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Top 23 PowerShell HacktoberFest Projects
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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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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Project mention: TomWright/dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-18
PowerShell[0]'s built-in Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility[1] module has commands to convert from/to JSON[2], CSV[3], a version of XML[4], or custom key/value pairs[5] into objects, which can then be manipulated. Combined with IO cmdlets such as Get-Content[6] and Set-Content[7], a fair chunk of flat-file storage should be able to be made mutable with PowerShell.
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[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
[3]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
[4]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
[5]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
[6]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
[7]: https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powe...
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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
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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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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 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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SaaSHub
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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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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 | 9,447 |
| 2 | docker | 7,029 |
| 3 | Empire | 4,626 |
| 4 | PowerShell | 2,731 |
| 5 | dbatools | 2,584 |
| 6 | PowerShell-Docs | 2,184 |
| 7 | Microsoft365DSC | 1,847 |
| 8 | PSKoans | 1,778 |
| 9 | BurntToast | 1,518 |
| 10 | boxstarter | 1,336 |
| 11 | GPOZaurr | 997 |
| 12 | Pode | 952 |
| 13 | PSWriteHTML | 928 |
| 14 | PSWinReporting | 715 |
| 15 | Testimo | 585 |
| 16 | ff2mpv | 570 |
| 17 | ADEssentials | 499 |
| 18 | chocolatey-packages | 463 |
| 19 | PSTeams | 422 |
| 20 | PSRule.Rules.Azure | 416 |
| 21 | scoop-nerd-fonts | 407 |
| 22 | SqlServerDsc | 374 |
| 23 | ios-safari-remote-debug-kit | 308 |
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