Interacting with powershell

[ronin2040]

Ive looked through a number of topics trying to get this to work to no avail. Basically, I have some powershell scripts that I want to tie to a GUI, and the commands have to be powershell (theyre active-directory commands that have to be issued through a specific snap-in; doing them straight through AD will fail).

I am able to interact with a normal command prompt using stdinwrite and stdoutread, but using the exact same code for powershell simply doesnt work. I wanted to see if anyone has dealt with / solved this issue. Heres an example of the code Im using:

Global $data, $title, $pid
$pid = Run(@ComSpec, @SystemDir, @SW_SHOW, $STDIN_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD) ;WORKS

;;$pid = Run("C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit", @SystemDir, @SW_SHOW, $STDIN_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD) ; DOES NOT WORK

If ProcessWait($pid, 5) Then
     _StdIn('help /?')
     _StdIn('ping -w 500 -n 1 8.8.8.8')
     sleep(2000)
     _StdOut()
EndIf
Exit



Func _StdIn($input)
     If Not ProcessExists($pid) Then Return
     StdinWrite($pid, $input & @CRLF)
EndFunc


Func _StdOut()
     If Not ProcessExists($pid) Then Return
     $output = StdOutRead($pid, 65500)
     ConsoleWrite($output)
EndFunc

Edited December 15, 2012 by ronin2040

[ronin2040]

Bump, anyone have any ideas?

[water]

(theyre active-directory commands that have to be issued through a specific snap-in; doing them straight through AD will fail).

Why do you think the AD commands will fail? There is (almost) nothing you can't do with my AD UDF.

[ronin2040]

The organization I work for uses Quest Active Roles to track changes. From a technical level, I believe you get "access is denied" when attempting to use regular powershell AD commands, and from an administrative, we would want any script we use to have the history recorded by ActiveRoles.

Using powershell I can add the quest.activeroles.admanagement pssnapin, which gives access to a whole bunch of cmdlets (see here: http://wiki.powergui.org/index.php/QAD_cmdlets_reference).

If there is a way to issue those particular commands natively through autoit, I would love to do so; but as it is I already have a powershell script written to do a number of different functions, and want a GUI over top of it.

[water]

I see.

Looks like your problem was described - unfortunately there was no solution.

[ronin2040]

Looks like the "solution" unfortunately is to build the GUI directly with winforms, like here.

http://bytecookie.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/gui-creation-with-powershell-the-basics/

Probably will work better in the long run anyways, just not as familiar with it.

[water]

Looks like a lot of fun

[ptrex]

@ronin2040

Maybe this is a good start

Rgds

ptrex