HTAs

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Good evening!

Posting this question to both news groups as I believe both are applicable.

Just wanted to ask if anyone is using HTAs? For simple Systems
Administration stuff. Thinking of creating some HTAs for various tasks,
using ADSI. Just in the beginning phases of seeing if this is even used in
the real world.

Still very new to this side of the fence so I might be trying to put the
square toy in the round hole!
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Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

 

[Jim Vierra]

Well- I do it quite a bit. It's useful for generating reports and gathering
user input. Can be as fancy as you want to make it once you become
proficient.

I use FrontPage to start an HTA. I build it as a stand alone HTML file an
then convert when it is working the way I like.

All the HTA tag does is to allow the HTML to be executed by MSHTA and bypass
some of the security for activex and objects.

Sometimes just generating HTML output from a script is enough without the
hta. Just do a WScript.Run("file.htm") on a file created with the FSO an
you have an instant formatted report.

See Script Center at TechNet.

Drop in over at ScriptingAnswers.com a site run be Don Jones - another one
of you MS MVPs. We could use an AD guy there.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Jim,

I will take a spin over to that web site....

Thank you for your input. I might be asking a question or two here and
there....if you do not mind!

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

 

[Mark-Allen Perry]

We're using quite a bit of HTA here on a project in Vevey. It handles all
the system information input, system build under WinPE, and then adding
Roles. Some of the Roles are IIS, File & Print, DC promotion, DMZ build,
etc. HTA can use 'common' VBS, and call out to other HTAs, VBSs, and WSFs.

But the documentation for HTA creation in the MSDN Library is a bit
confusing. Took a while to get a list of all the docs we needed for
development.

Hope this helps.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Mark,

Thanks! I am in the process of determining how to do some things and HTAs
seem like the right way to so them. Just wanted to get a feel if others are
using HTAs.

Hope that all is well in Switzerland!

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

 

[Mark-Allen Perry]

Cool. HTA is very nice but make sure you're got MSDN handy.

And CH is very nice now.

cheers,

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Mark-Allen Perry
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland
mark-allen_AT_mvps_DOT_org