Update: LazyTS v1.1

I found some time over the week-end to fix some bugs and add a few things to LazyTS. You'll now be able to quickly search though the displayed data using the small highlight util and open a Remote Desktop connection using the Shadow feature (View and Control)

See this link for more information about RDP Shadow.

What is LazyTS ?

LazyTS is a PowerShell script to manage Sessions and Processes on local or remote machines. It also allows you to Disconnect/Stop sessions and Send Interactive message to one or more sessions.

This tool is using the module PSTerminalService which relies on the Cassia .NET Library.I used Sapien PowerShell Studio 2014 to which make life easier if you want to start building WinForms tools and add PowerShell code.

Feature requests and Bugs report
I also want to thank those who are sending me features request and reporting bugs ! This is greatly helpful !!! Merci!! You can contact me using info (at) lazywinadmin.com

2015/03/04 Update: Fixed issue when using RDP Shadow and getting the error "This computer name is invalid"
2015/03/02 Update: Fixed a small issue where you got the following message : Exception setting "Item": "Exception calling "Set_Item" with "2" argument(s): "Cannot set Column 'CurrentTime' to be null. Please use DBNull instead."" This was related to an issue with ConvertTo-DataTable

PowerShell GUI - LazyTS (Terminal Services Management)

LazyTS is a PowerShell script to manage Sessions and Processes on local or remote machines. It allows you to Query/Disconnect/Stop session(s), Query/Stop process(es) and Send Interactive message to one or more sessions.

This tool is using the module PSTerminalService which relies on the Cassia .NET Library.I used Sapien PowerShell Studio 2014 to which make life easier if you want to start building WinForms tools and add PowerShell code.

PowerShell Studio 2014 from Sapien released!

SAPIEN released a new version of their awesome tool PowerShell Studio a few days ago: SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2014.

PowerShell Studio is a Toolmaking Environment, a PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) tool that let you edit and debug scripts, create package, installer, executable and deployments. Also, the Enhanced Form Designer makes GUI design fast and easy, eliminating the need to manually write hundreds of lines of code.

This is for me one of the best tool on the market when you need to create PowerShell Scripts/advanced functions and Graphical User Interface.

The tool is listed at 389$ USD which comes with a one year subscription. Once this subscription expire you'll have to renew it in order to continue receiving new updates/features, otherwise you can continue using the tool without updates. Check out the following blog article for more details: Starting with the 2014 versions all SAPIEN software sold with subscription

In the following post I will talk about the changes I noticed in the PowerShell Studio 2014 compared to PowerShell Studio 2012. I listed the "What's new" items based on what I discovered so far, Some information might be inaccurate since I don't have any documentation yet.

I did not get a chance to play with package, installer and deployment options, so this will be covered in another blogpost.

PowerShell Studio 2012 - WinForms - GUI ToolMaking

In my previous post I showed how to create a quick PowerShell GUI to append some colored text in a RichTextBox control using Sapien PowerShell Studio 2012.

Today I will go a bit further and show you how to create a tool to query some information from a remote computer. I will first send the Output to Out-GridView cmdlet and then show you how to send it to a DataGridView control inside the GUI.

The tool will query Services, Processes and Shares from a Remote Computer.
You will need to specify the ComputerName and the Credential required to perform those actions. The goal is to show how to create something very simple so I did not write any Error Handling or any conditional code in this version.

One cool thing to mention when using PowerShell Studio 2012 is, if you add some controls like a DataGridView, a Listview or a ListBox, PowerShell Studio 2012 will add some functions to help you Load/Add/Refresh those controls. I will show you below in the part "Replacing the Out-Gridview by a DataGridView Control"

PowerShell/WinForm - Active Directory User Unlocker

An Active Directory account may be automatically locked, if the domain's security policy has been configured to lock accounts after a number of unsuccessful logon attempts.

If an account has been locked out, the lockouttime attribute will contain a Win32 time value that indicates when the account was locked.

An easy way to search for locked out accounts is an LDAP query similar to
(&(objectClass=user)(lockoutTime=>0))




You can integrate this query in the saved queries of your Active Directory Users and Computers MMC.

Description

The following script will use PowerShell to generate a WinForm and give you the ability to unlock account right from the interface. The goal is to do something simple and functional, nothing fancy.

The GUI was created using PowerShell Studio from SAPIEN. You can try this tool by going on Sapien.com

No Module Required

The beautiful part of it is that no Active Directory Module or Quest Active Directory Snapin are required
In my case I used ADSI: [ADSISearcher]

If you want to know more about ADSISearcher check this article from the Scripting Guy

Graphical User Interface

Under Windows 8

LazyWinAdmin v0.4 - Sneak Peek

Sneak peek : LazyWinAdmin v0.4

LazyWinAdmin is a PowerShell Script
This script generate a GUI/WinForm that was created using Sapien Powershell Studio.

I've been working in LWA for a while now.
This project of mine is mostly to help myself in my day to day Windows System Administrator tasks.

The goal of this tool is to centralize a lot of commands I use everyday inside a GUI and waist less time doing some tasks...
It also taking advantage of a couple of other tools Built-in in Windows: Computer Manager, Services.msc,...
And some non-built-in: Psexec, ADExplorer, SYDI-Server.vbs etc...

"General" tab contain my Top Used tools.

The "Check" button allow you to check the following connectivity item:

Ping (test-connection), Permission (test-path \\Computer\c$), RDP (Test of the port 3389), PsRemoting (PowerShell Remoting Enabled), OS (WMI), Uptime (WMI)

Autocomplete of the ComputerName. 
The script run a Get-Content on a Computers.txt when the form is loading.

New version : LazyWinAdmin 0.3.20120220

LazyWinAdmin was created using ONLY Powershell scripting language
I used SAPIEN PrimalForms to create the GUI.

This tool requires Powershell 2.0 and permissions on local or remote computers to be able to manage those.

 LazyWinAdmin 0.3.20120220

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-FIX some problem with Uptime Button
-FIX Modified The Service Query/start/stop
-ADD Restart Service Button
-ADD TextBox with AutoCompletion on some Services i added
-ERROR AutoCompletion in the TEXTBOX of Services seems to make the thing crash :-(
-REMOVE AutoCompletion in Service Tab, in ServiceName TextBox
-ADD Get Local Hosts File (Menu: LocalHost/Hosts File)
-ADD Get Remote Hosts File (in General Tab,need permission on remote c$)
-REMOVE Computers.txt auto-completion, seems buggy :-(
-FIX ENTER-PSSESSION button
-REPLACED some function by button with icons below ComputerName textbox
-MOVED the TEST-PSSESSION button to TOOL tab
-ADD the TEST-PSSESSION inside the ENTER-PSSESSION button. (2 in 1 :)
-MODIFY Inventory button and output (add more info)
-MODIFY IpConfig to use the one from BSonPosh module
-ADD button IPCONFIG, DISK USAGE
 -ADD START COMMANDS in General Tab
-ADD SYDI option (dropdown) to choose DOC or XML format.
-ADD Combobox in TOOLS Tab, and ADD the present tools in combobox
-REMOVE Buttons in TOOLS tab (the ones placed in Combobox)
-FIX the ContextMenuStrip on TextBox SERVERNAME.
-ADD option of type for SYDI (DOC or XML)
-FIX the names of all the variables (for Winforms controls only)
-ADD Qwinsta and Rwinsta to contextmenu of computername textbox
-FIX SYDI (DOC and XML now work) auto-save on Desktop of Current User and Open the folder
-FIX "Installed Applications" show the full names of each application,vendors and versions.
-ADD Connectivity Testing Button (Remote registry, ping, RPC, RDP, WsMan)
-ADD more info to ipconfig button