PowerShell and DevOps

TMW03 Windows PowerShell and Workflow: A Powerful Pairing!

11/20/2019

8:00am - 9:15am

Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Michael Wiley

Senior Customer Engineer

Microsoft

Ever wanted to speed up your scripts using parallelization? (Think multi-threading, but easier). What about giving your long-running script the ability to service reboots, network failures, or power outages? Come explore how PowerShell works in conjunction with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to enable the creation of highly parallelizable, scalable and robust long-running tasks using the familiar syntax of a PowerShell function.

You will learn:

  • Discover how to create scripts that can survive interruptions, even reboots!
  • Explore ways to decrease the time taken to run a script by sending commands in parallel
  • Leverage another language all while using familiar PowerShell syntax