When working with SCVMM it is common to perform administrative tasks using PowerShell. One very nice thing in SCVMM is that when using the UI it will create a script in the end and the idea is that you should be able to use that script and you can, one time…why?

…because you need to generate a new ID every time you run the script, so how do you do that?

Generate a GUID using PowerShell:

$JobGroupID1 = [Guid]::NewGuid().ToString()

The result when generating a GUID.

Using the generated GUID in a SCVMM PowerShell script

Here is a list of CMDlets that uses _JobGroup

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/ab1e7054-69c7-44ee-a475-229f9557b653/jobgroup-what-cmdlets?forum=virtualmachinemanager

/mike