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".
Install-Module helium
Install-PSResource helium- 1.3.0
- Added: Export-Bookmarks
- 1.2.11
- Updated: Functions that rely on Invoke-WebRequest updated to add -UseBasicParsing
- 1.2.10
- Updated: Start-WaitTimer
- 1.2.9
- Updated: Export-SecretStore, Import-SecretStore
- 1.2.8
- Added: Import-CsvCompact
- 1.2.7
- Added: Rename-FileParse, Rename-FilePrefix
- 1.2.6
- Added: Export-SecretStore
- 1.2.5
- Added: Invoke-PsResourceMaintenance
- 1.2.4
- Added: Get-CMLog
- 1.2.3
- Added: Get-Browsers
- Updated: Get-BrowserProfile
- 1.2.2
- Updated: Get-BrowserProfile
- 1.2.1
- Updated: Get-PublicIPv4Address
- 1.2.0
- Omg: I don't know what happened here
Version 1.2.11 incorporates the change for Invoke-WebRequest to address vulnerabilities as reported by CVE-2025-54100
Using the built-in PowerShell Get-Command cmdlet to list all the goodies in this module:
Get-Command -Module heliumGet-Help Import-CsvCompact -FullDocumentation is also Online Here
Bugs? Feature requests? Please Submit them Here
- 1.2.11
- Updated Get-PublicIPv4Address to address CVE-2025-54100
- Updated Start-UrlDownloadFile to address CVE-2025-54100
- 1.2.10
- Removed psIni as a module prerequisite during import
- 1.2.9
- Added Export-SecretStore
- Added Import-SecretStore
- Updated all Help document files to latest markdown format
- 1.2.8
- Added Import-CsvCompact
- 1.2.7
- Added Rename-FilePrefix and Rename-FileParse
- 1.2.6
- Added Export-SecretStore, and Import-SecretStore
- Retired Invoke-Grep
- 1.2.5
- Added Invoke-PsResourceMaintenance
- 1.2.4
- Added Get-CMLog (forked from Rich Preston just for convenience)
- 1.2.3
- Updated Get-BrowserProfile to include InstallType (mainly for Linux)
- Added Get-Browsers
- 1.2.2
- Get-BrowserProfile
- Added Firefox and Brave and support on Linux and Windows 11
- Added Flatpak detection on Linux
- Added Edge reporting for Windows 11
- Get-BrowserProfile
- 1.2.1
- I have no idea what happened from 1.1.17 to 1.2 or 1.2.1. It must have been interesting.
- 1.1.16
- Added Get-Calendar, Clear-IISLogs, and Get-HoHoHo
- Renamed Replace-ExcelWorkbookText to Edit-ExcelWorkbookText
- Fixed module-loading bugs in Edit-ExcelWorkbookText, and Find-ExcelWorkbookText
- 1.1.15
- Added Find-ExcelWorkbookText, Replace-ExcelWorkbookText
- 1.1.13
- Renamed Invoke-Maintenance to Update-Machine
- 1.1.12
- Added Get-ScriptFunctionComments
- 1.1.11
- tbd
- Earlier
- Who knows. I can't remember my kids names sometimes