AMA.HTA, an Application Maintenance Assistant, simple method to provide your operators a graphical interface to your scripted procedures. It is using HTA : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
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Embed your scripted procedure in target elements in the nANT build file http://nant.sourceforge.net including exec calls to your existing powershell, SQL etc.
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Write configuration targets in the conf folder to be used for differents configuration (production, test, dev ...)
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Values for parameters can be suggested to the operator using special list-all-xxx targets.
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AMA.hta displays configuration targets and action targets to the operators, including description for each of them. Only targets with descriptions are displayed, that's way you can create hidden targets.
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The tool is fool proof, showing the command and asking confirmation to the operator each time he click on the "run" button.
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The tool manage a simple log file naming convention and rotation, the log files includes the name of the operator executing the action.
TIP : the HTA runtime mshta.exe runs by default in 32bit mode, in some situation you may have to import the hta_64bit.reg file to make it run in 64 bit mode.
Important : you need to get nAnt and put binaries in the nant-0.92 folder to make it work.
