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Top 23 PowerShell HacktoberFest Projects
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The way winget packages are managed reminds me of how FreeBSD manages all their package recipes in a monolithic source control repository named ports. For winget this is done as a Git repository of an absolutely massive, overwhelming scale.
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AppSignal
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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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PowerShell
PowerShell functions and scripts (Azure, Active Directory, SCCM, SCSM, Exchange, O365, ...) (by lazywinadmin)
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Microsoft Docs
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SaaSHub
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PSKoans
A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.
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boxstarter
Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages
Project mention: Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-30 -
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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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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SqlServerDsc
This module contains commands and DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI Report Server.
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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).
PowerShell HacktoberFest discussion
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winget package experience
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blob - A minimal notes manager written in C
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HWInfo and CPU-Z both compromised
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VS Code Terminal Shell Integration (Windows)
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Justin TV, Canli MAÇ İZLE
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Repeatable, Reboot Resilient Windows Environment Installations Made Easy
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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 | 11,125 |
| 2 | docker | 7,651 |
| 3 | Empire | 5,318 |
| 4 | PowerShell | 2,880 |
| 5 | PowerShell-Docs | 2,557 |
| 6 | Microsoft365DSC | 2,400 |
| 7 | sp-dev-list-formatting | 2,180 |
| 8 | Extras | 2,158 |
| 9 | PSKoans | 1,874 |
| 10 | boxstarter | 1,370 |
| 11 | GPOZaurr | 1,243 |
| 12 | Pode | 1,064 |
| 13 | PSWriteHTML | 1,016 |
| 14 | Testimo | 652 |
| 15 | ff2mpv | 644 |
| 16 | ADEssentials | 557 |
| 17 | chocolatey-packages | 476 |
| 18 | scoop-nerd-fonts | 460 |
| 19 | ios-safari-remote-debug-kit | 459 |
| 20 | PSRule.Rules.Azure | 449 |
| 21 | SqlServerDsc | 385 |
| 22 | powershell | 344 |
| 23 | ansible.windows | 299 |
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