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need help passing argument to script or function called in Start-JOB

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March 7, 2016 at 1:01 pm

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Hi,
I am automating delete from personal mailbox
mails to be placed in 60 different folders and over weekend total number of email could be 10000+
initially I created function that get subfolder name from file and delete records in each folder one by one , delete might take a while....
so I modified script to use start-job in order to run delete in 60 folders in parallel ,
( see script bellow runs fine and take about 1 minutes to delete 10000+ emails from 60 folders)
$ScriptBlock =
{
param([int] $OlderThenDays, [string] $Subfolder)
$MailBox = "DBA@mMydomain.com"
# Outlook Connection
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
# Outlook folder to clean
$EmailsInFolder = $Outlook.Session.Folders.Item($MailBox).Folders.Item($Subfolder).Items
$Today = get-date
$i=($EmailsInFolder.count-1)
For($i; $i -ge 1; $i--)
{
$difference = New-TimeSpan -Start $($EmailsInFolder)[$i].SentOn -End $Today
if ($difference.Days -ge $OlderThenDays)
{
$($EmailsInFolder)[$i].SentOn
$($EmailsInFolder)[$i].Subject
$($EmailsInFolder)[$i].delete()
}
}
}
$x = 0
$data = Get-Content "U:\PS\LabOutput\Outlooksubfolders_test3.txt" # I already got list of subfolders
foreach ($line in $data)
{
write-host $line
Start-Job $ScriptBlock -ArgumentList $x , $line
}
What I prefer to have: 1 function defined in module or file and call to this function in Start-JOB
something like ...

$x = 0
$data = Get-Content "U:\PS\LabOutput\Outlooksubfolders_test3.txt" # I already got list of subfolders
foreach ($line in $data)
{
write-host $line
Start-Job -ScriptBlock {My-Function-With-Parameters-To-Delete-From-Subfolder -OlderThenDays $args[0] -$Subfolder $args[1]} -ArgumentList $x, $line }
}

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Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 1

Are you asking how you define a named function in a script file?

Gaz

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ebooklub Hall of Fame Points: 3905 More actions · Answer 2

I want to call function in Start-Job and submit parameters to the function

Example

function DoSomeWork (param [int] param1, [string] param2)

{

code...

}

I want to call DoSomeWork like ..

Start-Job -ScriptBlock {DoSomeWork -param1 $args[0] -param2 $args[1] } -ArgumentList '1', 'test'

or

create Test1.ps1 with code bellow

----

Import-Module \\dc1\Share\PS\Myfunctions

(param [int] param1, [string] param2)

function DoSomeWork (param [int] param1, [string] param2)

----

and call it like

Start-Job -ScriptBlock {C:\Scripts\Test1.ps1 $args[0] -param2 $args[1] } -ArgumentList '1', 'test'

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 3

The following is a real example from one of my ps1 script files:

function New-EosDistributionGroup

{

[CmdletBinding()]

Param

(

[Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$true)][string]$Name

,[Parameter(Position=1,Mandatory=$true)][string]$Domain

,[string]$DisplayName

,[string]$Trustee

,[bool]$InternalGroup

)

# Some code here.

}

...and this is a call:

New-EosDistributionGroup "Contracts" "GaryVarga.com" -DisplayName "Gary Varga" -Trustee "Gary Varga"

I hope this helps. Any questions? Just ask!!!

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

ebooklub Hall of Fame Points: 3905 More actions · Answer 4

Gary Varga (3/7/2016)
The following is a real example from one of my ps1 script files:
function New-EosDistributionGroup
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$true)][string]$Name
,[Parameter(Position=1,Mandatory=$true)][string]$Domain
,[string]$DisplayName
,[string]$Trustee
,[bool]$InternalGroup
)
# Some code here.
}
...and this is a call:
New-EosDistributionGroup "Contracts" "GaryVarga.com" -DisplayName "Gary Varga" -Trustee "Gary Varga"
I hope this helps. Any questions? Just ask!!!

Hi Gaz,

the goal is to call function New-EosDistributionGroup in parallel 60 times using Start-job

Start-Job -ScriptBlock {New-EosDistributionGroup $args[0] $args[1] $args[2] $args[3]} -ArgumentList "Contracts" "GaryVarga.com" -DisplayName "Gary Varga" -Trustee "Gary Varga"

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 5

I haven't used Start-Job but I assume that you just call it in a for loop.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!