up PowerShell you have to enable remoting by invoking the aptly named Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet Enable-PSRemoting -force Now the meat. Consider the following code: # copy bigfile.txt on a background thread $job = start-job -scriptBlock { cp bigfile.txt bigfilecopy.txt } # here's where we'd perform some other logic while our file copies # wait for job...
