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So let's understand the PowerShell job

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flow. Well first off, we start the

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PowerShell job. Then we can retrieve the

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job, so get the information about the job,

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the current status, etc. We'll then need

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to wait for the job to execute its

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commands. And then we can retrieve the

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results from whatever we passed into that

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job, whether it was a PS script that we

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passed or we just had it execute another

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command. And then, of course, we can

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remove the job. And that's the process

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flow that we should go through when

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utilizing background jobs. We start the

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job, wait, retrieve, receive, etc., and

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then clear the job up. It's important to

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understand that we do remove jobs at the

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end so they don't just sit in the batch

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queue and be listed there. So that process

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flow has specific PowerShell cmdlets that

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are tied to each object. So to initiate

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the job, we use Start‑Job. To get the

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current status of the job, we can use

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Get‑Job. To wait for the job, we can use

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Wait‑Job. To retrieve the results for the

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job, we use Receive‑Job. And then to clear that job down, we use Remove‑Job.