The 'using module' statement into a ThreadJob's ScriptBlock

ManuelBerfelde 

AndreiPossamai 

It is doable, but not necessarily advisable.

If the module's simple, such as only defining classes and functions then you'll be fine. But if you're doing more complex work like using database connections and other limited resource operations then you can run into issues if you're not careful - and overhead may become an issue, too, if initialisation operations take a long time.

Still, here's some example code you can use within your job's [scriptblock] to get around PowerShell's "using must be the first line" error.

$Script = [scriptblock]::Create("using module 'D:\Data\Temp\Forum\Forum.psm1'");
. $Script *> $null;

Cheers,

Lain