Features
Automation with PowerShell Workflows
Did you know that PowerShell has Workflow capabilities? If not, you are not the only one. PowerShell Workflows are a more powerful way to do automation and is used for long-running processes that needs to survive restarts and may require persistence. Most of the times you can manage most with a simple script but in some cases you need a more advanced workflow engine. Best of all, it is free!
When is PowerShell Workflows a good idea?
- Long-running activities.
- Repeatable activities.
- Frequently executed activities.
- Running activities in parallel across one or more machines.
- Interruptible activities that can be stopped and re-started.
Here are some workflow related functions / featues:
- Workflow
- Parallel
- Foreach –parallel
- Sequence
- InlineScript
- Checkpoint-workflow
- Suspend-workflow
Onify is a perfect tool and interface for either running synchronous PowerShell scripts or asynchronous PowerShell workflows.
For more information about PowerShell workflows, please read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/sma/overview-powershell-workflows.
