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.

• API Wrapper
• Blogs
• Books
• Build Tools
• Code and Package Repositories
• Commandline Productivity
• Communities
• Data
• Documentation Helper
• Editors and IDEs
• Frameworks
• Interactive Learning
• Logging
• Module Development Templates
• Package Managers
• Parallel Processing
• Podcasts
• Security
• SharePoint
• SQL Server
• Testing
• Themes
• UI
• Videos
• Webserver
• Misc

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches - A guide to the process of developing, testing, and deploying scripts, and the art of toolmaking.
• The Monad Manifesto, Annotated - Jeffrey Snover - Design and theory behind the language from its creator.
• Windows PowerShell Networking Guide - Language specific guide to Windows networking.
• Why PowerShell? - Warren Frame & Don Jones - Use cases for the language.
• The Big Book of PowerShell Gotchas - Don Jones - Excellent guide to avoiding common pitfalls.
• The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling - Dave Wyatt - Great reference for error handling techniques.
• Secrets of PowerShell Remoting - On all things remoting. Workflow, fan-out, etc.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.
• PowerShell Plus - All in one IDE.
• SublimeText package - PowerShell language support for Sublime Text.
• Atom package - PowerShell language support for Atom.

• 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.

• PSKoans - A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.
• Jupyter-PowerShell - Jupyter Kernel for PowerShell.

• PoShLog - Cross-platform, extensible logging module built upon Serilog.

• 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.

• 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.
• GitLab - Use a GitLab server as Package Provider.
• Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
• PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit - Provides a set of functions to perform common application deployment tasks and to interact with the user during a deployment.

• 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.

• PowerScripting - Weekly show run by Jon Walz and Hal Rottenberg.
• The PowerShell News Podcast - This podcast is the latest news on PowerShell.

• 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.
• 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.
• Harness - Interactive remote PowerShell Payload.
• Invoke-Obfuscation - PowerShell Obfuscator.
• p0wnedShell - PowerShell Runspace Post Exploitation Toolkit.
• 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.

• AutoSPInstaller - Automated SharePoint 2010-2019 installation script.
• Client-side SharePoint - API for SharePoint 2010, 2013 and Online.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Oh-My-Posh - Tons of beautiful theme that can be enabled by one single command (includes many awesome powerline theme).
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Universal Dashboard - Cross-platform module for developing websites and REST APIs.

• DbgShell - A PowerShell front-end for the Windows debugger engine.
• m2cgen - A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native PowerShell code with zero dependencies.
• 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.
• PoShKeePass - Module for working with KeePass databases.