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 and/or asynchronous PowerShell workflows.

For more information about PowerShell workflows, please see the Microsoft docs.