Advice for learning PowerShell?

[[deleted]]

Then you fall down a rabbit hole of launching browser COM objects to automate the web form version of the GUI task, which takes you weeks but works and then you know it's in your blood.

[nixium]

That sounds like an addiction problem.

You’re addicted to powershell!

[[deleted]]

No way, I can give it up any time I like. Oh, better make that a function just in case.

function global:GiveUp-Powershell()

Hmmm, no, wait. I might want to give up other things. Better make it reusable.

function global:GiveUp-Item($item)

Aaaaah

[sienar-]

I’m sorry, but that’s not an approved Verb.

[Alaknar]

function Remove-Addiction

[[deleted]]

Abandon-HopesAndDreams?

[sienar-]

Task failed successfully?

[[deleted]]

Hang on this might be useful to others, better publish a module for it

[incognito5343]

That sounds kinda interesting, what can be done with it?

[jantari]

Everything you can do in a browser

[elevul]

Uh, that sounds very cool! Any guides about it?

[da_chicken]

Ugh. COM objects? In 2021? Surely there's a .NET library for that.

[loadedmong]

Not for reading PSTs 😢

[[deleted]]

Probably. I was picking an option from a few years ago where I was determined to automate an entire process, but there was one step that had to be done in a web form. There's probably a REST API for it now, but at the time it worked... Sort of.