The official PowerShell Gallery is a public repository with thousands of free PowerShell modules. Instead of reinventing the wheel, it makes total sense to browse the gallery for reusable code that you can use as-is or as a starting point for your own projects. Let’s take a look at how you can discover and download PowerShell code from the PowerShell Gallery.
You can use its graphical frontend at https://powershellgallery.com to search for code, but a better and more powerful way is the Find-Module cmdlet. If you are looking for ways to manage Office 365 via PowerShell, here is a line that dumps all modules with the “Office” keyword in its name:
Name CompanyName PublishedDate Description
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OfficeOnlineServerDsc {PowerShellTeam, gaelcolas, dsccommunity} 03.04.2020 22:01:30 The OfficeOnlineSe...
Office365DnsChecker rhymeswithmogul 30.03.2020 14:15:00 Checks a domain's ...
Microsoft.Graph.DevicesApps.OfficeConfiguration msgraph-sdk-powershell 17.03.2020 01:24:39 Microsoft Graph Po...
IntraOffice.ContentRepository.Powershell rderegt 06.03.2020 14:26:35 Client library for...
Office365DSC NikCharleboisPFE 04.03.2020 23:13:30 This DSC module is...
Office365PowershellUtils joshn-whatcomtrans.net 03.03.2020 00:26:59 A collection of cm...
Office365Cmdlets CData 20.02.2020 20:13:29 CData Cmdlets for ...
MSPOffice365Tools majorwitteman 13.02.2020 20:26:15 Collection of Offi...
AdminToolbox.Office365 {TaylorLee, Taylor_Lee} 27.01.2020 15:26:36 Functions for work...
OfficeAddinManager DarrenDK 17.12.2019 07:10:08 Module for managin...
PSP-Office365 powershellpr0mpt 20.11.2019 10:57:08 Helper module to g...
Office365MailAliases Cloudenius 17.11.2019 11:57:07 This module contai...
Office365Toolkit PatrickJD84 03.09.2019 03:01:36 A collection of sc...
Office365.Connect nicomartens 22.08.2019 07:58:43 Uses the Windows C...
Office365TokenGet junecastillote 17.07.2019 03:21:07 Helps you acquire ...
BitTitan.Runbooks.Office365SecurityAndCompliance.Beta BT_AutomationEngineers 14.05.2019 08:41:04 PowerShell module ...
BitTitan.Runbooks.Office365SecurityAndCompliance BT_AutomationEngineers 12.03.2019 07:22:10 PowerShell module ...
Office365Module Giertz 24.01.2019 22:56:08 test for ez
ZIM.Office365 Mikezim 14.12.2018 11:53:54 Provides a set of ...
MZN.Office365 michael.zimmerman 14.12.2018 08:10:26 Provides a set of ...
JumpCloud.Office365.SSO Scottd3v 14.06.2018 16:13:13 Functions to enabl...
Office365GraphAPI chenxizhang 12.06.2017 15:14:57 Office 365 Graph A...
Office365Connect Gonjer 18.05.2017 21:13:41 Office365Connect i...
RackspaceCloudOffice {mlk, paul.trampert.rackspace} 28.09.2016 14:34:25 REST client for th...
Office365 StevenAyers 16.07.2016 10:53:36 For Microsoft Part...
OfficeProvider abaker 01.03.2016 21:00:35 OfficeProvider all...
The list includes the publisher and module description, and it sorts the modules from new to old. The PublishedDate column indicates whether a module was added to the Gallery recently so you can immediately see whether it is well maintained and worth a look.
If you find a particular module interesting, dump all of its metadata:
PS> Find-Module -Name Office365PowershellUtils -Repository PSGallery | Select-Object -Property *
Name : Office365PowershellUtils
Version : 1.1.5
Type : Module
Description : A collection of cmdlets for managing Office365
Author : R. Josh Nylander
CompanyName : joshn-whatcomtrans.net
Copyright : (c) 2012 WTA. All rights reserved.
PublishedDate : 03.03.2020 00:26:59
InstalledDate :
UpdatedDate :
LicenseUri :
ProjectUri :
IconUri :
Tags : {PSModule}
Includes : {Function, RoleCapability, Command, DscResource...}
PowerShellGetFormatVersion :
ReleaseNotes :
Dependencies : {}
RepositorySourceLocation : https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2
Repository : PSGallery
PackageManagementProvider : NuGet
AdditionalMetadata : @{summary=A collection of cmdlets for managing Office365; versionDownloadCount=33; ItemType=Module;
copyright=(c) 2012 WTA. All rights reserved.; PackageManagementProvider=NuGet; CompanyName=Whatcom
Transportation Authority; SourceName=PSGallery; tags=PSModule; created=03.03.2020 00:26:59 +01:00;
description=A collection of cmdlets for managing Office365; published=03.03.2020 00:26:59 +01:00;
developmentDependency=False; NormalizedVersion=1.1.5; downloadCount=296;
GUID=c6b26555-2b5f-45bc-affe-ef1c31580df3; lastUpdated=02.04.2020 16:50:22 +02:00; Authors=R. Josh
Nylander; updated=2020-04-02T16:50:22Z; Functions=Find-MsolUsersWithLicense
Update-MsolLicensedUsersFromGroup Update-MsolUserUsageLocation Change-ProxyAddress Add-ProxyAddress
Remove-ProxyAddress Set-ProxyAddress Sync-ProxyAddress Test-ProxyAddress Get-ProxyAddressDefault
Enable-SecurityGroupAsDistributionGroup Disable-SecurityGroupAsDistributionGroup Start-DirSync
Get-NextDirSync Suspend-UserMailbox Resume-UserMailbox Test-Mailbox Get-MailboxMemberOf
Clear-MailboxMemberOf Use-Office365 Export-PSCredential Import-PSCredential; isLatestVersion=True;
PowerShellVersion=3.0; IsPrerelease=false; isAbsoluteLatestVersion=True; packageSize=16635; FileList=Office3
65PowershellUtils.nuspec|Function_Connect-Office365.ps1|Office365PowershellUtils.psd1|Office365PowerShellUti
ls_mod.psm1|PSCredentials.psm1|README|SampleMigrationScripts\Monitor-MoveStats.ps1|SampleMigrationScripts\Re
sume-FirstFiveSuspended.ps1|SampleMigrationScripts\Set-MailboxTimeZone.ps1|SampleMigrationScripts\Set-Remote
RoutingAddress.ps1|SampleMigrationScripts\Set-RetentionPolicy.ps1|SampleMigrationScripts\Set-RoleAssignmentP
olicy.ps1; requireLicenseAcceptance=False}
If you are just interested in the source code, use Save-Module and download the module to a folder of your choice:
# path to source code $path = "c:\sources" # name of module to investigate $moduleName = "Office365PowershellUtils" # create folder $null = New-Item -Path $path -ItemType Directory # download module Save-Module -Name $moduleName -Path $path -Repository PSGallery # open folder with sources explorer (Join-Path -Path $path -ChildPath $moduleName)
If you’d like to actually use the module as-is, use Install-Module instead:
PS> Install-Module -Name Office365PowershellUtils -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery
