Helium

PowerShell Utilities for Windows System Administration

Assorted Utilities to make your day happier than inhaling a party balloon. Seriously, this is kind of a bug-out toolkit for a variety of sysadmin tasks. You may need to Google "bug-out".

🎯 Overview

This module provides a comprehensive collection of PowerShell cmdlets designed to make Windows system administration easier and more efficient. If there's more you want/need or anything you find lacking, annoying, aggravating, infuriating, discombobulating, or outright unsatisfying, drop a new Issue here. Thank you!

✨ Features

• 🔍 System Information - Get detailed information about Windows builds, device info, disk usage, and uptime
• 📊 Data Conversion - Convert between CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML tables, and Base64 formats
• 🌐 Network Tools - Check public IP addresses, manage WLAN profiles, and test SMTP addresses
• 🔐 Security & Secrets - Export/import secret stores and manage credentials
• 📁 File Operations - Split files, rename with patterns, and download from URLs
• 🖥️ Windows Management - Customize Windows 11, manage services, check reboot status, and update machines
• 📝 Text Processing - Search and replace in Excel workbooks, format phone numbers, and work with abbreviations
• 🔧 Browser Tools - Get browser profiles, check default browsers, and export bookmarks
• 📦 Module Management - Maintain PS resources, import functions from Gists, and get module help
• 🎨 UI Tools - Display message boxes, input boxes, and grid selection dialogs
• 🐙 GitHub Tools - Search Repositories and Gists for items containing matching strings

🚨 Security Notice

Version 1.2.11 incorporates changes for Invoke-WebRequest to address vulnerabilities as reported by CVE-2025-54100

Requirements

• PowerShell 5.1 or higher (PowerShell 7+ recommended)
• Windows operating system for all commands
• Linux or MacOS operating system for some commands
• Appropriate system permissions for certain operations

Installation

From PowerShell Gallery (Recommended)

Install-Module -Name Helium -Scope CurrentUser

Or using PSResourceGet:

Install-PSResource Helium

From GitHub

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/Skatterbrainz/Helium.git
   cd Helium

2. Import the module

   Import-Module ./helium.psd1

Usage

Import the module and explore available cmdlets:

# Import the module
Import-Module Helium

# Get all available cmdlets
Get-Command -Module Helium

# Get help for a specific cmdlet
Get-Help Import-CsvCompact -Full

# Example: Get Windows build information
Get-WindowsBuild

# Example: Convert CSV to JSON
ConvertFrom-CsvToJson -Path data.csv

# Example: Check for pending reboot
Test-RebootPending

📖 Documentation

Full documentation for each cmdlet is available in the docs directory:

• Get-WindowsBuild - Get Windows build information
• Convert-CsvToJson - Convert CSV files to JSON
• Test-RebootPending - Check if system reboot is pending
• Get-BrowserProfile - Get browser profile information
• And many more...

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

• Report bugs
• Suggest new features or cmdlets
• Improve documentation
• Submit pull requests

Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Skatterbrainz

• GitHub: @Skatterbrainz

Acknowledgments

• Built for PowerShell on Windows
• Thanks to all contributors and users who have provided feedback and suggestions
• Special thanks to Rich Preston for the Get-CMLog function

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For complete version history, see revisions.md.