chapter-18.md

Variables: a place to store your stuff

1. Create a background job that queries the Win32_BIOS information from two computers (use localhost twice if you have only one computer to experiment with).

start-job -ScriptBlock {Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_BIOS -ComputerName winserver,localhost}

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2. When the job finishes running, receive the results of the job into a variable.

$job = Receive-Job -Keep -Id 1

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3. Display the contents of that variable.

$job

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4. Export the variable’s contents to a CliXML file.

$job | Export-Clixml -Path C:\dev\biosfromvar.xml