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Okay, so now that we've created jobs and

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we can remove them, we now need to

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understand how we can wait for background

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jobs to actually complete. And, of course,

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that would be useful to know, because we

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need to know that the jobs have completed

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so that we can execute other things

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afterwards. So the command we'll use is

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Wait‑Job. What this one does is suppresses

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the command prompt until one or all of the

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PowerShell background jobs running in the

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session are complete. That's what it's

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designed for. If I want to utilize Wait, I

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can say Get‑Job | Wait‑Job. And that will

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actually tell me to wait for that specific

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job to complete and suppress the command

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prompt. I could then wait for several jobs

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by ID to finish. So I could say Wait‑Job,

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specific ones that are executing by ID,

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and then it will suppress again and wait.

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I could also then wait for any of the

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Invoke‑Command options to run. So if I'm

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doing Invoke‑Command into a new PowerShell

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session, as we did previously with the

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Get‑Process ‑AsJob, I could then say get

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that job and then just wait. So we have a

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way of kind of waiting or at least forcing

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the console to wait for a job to complete.

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This is helpful if you're trying to review what's going on in that job itself.