PowerShell HacktoberFest

Open-source PowerShell projects categorized as HacktoberFest

Top 23 PowerShell HacktoberFest Projects

HacktoberFest
  • winget-pkgs

    The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository

  • Project mention: FFmpeg 7.0 Released | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-04

    7.0 is now available: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/147886

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • docker

    Docker official jenkins repo (by jenkinsci)

  • Empire

    Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that is used to aid Red Teams and Penetration Testers. (by BC-SECURITY)

  • PowerShell

    PowerShell functions and scripts (Azure, Active Directory, SCCM, SCSM, Exchange, O365, ...) (by lazywinadmin)

  • Project mention: Need help on powershell script to retry 5 times if failure | /r/PowerShell | 2023-06-25

    Lazy Admin - New-RandomPassword

  • dbatools

    🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer

  • Project mention: Python vs Powershell on *nix Systems | /r/PowerShell | 2023-12-07
  • PowerShell-Docs

    The official PowerShell documentation sources

  • Project mention: Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-13
  • PSKoans

    A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.

  • Project mention: If you have no experience, learn Powershell (or Python) | /r/ITCareerQuestions | 2023-12-08

    PSKoans

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  • Microsoft365DSC

    Manages, configures, extracts and monitors Microsoft 365 tenant configurations

  • BurntToast

    Module for creating and displaying Toast Notifications on Microsoft Windows 10.

  • Project mention: Toast notification disappears after few seconds, how to hold until taking any action on display? | /r/PowerShell | 2023-10-14
  • boxstarter

    Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages

  • Project mention: Repeatable, Reboot Resilient Windows Environment Installations Made Easy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-25
  • GPOZaurr

    Group Policy Eater is a PowerShell module that aims to gather information about Group Policies but also allows fixing issues that you may find in them.

  • Pode

    Pode is a Cross-Platform PowerShell web framework for creating REST APIs, Web Sites, and TCP/SMTP servers

  • PSWriteHTML

    PSWriteHTML is PowerShell Module to generate beautiful HTML reports, pages, emails without any knowledge of HTML, CSS or JavaScript. To get started basics PowerShell knowledge is required.

  • PSWinReporting

    This PowerShell Module has multiple functionalities, but one of the signature features of this module is the ability to parse Security logs on Domain Controllers providing easy to use access to AD Events.

  • Testimo

    Testimo is a PowerShell module for running health checks for Active Directory against a bunch of different tests

  • Project mention: DNS (Windows/AD) Health-Checks and/or Utilities to confirm no errors/issues? | /r/sysadmin | 2023-07-11
  • ff2mpv

    A Firefox/Chrome add-on for playing URLs in mpv.

  • chocolatey-packages

    Chocolatey Community Maintainers Team Packages - packages that are managed and maintained by core community team for community package repository (https://community.chocolatey.org/packages)

  • windows-powershell-docs

    This repo is used to contribute to Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and MDOP PowerShell module documentation.

  • ADEssentials

    PowerShell Active Directory helper functions to manage healthy Active Directory

  • PSTeams

    PSTeams is a PowerShell Module working on Windows / Linux and Mac. It allows sending notifications to Microsoft Teams via WebHook Notifications. It's pretty flexible and provides a bunch of options. Initially, it only supported one sort of Team Cards but since version 2.X.X it supports Adaptive Cards, Hero Cards, List Cards, and Thumbnail Cards. All those new cards have their own cmdlets and the old version of creating Teams Cards stays as-is for compatibility reasons.

  • PSRule.Rules.Azure

    Rules to validate Azure resources and infrastructure as code (IaC) using PSRule.

  • SqlServerDsc

    This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server.

  • Project mention: Next Step in Career | /r/PowerShell | 2023-07-05

    For it was : https://github.com/dsccommunity/SqlServerDsc

  • scoop-nerd-fonts

    A scoop bucket for installing nerd fonts

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source HacktoberFest projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 winget-pkgs 8,239
2 docker 6,507
3 Empire 3,975
4 PowerShell 2,464
5 dbatools 2,359
6 PowerShell-Docs 1,916
7 PSKoans 1,646
8 Microsoft365DSC 1,441
9 BurntToast 1,373
10 boxstarter 1,283
11 GPOZaurr 814
12 Pode 791
13 PSWriteHTML 790
14 PSWinReporting 698
15 Testimo 510
16 ff2mpv 485
17 chocolatey-packages 437
18 windows-powershell-docs 431
19 ADEssentials 406
20 PSTeams 398
21 PSRule.Rules.Azure 374
22 SqlServerDsc 355
23 scoop-nerd-fonts 350

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