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Top 23 PowerShell HacktoberFest Projects
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Empire
Empire is a post-exploitation and adversary emulation framework that is used to aid Red Teams and Penetration Testers. (by BC-SECURITY)
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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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PowerShell
PowerShell functions and scripts (Azure, Active Directory, SCCM, SCSM, Exchange, O365, ...) (by lazywinadmin)
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PSKoans
A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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boxstarter
Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages
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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.
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Pode
Pode is a Cross-Platform PowerShell web framework for creating REST APIs, Web Sites, and TCP/SMTP servers
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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.
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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.
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Testimo
Testimo is a PowerShell module for running health checks for Active Directory against a bunch of different tests
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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)
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windows-powershell-docs
This repo is used to contribute to Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and MDOP PowerShell module documentation.
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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.
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SqlServerDsc
This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server.
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SaaSHub
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7.0 is now available: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/147886
Project mention: Need help on powershell script to retry 5 times if failure | /r/PowerShell | 2023-06-25Lazy Admin - New-RandomPassword
Project mention: If you have no experience, learn Powershell (or Python) | /r/ITCareerQuestions | 2023-12-08PSKoans
Project mention: Toast notification disappears after few seconds, how to hold until taking any action on display? | /r/PowerShell | 2023-10-14
Project mention: Repeatable, Reboot Resilient Windows Environment Installations Made Easy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-25
I use Pode for my little projects. One mocks the api's of a device for testing a module with out having the device exposed to the internet for GitHub actions. Pode also works well under Linux.
Project mention: DNS (Windows/AD) Health-Checks and/or Utilities to confirm no errors/issues? | /r/sysadmin | 2023-07-11
Project mention: My package contains both 32-bits and 64-bits installer and weighs twice the size: any way to avoid such waste? | /r/chocolatey | 2023-05-28There are a couple on the Chocolatey Community Chocolatey Packages repository, but I'm not sure which ones off the top of my head.
For it was : https://github.com/dsccommunity/SqlServerDsc
powershell/VBO-Migrator at master · VeeamHub/powershell · GitHub
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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Index
What are some of the best open-source HacktoberFest projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | winget-pkgs | 7,988 |
| 2 | Empire | 3,895 |
| 3 | PowerShell | 2,379 |
| 4 | dbatools | 2,329 |
| 5 | PowerShell-Docs | 1,880 |
| 6 | PSKoans | 1,646 |
| 7 | Microsoft365DSC | 1,377 |
| 8 | BurntToast | 1,348 |
| 9 | boxstarter | 1,271 |
| 10 | GPOZaurr | 801 |
| 11 | Pode | 769 |
| 12 | PSWriteHTML | 774 |
| 13 | PSWinReporting | 689 |
| 14 | Testimo | 504 |
| 15 | ff2mpv | 472 |
| 16 | chocolatey-packages | 432 |
| 17 | windows-powershell-docs | 426 |
| 18 | PSTeams | 396 |
| 19 | ADEssentials | 393 |
| 20 | PSRule.Rules.Azure | 364 |
| 21 | SqlServerDsc | 349 |
| 22 | scoop-nerd-fonts | 340 |
| 23 | powershell | 261 |
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