Make exe

[stevens]

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Hi,

I have a script that checks health of a computer (cpu,memory,drive usages etc) and creates a nice html of it.
I'd like to be able to make it into an executable so when a user clicks on it, it pops up the html page.
Note that it takes some time to load so I'd also like it to show a window in which is mentioned what steps it's executing.
When report is finished, it should tell that the report is save on c:\reports\, please advise howto approach this or is there an example I could base my project on?
I could also use the powershell2exe but I guess I wouldn't have as much functionality as I would with PS Studio.

Please advise.
S.

[Alexander Riedel]

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This seems more like a general powershell question.
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[jvierra]

PS Studio does not add functionality to a script. It is just an editor and debugger as well as a script management and deployment tool.

The blogs on this site can show you many methods for doing what you ask. They have many examples.

See: https://www.sapien.com/blog/topics/user ... istrators/

[stevens]

Thanks. Figured it out meanwhile.
One more thing: I'd need to make the exe run with a specific account (local admin) and password.
How can I achieve this?

[stevens]

Ok, just found it, that would be "run mode". However I'd like to give a popup when it would not work showing "password not correct, default password is changed".
Then it would be nice if I could send a mail so I could be alerted that somebody changed the local admin password.
Another item: there are some local admin passwords, could there be a way to check one by one?

[stevens]

Question about running the exe as local admin: I have in my report: "Report ran by $env:username", I want that to be the user who executed the exe but the exe is running with Administrator privileges so is showing "Report ran by Administrator".
How can I solve this?

[jvierra]

If you run under alternate credentials then you are running as that user. You cannot give a standard user admin privileges. You can run a program as another user.

[stevens]

Ok thanks.
I can run my exe when adding the credentails als a local administrator but that limits the exe to those machines which have got the that administrator and password. When I launch it with a non admin account, it does not work. When I run the exe with right mouse the "run as administrator" it works.
I'd like the exe to run on any machine without the need to "run as administrator".

[jvierra]

I'd like the exe to run on any machine without the need to "run as administrator".

This is not possible as asked. YOU can use a domain admin account but the local admin would have to be identical on all systems to do other wise.

userid: localhost\Administrator
passwd: <same password on all systems>

[stevens]

Ok, fair enough. Tried it with a domain account which has local access on multiple pc's but that does not work, it just executes and then stops no error ....