Chapter 18. Creating PowerShell workflows
Workflows are an important new feature of PowerShell v3. They’re an incredibly rich, complex technology that we can’t possibly cover comprehensively in this chapter; they really deserve their own book. But they are a type of tool you can create and make great use of, so we wanted to include this chapter as an introduction to them.
18.1. Workflow overview
Workflows are a type of PowerShell command, just as cmdlets and functions are types of commands. One of the easiest ways to understand workflows is to contrast them with their closest cousin: functions.
Functions are declared with the function keyword, as you’ve seen several times in earlier chapters; workflows are declared with the workflow keyword. ...
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