Awesome PowerShell

A curated list of delightful PowerShell packages and resources.

PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool that is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell and an associated scripting language.

Contents

• Blogs
• Build Tools
• Code and Package Repositories
• Commandline Productivity
• Communities
• Frameworks
• Editors and IDEs
• Package Managers
• Parallel Processing
• Podcasts
• Security
• Testing
• Themes
• Videos
• Webserver
• SharePoint
• SQL Server
• Misc

Blogs

• Windows PowerShell Blog - Official PowerShell Team Blog.
• Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog - Popular Microsoft blog.
• Learn Powershell | Achieve More - Personal blog of Boe Prox who moderated for the Scripting Guy.
• PowerShellMagazine - Awesome magazine.
• Doug Finke - Author of PowerShell for Developers.
• Mike F. Robbins - Microsoft MVP. SAPIEN Tech MVP. Co-author of Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition.

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 Code Repository - Wide variety of PowerShell code from snippets to modules.
• PowerShell Gallery - Offical PowerShell package repository, used by PowerShellGet.
• TechNet Gallery - Wide variety of PowerShell code from snippets to modules.

Commandline Productivity

• 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.
• Zlocation - z.sh implementation for PowerShell. Similar to Jump-Location.
• thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command (by typing fuck).
• pslinq - LINQ (LINQ2Objects) for Powershell.

Communities

• PowerShell.com - Forums, blog posts, and more.
• 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.
• Twitter #PowerShell - Vibrant PowerShell community; great way to keep up with news and blog content.

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.
• PoshTools for Visual Studio - Provides IntelliSense, script debugging, and Pester testing support for PowerShell to Visual Studio.
• 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.
• PowerGui - Powerful IDE for editing and executing scripts locally and remotely.
• 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 - Powerfull server management framework.
• PSCX - Useful set of additional cmdlets.
• PlatyPS - Write PowerShell External Help in Markdown.

Package Managers

• PowershellGet - PowerShellGet is the Package Manager for PowerShell https://www.PowerShellGallery.com
• PsGet - Set of commands to install modules from central directory, local file or from the web.
• Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows. The sane way to manage software on Windows.

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.

Podcasts

• PowerScripting - Weekly show run by Jon Walz and Hal Rottenberg.

Security

• File System Security - Allows a much easier management of permissions on files and folders.
• 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.
• PowerSploit - Post-exploitation framework.
• PowerShellEmpire - Post-exploitation agent.
• PSReflect - Easily define in-memory enums, structs, and Win32 functions in PowerShell. Useful for attacks, example.

Testing

• Pester - Powershell BDD style testing framework.

Themes

• Oh-My-Posh - Tons of beautiful theme that can be enabled by one single command (includes many awesome powerline theme).
• Powerline - PowerShell Classes for richer output and prompts.

Videos

• 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.

Webserver

• Flancy - Web microframework for Windows PowerShell.
• NancyPS - Nancy, self-hosted in PowerShell, with script method handlers.
• PoSH Server - Secure, flexible and lightweight web server to meet your requirements.
• WebCommander - Run scripts and view results, in a friendly web GUI or via a web service.

SharePoint

• AutoSPInstaller - Automated SharePoint 2010/2013 installation script.
• Client-side SharePoint - API for SharePoint 2010, 2013 and Online.

SQL Server

• dbareports - Gather, store and display your SQL Server estate data.
• dbatools - Instance migrations and best practice implementations.

Misc

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