PowerShell Job Progress Monitoring

Question 1

Is there a way for a PowerShell job to report progress or to trigger events before it is complete? I just started playing around with executing background jobs in PowerShell and am wondering how far I can push the capability.

Question 2

The standard “manual” way is to use the Get-Job cmdlet. As for events, when you create a job with Start-Job, the Job object returned has a “StateChanged” event on it you can subscribe to e.g.:

$job = Start-Job { Get-Process; Start-Sleep -seconds 60 }
Register-ObjectEvent $job -EventName StateChanged `
    -SourceIdentifier JobStateChanged `
    -Action { Write-Host "Job $($Sender.Id) $($Sender.JobStateInfo)" }

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$job = Start-Job { Get-Process; Start-Sleep -seconds 60 }

Register-ObjectEvent $job -EventName StateChanged `

-SourceIdentifier JobStateChanged `

-Action { Write-Host "Job $($Sender.Id) $($Sender.JobStateInfo)" }

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