Scheduled jobs - book error?

From chapter 15 section 9 of  “… Powershell 3 in a month of lunches” I was getting a different result than what the book was stating.

The command is:Â (no issue with the command)

Register-ScheduledJob -Name DailyProcList -ScriptBlock {Get-Process} -Trigger (New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 2am) -ScheduledJobOption (New-ScheduledJobOption -WakeToRun -RunElevated)

My issue is with the following:

The book says “Unlike normal jobs, receiving the results from scheduled jobs won’t delete the results, because they’re cached on disk and not in memory. You can continue to receive the results over and over.”

I ran get-job to see that the job has run and there is data. Next I tired receiving the data from the job using  "receive-job -Name DailyProcList " and the data was displayed as expected.

Here is the issue, get-job now shows this job as having no more data available. Running “receive-job -Name DailyProcList” again returns nothing. So I checked the  xml file on the disk and there is data. Side note import-clixml doesn’t work when trying to read the data but I could be doing something wrong there.

I do know about the  -keep switch and will continue to use it but I just wanted to know if was doing something wrong or this was a typo in the book.

Thanks

 

That’s standard job behavior. Unless you specify -Keep, Receive-Job can only receive once. PSScheduledJobs are meant to be a bit different, I believe - I’ll need to look more specifically - I don’t have a copy of the book right in front of me - and do make sure you’re using the PSScheduledJob module.

CliXML is a specific format. It can’t read any XML successfully except its own. Job data isn’t stored in CliXML.

According to the “about_Scheduled_Jobs” help file:

 Even though the Receive-Job command did not include the Keep parameter,
 the results of the job are saved on disk until you delete them or the
 maximum number of results are exceeded.

 The job results are no longer available in this session, but if you
 start a new session or open a new Windows Powershell window, the
 results of the job are available again.