Program Launcher Add-In
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06/رجب/1428 02:44 صWhile working on my first add-in I got really annoyed at having a console and a remote desktop session open to check the event log and iis admin tools. So I whipped up a quick add-in that will let you launch any app you want from the console.
Let me know what you think, it is a little hard to do any serious testing with only the one WHS so let me know about any bugs, problems or requests.
http://www.danno.ca/blog/Quick+WHS+AddIn+Program+Launcher.aspx
Dan
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06/رجب/1428 03:13 صAbsolutely perfect! Just what I was looking for. Great work!
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06/رجب/1428 10:58 ص
That's quite handy! First thing I added was Task Manager
At the moment the add-in extracts the first icon in the exe to show. This is usually a 32bit colour (with alpha channel) icon, but the ListView being used to display the icon doesn't appear to support the alpha channel (and renders it black). A bit visually jarring. Regardless of how easily fixable this is, a suggestion would be to let us specify what icon to use for a particular shortcut.
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06/رجب/1428 12:15 مhornetfig - Yea I noticed that either the RDC or Win2k3 has problems with some of the icons, it refused to show the icon for any .msc's I added as well. I'll extract all the icons and let you pick which one you want to use.
Keep an eye out for another release next week.
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06/رجب/1428 03:13 مok had some time this morning (I created the time, I will pay for this later)
But give the new build a try if you are having problems with the icons
http://www.danno.ca/blog/WHS+Program+Launcher+Quick+Update.aspx -
06/رجب/1428 06:27 م
Thank you very much for this , its just what i wanted to start my cameras
kev
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06/رجب/1428 08:29 مdont you think this could be a little dangerus. I understand the point for doing it and it is a very good one at that, but the way the WHS team set up the WHS web Console was to limit the usablitly of the server, or else you mise as well just put RDC on your website. so now you are letting anyone who can access your server run any program they want on it. I will try it out but im just saying this could be very dangurous =).
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06/رجب/1428 08:34 مI considered that, but here was my though process on it;
You (the admin) should be the only one using the console. To access the console you need to know the admin password, thus you have access to the entire WHS box anyways. -
07/رجب/1428 12:43 صNail on the head, Dannoh. No other PC's on the network have the Admin password saved in console, so there is no danger.
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07/رجب/1428 02:56 ص
"WHS Tab" on the settings tab
This was create by your ADD IN -what is it for.
Version 1.0 caused a slow log on to the console and the browse function was bring up an instance of the desktop with no way to return to the console.
Both seems to have been fixed by version 1.1
Very handy Admin tool.
Thanks for sharing
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07/رجب/1428 03:39 صVery Nice!
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07/رجب/1428 05:49 ص
ROUZA wrote: "WHS Tab" on the settings tab
This was create by your ADD IN -what is it for.
Version 1.0 caused a slow log on to the console and the browse function was bring up an instance of the desktop with no way to return to the console.
Both seems to have been fixed by version 1.1
Very handy Admin tool.
Thanks for sharing
I found that vs 1.1 still does this. Once the Desktop has been selected it becomes default view and then Console is a separate window. Instead of the other way around. You can bring console back by going to the start tab in the desktop and then selecting console icon. It takes a few seconds though...
Yeah, I noticed that the log on is quite slow. But overall it is nice. I put a link to my services so I can turn off uTorrent if needed. A little buggy, but very cool and I'm sure he's not done yet ;-)
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07/رجب/1428 06:37 صVery handy indeed, well done Dan.
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07/رجب/1428 01:39 مYea I'm still working on some of the problems.
I totally forgot to remove the settings tab, my bad
As for the missing console, the best way to get it to be the default back to the console is to logoff the win2k3 session.
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07/رجب/1428 03:31 م
DannOh wrote: Yea I'm still working on some of the problems.
I totally forgot to remove the settings tab, my bad
As for the missing console, the best way to get it to be the default back to the console is to logoff the win2k3 session.
DanThe browse problem seems to have been fixed by Version 1.1 ,so I do not have the "desktop" issue again.
I would still like to know what was your intentention when you created the "WHS Tab".
Now I do not have to use RDP to the server.
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07/رجب/1428 10:09 مالمشرفThe WHS Tab was probably an accident. By default when you create a settings tab using the SDK that is the name that the SDK uses.
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15/رجب/1428 03:08 مYea that was on my mental check list to remove and somewhere along the way it fell off the list New version will be posted today or tomorrow with that fixed up.
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20/رجب/1428 02:32 مOk I've pushed a new 1.2 version up on my site, all that is addressed is removing the useless settings tab.
http://www.danno.ca/blog/WHS+Program+Launcher+12.aspx
Dan Forsyth -
21/رجب/1428 02:59 صVs 1.2 seems to work nicely. Thanks
I was wondering.... If you open the WHS Desktop using Program Launcher.. Then close out of Console... Does Program Launcher log us out of the WHS Admin user account? It seems to re-log in very quickly until after a reboot.
If you choose the Log Off option while on the WHS Desktop, you barely have time to click Yes....
Just wondering if that was ever really worked into this Add-In. -
21/رجب/1428 03:03 صWhen you run that, it is just executing the same commands that your 'Show Desktop' command in your quick launch bar. Nothing special.
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22/رجب/1428 03:59 صThanks DannOh. Makes sense now.
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26/رجب/1428 05:38 ص
Excellent add-in. The best one yet.
Dawg.
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14/شوال/1428 01:33 م
Great Add-in.
Just FYI. Now that you can get to Explorer from the console, you can also get to any computer's hard drive on the network.
I know that you can remote control to a client machine from the console, but if all you want is a couple of files from a pc, then all you need to do is open explorer in the console and type \\pcname\c$. It will ask you for a username and password and your in.
Nice.
Thanks.
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20/ذو القعدة/1428 08:14 ص
hy there
nice add-in, but I noticed a reproducable bug: I wanted to add a new shortcut to close the console ["c:\windows\system32\taskkill.exe" /IM homeserverconsole.exe] but after I click OK, the console crashes. after a restart, the shortcut is still not there. any reason for this? or could you hardcode this command?
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20/ذو القعدة/1428 12:49 مHey Bouncy, I will for sure take a look at that for you this weekend. Off the top of my head, a workaround might be to just create a KillConsole.bat file and add that to the launcher.
I assume right now I'm choking on the arguements to your command.
Dan
