Execute Persistence.ps1 on your target (how you accomplish this is limited only by your imagination, tiny grasshopper). That's it. No explosions. No confetti. So, let's see what actually happened behind the scenes. Pull up Task Scheduler on the target system:

Among the tasks scheduled to run on this system, note the little guy called Updater. It is designed to trigger a PowerShell script every hour. It says here that the next runtime is 23:48. Well, it's not quite that time yet, so I'll reboot the target, grab some coffee, and relax, with Meterpreter listening for the songs of its people.

Boom! At 23:48:02, the meterpreter session dials in, right on cue: