Help with a background job in Powershell

Hey all,

I just need some help getting my script to work. What my script does is connects to a bunch of computers on the domain and retrives a value out of their registry to make sure it is set correctly. I have about 3000 machines to loop through and all of them are spread out accross the nation. Looping through these one at a time takes forever because of the latency. What I would like to do is kick off this registry read for each computer as it's own background job so more than one can run at a time. The problem is I cannot find any examples of how to start multiple jobs and retreive their output etc. Im guessing I would have to create an array of jobs??? It probably also would be better to only run maybe 10 at a time or the processor will be hammered? Anybody have any experience with this?

Here is what I have so far but cannot quite seem to get it to work:


Function Get-Registry($Computer) {

      Trap { $Output = "$computer an error occured!"; return $Output  }  
      
      $Output = "" 
      $ping = New-Object System.Net.Networkinformation.Ping
      $Result = $ping.send($Computer)
      
      if (!($Result.status -eq "success")) { $Output = "$computer is offline!"; return $Output  }
      
      $reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $Computer)
      $Key = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"
      
      $RegKey = $Reg.opensubkey($Key)

      foreach($val in $RegKey.getvaluenames()) {
            if ($val.tolower() -eq "uihost") {
                  $Temp = $RegKey.getvalue("$val")
                  
                  if ($Temp.tolower() -like "logonui.exe" -or $Temp.tolower() -like "c:\windows\system32\logonui.exe") {
                        $Output = "$Computer is set correctly! UIHost = $Temp"
                        return $Output
                  } else {
                        $Output = "$Computer is not set correctly! UIHost = $temp"
                        return $Output
                  }
                  
            }
      }
      
      

}
foreach ($computer in $script:computers) {
      Write-Host -NoNewline -ForegroundColor white "Scanning: " 
      Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan $computer.tolower()
      $Job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { Get-Registry $Computer }  
                     Receive-job $Job
      }
}


I need to be able to take the output from my function and write it to a file....preferrably the same file and just have it appended.

Thanks