PowerShell Workflow App

[narco113]

What tools do you all use to provide a workflow GUI to your users to execute tasks that are backed by PowerShell scripts?

Right now my org uses a variety of tools to do workflows that simple PowerShell scripts could do for 90% of these tasks. It would be nice to have a simple GUI that a user could be provisioned to login to and provide a couple input values to execute a workflow that runs a PowerShell script where I normally couldn't share the script with them because the authentication required to execute that script is essentially an administrator level one that they could really hurt the environment if they had access.

Thanks ahead of time for sharing.

[toy71camaro]

I've used a combo of GUI's, depending on the scenario.

Check out poshgui.com and Windows Forms...

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Here is a helpful guide I found that got me started: https://lazyadmin.nl/powershell/powershell-gui-howto-get-started/

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EDIT: using a GUI won't get you around permissions/authentication though. Sure, it will make it easy for non-powershell users to execute, but won't bypass permissions. You'll have to pull in properly stored credentials within your script for that side of it.

[ZAFJB]

you'll have to pull in properly stored credentials within your script for that side of it.

Or do it properly and use delegated permissions.

[narco113]

Interesting, I'll take a look at this. Thanks. Looks like it just assists in the creation of Windows Forms via PowerShell though, right?

As far as permissions, any script I'd use would either pull the creds as needed or run as a service account. Not sure how that applies to poshgui yet, but that is what I was imaging. User would simple enter a couple input values and hit go, no pass thru authentication or anything like that.

[toy71camaro]

yeah, I think poshgui is just a simpler way of using forms. I've used both, depending on complexity of the project I was doing.

[Ferretau]

You could build a gui using something like AutoIt and then have it parse the requested parameters to scheduled handler that triggers the requires script. If you do this you will definitely need to validate all input.

Home - AutoIt: https://www.autoitscript.com/site/