{"id":1876,"date":"2014-03-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/03\/04\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-job-help\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-job-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-job-help\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Job Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to find more Help about the Windows PowerShell job engine.\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How can I find out more about Windows PowerShell jobs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;One of the best ways to discover anything about Windows PowerShell is to read the Help files <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and work through the examples that are presented. Each of the cmdlets has its own Help file, for instance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Help Start-Job &ndash;ShowWindow<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">There are also a set of about_ files:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&pound;&gt; doc about*job* | select name\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Name<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Jobs<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Job_Details<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Remote_Jobs<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Scheduled_Jobs<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Scheduled_Jobs_Advanced<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Scheduled_Jobs_Basics<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">about_Scheduled_Jobs_Troubleshooting<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find more Help about the Windows PowerShell job engine. &nbsp;How can I find out more about Windows PowerShell jobs? &nbsp;One of the best ways to discover anything about Windows PowerShell is to read the Help files &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and work through the examples that are presented. Each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,189,4,45],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-background-jobs","tag-richard-siddaway","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find more Help about the Windows PowerShell job engine. &nbsp;How can I find out more about Windows PowerShell jobs? &nbsp;One of the best ways to discover anything about Windows PowerShell is to read the Help files &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and work through the examples that are presented. Each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}