How to suspend an script activity Temporarily ?

There are situations where the script execution needs to be suspended or paused for few milliseconds or seconds.

PowerShell Syntax

Start-Sleep    [-Seconds]

Start-Sleep -Milliseconds

If the activity needs to be paused for 15 seconds

Start-Sleep 15

If the same needs to be given in milliseconds, then we should use the Milliseconds

Start-sleep -milliseconds 15000

Basics of PowerShell Session

#Create a new Powershell Session to the computer

New-PSSession -ComputerName client7-1

Id Name            ComputerName    State         ConfigurationName     Availability

 -- ----            ------------    -----         -----------------     ------------

 12 Session12       client7-1       Opened        Microsoft.PowerShell     Available

#It gets the PS Session details

# Like Id, Name, ComputerName, State, ConfigurationName, Availability

Get-PSSession

                                                                       

#enter the powershell Session

Enter-PSSession -ID 12

PS C:\Windows\system32> Enter-PSSession -ID 12                                           

[client7-1]: PS C:\Users\Administrator\Documents> echo $env:ComputerName              

#To know which computer we are logged into

echo $env:ComputerName

CLIENT7-1

# Exit the powershell session

Exit-PSSession

echo $env:ComputerName

DCNUGGET

#To see the list of PS Session

Get-PSSession

Id Name            ComputerName    State         ConfigurationName     Availability

 -- ----            ------------    -----         -----------------     ------------

 12 Session12       client7-1       Opened        Microsoft.PowerShell     Available

#To remove the PSSesion, then we will not be able to connect back

Remove-PSSession -id 12

Get-PSSession