To complement Keith Hill’s helpful answer with a PSv3+ alternative: The $using: scope modifier can be used to reference the values of variables in the caller’s scope inside the script block passed to Start-Job, as an alternative to passing arguments (by default, a script block executed as a background job does not see any of … Read more
There is nice solution from comments section of some dude’s post. Commenter suggests to use Init parameter to setup working directory of script block. function start-jobhere([scriptblock]$block) { Start-Job -Init ([ScriptBlock]::Create(“Set-Location ‘$pwd'”)) -Script $block }
Aha. This turned out to be a simple problem of there being spaces in the path to the script. Changing the Invoke-Expression line to: Invoke-Expression “& `”$scriptPath`” $argumentList” …was enough to get it to kick off. Thanks to Neolisk for your help and feedback!