Hi gang,

I'm at TechEd at the PowerShell demo station with an admin asking if it is possible to embed PowerShell script within an HTML page.  I know I've seen something in this area in the blogosphere before but can't think of where right now.  Anyone have any input or links that they can share?

Kirk out.

Kirk, go talk to the /N guys...I can't say any more.

Well, how advanced are we talking about?  You're going to need something dynamic like ASP or ASP.NET to be able to make either a call to powershell.exe or the PowerShell APIs.

--PowerShell APIs, see the 3 part series here:
http://devinfra-us.blogspot.com/2008/05/powershell-and-aspnet-part-3.html

--powershell.exe:
Just simply wrapping some of the code (in an ASP page with the <% and %>) from here might do:
http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2006/12/26/more-fun-with-scheduled-powershell/

Since you're looking to run powershell.exe, you may be able to use just about any "interface" though to run powershell.exe with the proper args.

 

 

the problem (other than powershell preformance) is that powershell can't sufficently be sandboxed, so its dangerous, but still maybe useful for admin use if there is definate authentication going on in the host app and it gets proxied.

This one, too.
http://www.leastprivilege.com/HostingPowerShellInASPNET.aspx

All I know is -- if you want PowerShell in ASP.Net, you should:
1) do it via the hosting APIs (and should look at the new stuff in v2 CTP)
2) not allow users to choose which cmdlets to run
3) validate input carefully

I blogged about a session I did at OpenForce '07 last year that showed powershell running as a console inside DotNetNuke.  I subsequently started an project on Codeplex that hosts the code from my session.  You should be able to get what you need from that.  The nice thing about hosting it as a module inside DotNetNuke is that DNN has a strong security model that allows you to lock down access to the powershell module. 

I hope to find some time this summer to get back to that module and update it for PowerShell v2.  I am also planning to change the console to a SilverLight based console since it will allow for a more streamlined UI that is closer to a desktop experience.