Write-Progress for 10 Minutes PowerShell

powershell, powershell-2.0, sharepoint, web-services

Solution

If I understand the question correctly the goal is to show some additional information in the progress messages. This can be done for example by using the `Activity` parameter. The script below only shows the idea (for 1 minute, for a shorter test). It should be modified in order to reflect actually needed format of the message and information to be shown.

$time = 60 # seconds, use you actual time in here
foreach($i in (1..$time)) {
    $percentage = $i / $time
    $remaining = New-TimeSpan -Seconds ($time - $i)
    $message = "{0:p0} complete, remaining time {1}" -f $percentage, $remaining
    Write-Progress -Activity $message -PercentComplete ($percentage * 100)
    Start-Sleep 1
}

The progress looks like this:

57 % complete, remaining time 00:00:26
   Processing
   [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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