As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m considering a series of monthly topics for future posts. The series or monthly topic can be anything, as long as it’s PowerShell related 😉 In this blog post, you can add ideas for that!
Goal
My goal is to, in addition to my regular Blog Posts, answer questions or help people with their PowerShell journey. The poll I created for this is now closed (10-06-2025), and the results are:
My topic is not listed, or I want to add more information to my topic answer.
I only added a few as an example (And to get an idea of popular topic areas), but you can add a Comment below this blog post with your specific question for a topic, or if you need help with a PowerShell-related script, etc.
Wrapping up
This blog post is for getting more of a feel about the topics that you want or like, or the questions you might have. Please take the time to select one or more topics (Closed) or leave a Comment below (Still available). Have a lovely weekend!
Hello Harm –
May not be enough content for a recurring series, but I’m interested in the steps you use when setting up a brand-new administrative workstation.
Stuff like:
Which modules you install on which flavors of PowerShell?
When you use PowerShell 5 vs. 7?
How you setup and use Visual Studio Code?
What your execution policies look like?
Recommendations for script handling and organization (are your scripts sitting in OneDrive, local, shared folders, etc..).
Maybe it’s just me, but anytime I get a new machine, it takes forever to get it ‘just right’.
Noted these and yes, it’s always a hassle on a new machine but I automated a lot of stuff for that. Some topics were already covered earlier, but need a revisit/update. Thanks for the input, appreciate it!
Hi Harm, love your blog! Most people use PS for work/IT related stuff. But I’d love to see more about:
PS’ webscraping abilities, with both static and dynamic sites. Maybe Playwright/Selenium/Anglesharp/HTML-agility-Pack usage, webdrivers, xpath, css selectors, etc…
Also a lot more with/about AI and/or Excel. Doug Finke has great modules!
How about using PS to wrap/use great commandline tools like: ffmpeg, yt-dlp, ripgrep, xidel?
Using PS to control GUI’s with the AutoIt DLL and/or PS with Power Automate.
Good articles on James Brundage modules. He’s very playful and advanced with PS.
PwshSpectreConsole / WinUIShell (mdgrs-mei’s modules)
Using Linq with PowerShell to speed things up.
AST, what/when to use it for.
Writing DSL’s with PS.
Bruce Payettte’s Braid.
These are just some ideas! Thx!
Nice suggestions, thanks! Noted 👌
Hello – not sure if you’re still taking suggestions, but I just came across some odd behavior related to LINQ extension methods in Powershell that made me realize how little I know about how to use extension methods in Powershell. I’d be curious to see a blog post covering that!
Specifically, take the following more standard linq method use, with output as I would expect:
PS C:> $IntRange = [System.Collections.Generic.List[object]]::new(1..10)
PS C:> [System.Linq.Enumerable]::Skip(($IntRange),3)
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
What I found is that I can then turn this into the following:
PS C:> $IntRange = [System.Collections.Generic.List[object]]::new(1..10)
PS C:> [System.Linq.Enumerable]::Skip(($IntRange),3).Take(4).Skip(2)
6
7
So far, this is the only place I’ve ever found that extension methods can actually be called as extension methods in Powershell, but I have no idea why this even works? Maybe I’m one of the few who would actually read it, but I’d love a post exploring this behavior.
That could be a nice topic! Didn’t cover that before, but I will add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion, appreciated!