Are there any Graphical PowerShell tools?
- by Dai
As a developer for the .NET platform, I like to "explore" a platform, framework or API by browsing through the API documentation which explains what everything is - everything is covered and when I use tools like Reflector or Object Browser then I get to know for certain what I'm working with. When I'm writing my own software I can use tools like the Object Test Bench to explore and work with my classes directly. I'm looking for something similar, but for PowerShell - and ones that avoid text-mode.
PowerShell is nice, and there are a lot of cool "discoverability"-things it has, such as the "Verb-Noun" syntax, however when I'm working with Exchange Server, for example, I wanted to get a list of AD Permissions on a Receive Connector and I got this list:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-ADPermission "Client SVR6" -User "NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" | fl
User : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Identity : SVR6\Client SVR6
Deny : False
AccessRights : {ExtendedRight}
IsInherited : False
Properties :
ChildObjectTypes :
InheritedObjectType :
InheritanceType : All
User : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Identity : SVR6\Client SVR6
Deny : False
AccessRights : {ExtendedRight}
IsInherited : False
Properties :
ChildObjectTypes :
InheritedObjectType :
InheritanceType : All
User : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Identity : SVR6\Client SVR6
Deny : False
AccessRights : {ExtendedRight}
IsInherited : False
Properties :
ChildObjectTypes :
InheritedObjectType :
InheritanceType : All
User : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Identity : SVR6\Client SVR6
Deny : False
AccessRights : {ExtendedRight}
IsInherited : False
Properties :
ChildObjectTypes :
InheritedObjectType :
InheritanceType : All
User : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Identity : SVR6\Client SVR6
Deny : False
AccessRights : {ExtendedRight}
IsInherited : False
Properties :
ChildObjectTypes :
InheritedObjectType :
InheritanceType : All
User : NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
Identity : SVR6\Client SVR6
Deny : True
AccessRights : {ReadProperty}
IsInherited : True
Properties : {ms-Exch-Availability-User-Password}
ChildObjectTypes :
InheritedObjectType : ms-Exch-Availability-Address-Space
InheritanceType : Descendents
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>
Note how the first few entries contain identical text - there's no way to tell them apart easily. But if there was a GUI presumably it would let me drill-down into the differences better.
Are there any tools that do this?
