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API Wrapper

HipChatAdmin

A module for simple integration with Atlassian HipChat via the HipChat API.

PSGitHub

Module contains commands to manage GitHub through its REST API.

Posh-GitHub

Cmdlets that expose the GitHub API.

Posh-Gist

Cmdlets for interacting with GitHub Gist.

PSGist

A module to work with GitHub Gists.

PSAppVeyor

A module to interact with the AppVeyor REST API.

PSSlack

Module for simple Slack integration.

In 2 lists

ConfluencePS

A module for interacting with Atlassian's Confluence in powershell (by using the API).

JiraPS

A module for interacting with Atlassian's Jira in powershell (by using the API).

PSTelegramAPI

Module for Telegram APIs

PSTeams

A module for sending formatted messages to a Microsoft Teams Channel.

PSURLScanio

A module for urlscan.io that is a service to scan and analyze websites.

Blogs

Windows PowerShell Blog

Official PowerShell Team Blog.

Learn PowerShell | Achieve More

Personal blog of Boe Prox who moderated for the Scripting Guy.

PowerShellMagazine

Awesome magazine.

PowerShellExplained

Personal blog of Kevin Marquette

Doug Finke

Author of PowerShell for Developers.

Mike F. Robbins

Microsoft MVP. SAPIEN Tech MVP. Co-author of Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition.

Adam the Automator

Engaging, technical content on all things automation, cloud computing and DevOps by Adam Bertram and friends.

Clear-Script

Personal blog of Joel (Sallow) Francis.

Books

Exploring PowerShell Automation

a free eBook sampler that gives you an overview of how to administer your environment.

PowerShell in Depth

The go-to reference for administrators. Every major shell technique, technology, and tactic is explained and demonstrated, providing a comprehensive reference to almost everything an admin would do in the shell.

Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition

The latest revision of the comprehensive reference guide.

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Third Edition

An innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. Just set aside one hour a day - lunchtime would be perfect - for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible.

Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Linux and macOS Edition

A task-focused tutorial for administering Linux and macOS systems using Microsoft PowerShell.

In 2 lists

Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches

A guide to the process of developing, testing, and deploying scripts, and the art of toolmaking.

Windows PowerShell Networking Guide

Language specific guide to Windows networking.

PowerShell Notes for Professionals

Compilation of notes and snippets.

PowerShell for SysAdmins: Workflow Automation Made Easy

Learn how to manage and automate your desktop and server environments.

Practical Automation with PowerShell

Learn how to build, organize, and share useful automations with PowerShell.

Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches

Learn how to automate SQL Server with PowerShell and the awesome dbatools module.

Tiny PowerShell Projects

A hands-on tutorial for system administration with PowerShell.

Build Tools

psake

Build automation tool inspired by rake (aka make in Ruby) and bake (aka make in Boo).

Invoke-Build

Build and test automation tool inspired by psake.

PSDeploy

Module built for the purpose of simplifying multiple types of deployments.

BuildHelpers

Variety of helper functions for CI/CD scenarios.

YDeliver

Build and deployment framework aimed at .NET projects.

Code and Package Repositories

GitHub

Looking for an Open Source PowerShell project? It's probably here.

PowerShell Gallery

Official PowerShell package repository, used by PowerShellGet.

PowerShell Test Gallery

A test version of the PowerShell Gallery. Useful when developing new modules.

Commandline Productivity

Dotenv

Provides directory specific environments through .env files, similar to direnv.

posh-git

Set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration.

PSReadLine

Bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell. Keeps history between sessions, adds reverse-history search and makes the commandline experience much better overall.

TabExpansionPlusPlus

PowerShell module to make customizing tab completion easier and add a library of custom argument completers.

Jump-Location

PowerShell cd that reads your mind. Autojump implementation for PowerShell. UNMAINTAINED

Zlocation

* z.sh implementation for PowerShell. Similar to Jump-Location.

thefuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command (by typing fuck).

In 9 listsDetails

PSFzf

a PowerShell module that wraps fzf, a fuzzy file finder for the command line.

pslinq

LINQ (LINQ2Objects) for PowerShell.

posh-with

Command prefixing for continuous workflow using a single tool.

poco

* peco implementation. Interactive filtering tool.

PSDirTag

DirTags are relative paths that appear as variables in the PowerShell prompt that update as you navigate. Saves keystrokes when navigating folder structures.

PSUtil

Designed to make the user's console life more convenient. It includes shortcuts, aliases, key bindings and convenience functions geared towards greater efficiency and less typing.

Microsoft.PowerShell.UnixCompleters

Get parameter completion for native Unix utilities. Requires zsh or bash.

PSDepend

PowerShell Dependency Handler

PSScriptTools

A set of of PowerShell functions you might use to enhance your own functions and scripts or to facilitate working in the console.

zoxide

A better way to navigate your filesystem. Written in Rust, cross-shell, and much faster than other autojumpers.

In 12 listsDetails

Communities

PowerShell.org

Forums, summits, community blog posts, and more.

/r/PowerShell

Reddit PowerShell community.

Slack PowerShell team

Large chat room dedicated to PowerShell. Bridged with #PowerShell on irc.freenode.net.

Research Triangle PowerShell User Group

Very active PowerShell and automation user group. Meets on first and third Wednesdays. All skill levels welcome.

Data

hjson-powershell

Simple powershell module for conversion between HJSON and JSON.

ImportExcel

Module to import/export Excel spreadsheets, without Excel.

powershell-yaml

PowerShell CmdLets for YAML format manipulation.

PSWriteHTML

PSWriteHTML is a PowerShell module allowing you to create HTML easily.

PSWritePDF

Module to create, edit, split, merge PDF files on Windows / Linux and MacOS.

PSWriteWord

Module to create Microsoft Word documents without Microsoft Word installed.

Documentation Helper

platyPS

Write PowerShell External Help in Markdown.

Invoke-CreateModuleHelpFile

PowerShell function to create a HTML help file for a module and all it's commands.

PScribo

PowerShell documentation framework what can create HTML, Word, text files based on PowerShell-based DSL (domain specific language).

Editors and IDEs

PowerShell Studio

Powerful PowerShell IDE with module, help, and user interface development tools, high DPI support and regular updates.

PowerShell for Visual Studio Code

Provides IntelliSense, code navigations, script analysis, script debugging, and more for the Visual Studio Code editor.

PowerShell ISE

Official PowerShell development environment included with Microsoft Windows.

ISE Steroids

Add-on for the PowerShell ISE which provides a rich set of additional features to complete the ISE development experience.

PowerShell Plus

All in one IDE.

SublimeText package

PowerShell language support for Sublime Text.

Atom package

PowerShell language support for Atom.

Frameworks

Carbon

DevOps for automating the configuration of Windows computers.

PowerShell PowerUp

Powerful server management framework.

PSCX

PowerShell Community Extensions - Useful set of additional cmdlets.

PSFramework

Easily add configurations, logging and more to your own PowerShell module.

Kansa

Incident response framework.

In 2 lists

Interactive Learning

PSKoans

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

Jupyter-PowerShell

Jupyter Kernel for PowerShell.

Logging

PoShLog

Cross-platform, extensible logging module built upon Serilog.

Module Development Templates

Plaster

Plaster is a template-based file and project generator written in PowerShell.

PSModuleDevelopment

Get started using module templates in 2 minutes with this module's low entry barrier and casual convenience.

Catesta

Catesta is a PowerShell module project generator. It uses templates to rapidly scaffold test and build integration for a variety of CI/CD platforms.

Package Managers

PowerShellGet

PowerShellGet is the Package Manager for PowerShell. Packages are available on PowerShellGallery.

Chocolatey

The package manager for Windows. The sane way to manage software on Windows.

In 5 listsDetails

GitLab

Use a GitLab server as Package Provider.

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows.

In 2 lists

PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit

Provides a set of functions to perform common application deployment tasks and to interact with the user during a deployment.

Parallel Processing

PoshRSJob

Provides an alternative to PSJobs with greater performance and less overhead to run commands in the background.

Invoke-Parallel

This function will take in a script or scriptblock, and run it against specified objects(s) in parallel.

PSThreadJob

Module for running concurrent jobs based on threads rather than processes.

Podcasts

PowerScripting

Weekly show run by Jon Walz and Hal Rottenberg.

The PowerShell News Podcast

This podcast is the latest news on PowerShell.

Security

PowerShellArsenal

Module used to aid a reverse engineer.

PowerTools

Collection of projects with a focus on offensive operations.

PowerForensics

Popular live disk forensics platform for windows.

In 6 listsDetails

PowerSploit

Post-exploitation framework.

In 7 listsDetails

PowerShellEmpire

Post-exploitation agent.

PSReflect

Easily define in-memory enums, structs, and Win32 functions in PowerShell. Useful for attacks, example.

BloodHound

Easily identify highly complex attack paths that would otherwise be impossible to quickly identify.

Nishang

Enables scripting for red team, penetration testing, and offensive security.

In 2 lists

Harness

Interactive remote PowerShell Payload.

Invoke-Obfuscation

PowerShell Obfuscator.

p0wnedShell

PowerShell Runspace Post Exploitation Toolkit.

In 2 lists

PESecurity

Module to check if a Windows binary (EXE/DLL) has been compiled with ASLR, DEP, SafeSEH, StrongNaming, and Authenticode.

Powershellery

Powershell scripts used for general hackery.

PowerUpSQL

Toolkit for Attacking SQL Server.

In 2 lists

SharePoint

AutoSPInstaller

Automated SharePoint 2010-2019 installation script.

SPReplicator

SPReplicator helps replicate SharePoint list data to/from CSV, SQL Server, SharePoint itself and more.

SharePoint2019Commands

PowerShell module to help you auto-load all SharePoint 2019 cmdlets.

SQL Server

dbatools

Helps SQL Server Pros be more productive with instance migrations and much more.

SimplySql

SimplySql is a module that provides an intuitive set of cmdlets for talking to databases that abstracts the vendor specifics. The basic pattern is to connect to a database, execute one or more sql.

Testing

Pester

PowerShell BDD style testing framework.

Format-Pester

PowerShell module for documenting Pester's results - exports Pester results to HTML, Word, text files using PScribo.

Selenium

PowerShell module to run a Selenium WebDriver.

PSScriptAnalyzer

PSScriptAnalyzer provides script analysis and checks for potential code defects in the scripts by applying a group of built-in or customized rules on the scripts being analyzed.

Themes

Oh-My-Posh

Tons of beautiful theme that can be enabled by one single command (includes many awesome powerline theme).

In 4 lists

PoshColor

Colour output from common commands with support for custom themes.

Powerline

PowerShell Classes for richer output and prompts.

Starship

The minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell.

In 5 listsDetails

UI

AnyBox

Designed to facilitate script input/output with an easily customizable WPF window.

BurntToast

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

Graphical

Module to plot colorful console 2D Graphs (Scatter, Bar, Line).

GraphicalTools

A module that mixes PowerShell and GUIs! - built on Avalonia and gui.cs.

PS-Menu

Simple module to render interactive console menu.

PSWriteColor

Write-Color is a wrapper around Write-Host allowing you to create nice looking scripts, with colorized output.

Terminal-Icons

Module to show file and folder icons in the terminal.

psInlineProgress

Write inline progress bars in PowerShell.

Videos

PowerShell Unplugged with Jeffrey Snover and Don Jones Ignite 2017

The inventor of PowerShell talking about "the latest and coolest PowerShell features to help you automate and manage the hybrid cloud". Focused on the PowerShell Community.

Getting Started With PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start

Jump starts series are for IT professionals with no previous experience with PowerShell, and want to learn it fast.

Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0

IT pros, take this advanced PowerShell course to find out how to turn your real time management and automation scripts into useful reusable tools and cmdlets.

What's New in PowerShell v5

Through description on some of the exciting new features in PowerShell version 5.0.

PowerShell Open Source Project

Collection of videos thoroughly demonstrate how PowerShell open source project runs on Linux.

PowerShell on Linux and Open Source

Brief introduction to PowerShell open source project and how it runs on Linux.

PowerShell

This show will include videos talking about the PowerShell automation platform, Desired State Configuration (DSC), infrastructure as code, and related concepts!! These videos are created by Trevor Sullivan, a Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell.

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches - Don Jones

Video companion to the book of the same title.

Best Practices for Script Design - Don Jones

Don Jones discusses script design principles and best practices.

PowerShell Toolmaking (1 of 3) - Don Jones

Toolmaking (1 of 3) - Don Jones.

PowerShell Toolmaking (2 of 3) - Don Jones

Toolmaking (2 of 3) - Don Jones.

PowerShell Toolmaking (3 of 3) - Don Jones

Toolmaking (3 of 3) - Don Jones.

Sophisticated Techniques of Plain Text Parsing - Tobias Weltner

Great reference for text parsing.

Monad Manifesto Revisited - Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover reflects on the beginnings of the language and where it's going.

AD Forensics with PowerShell - Ashley McGlone

A lot of AD related scripting and analysis techniques.

Windows PowerShell What's New in V2 - SAPIEN

Old but gold. Most of this is still very relevant.

All Things Microsoft PowerShell

Another general language reference.

Research Triangle PowerShell User Group YouTube Channel

large catalog of user group meetings and demos by community members. 150+ hours of content.

The anatomy of the Get-Help command in PowerShell

Software Engineer Tyler Leonhardt introduces the Powershell help system.

Webserver

Flancy

Web microframework for Windows PowerShell.

Pode

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

In 2 lists

Polaris

A cross-platform, minimalist web framework for PowerShell.

WebCommander

Run scripts and view results, in a friendly web GUI or via a web service.

Misc

DbgShell

A PowerShell front-end for the Windows debugger engine.

In 2 lists

m2cgen

A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native PowerShell code with zero dependencies.

In 16 listsDetails

poke

Crazy cool reflection module for PowerShell. Explore and invoke private APIs like nobody is watching. Useful for security research, testing and quick hacks.

WSLab

Windows Server rapid lab deployment scripts.

PoshBot

Powershell-based bot framework.

In 2 lists

PoShKeePass

Module for working with KeePass databases.

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Awesome Mac

jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

 This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.

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Open Source Mac Os Apps

serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps

Fresh★ 51k700 entriesPushed 20 days ago
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Awesome-Kubernetes

ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes

A curated list for awesome kubernetes sources :ship::tada:

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Awesome Nodejs

sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs

:zap: Delightful Node.js packages and resources [BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH SPAM AND LOW-QUALITY SUBMISSIONS, SUBMISSIONS ARE PAUSED TEMPORARILY]

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Awesome Home Assistant

frenck/awesome-home-assistant

A curated list of amazingly awesome Home Assistant resources.

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Awesome Ios

vsouza/awesome-ios

A curated list of awesome iOS ecosystem, including Objective-C and Swift Projects

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