Richard Siddaway's Blog

You usually start background jobs using Start-Job. Now you can start jobs with &. As of PowerShell v6.0 putting & at the end of a pipeline causes the pipeline to be run as a PowerShell job, for instance this pipeline: PS> Get-Process | Sort-Object -Property CPU -Top 5   Is run as a background job […]

I’ve written a couple of times this year on the problems around the PowerShellGet module and the Scope (Allusers or CurrentUsers). The situation is a lot easier now that Install-Module and Update-Module Scope parameter is available. Install-Module has always had a Scope parameter. Update-Module has a Scope parameter as of PowerShell v6.2.1 and Powershell v7.0 […]