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[mattan]

Anybody with experience in developing his/her own control panel. Can this be done purely with ASP??

[Tim Greer]

Yes, most definitely it can be. If you aren't completely familiar with ASP, you can check out a few books by WROX, or O'reilly.

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[mattan]

as some of these require access to the registry. but a pure ASP solution?? ummphh...

I wonder if there are any GPL NT control panels out there, if anyone is interested in starting one

[kunal]

I dunt think we are ever gonna see any Microsoft based GPL products.

[BC]

Not necessarily, as I know of many ASP-based GPL products (check out HotScripts's collection of ASP scripts and you'll find quite a few).

That said, if WebExpose can do it, then theoretically so can you

[mattan]

I really like to their control panel. Do you have any idea as to how they've built it and using what??

[BC]

I can only make educated guesses, but I would think Philip used Visual Interdev to code the ASP, and made a great use of the Response/System objects to consistently access the directories on the server.... Quite a lot of if/else/loop logic too....

[mattan]

While ASP can act as the glue, it does appear at the very least with ASP 3 that you will still need a component registered in order to access parts of the server like the registry

http://www.asptoday.com/articles/19990916.htm

[MattF]

A control panel with ASP (even on IIS 4) is easily feasible. You may need the odd component, such as AspExecute etc..., but nothing specific or expensive.

I was going to build one myself, figured out how, and then realised that NT sucked.

[mattan]

it turns out that you CAN build a control panel almost purely out of ASP on IIS 5 using something called "IIS ADMIN OBJECTS" and the ADSI... and with the right amount Security rights a lot of these can be done

If only I could get my hands on some sample code, this would give me an idea as to how to get going.

For startes, I would like to build at the very least a simple control panel that would allow simple stuff like resetting the the web service, setting file permission, checking disk space, frontpage extensions, creating new FTP and mail accounts...ummphhh..maybe I'm asking too much for an NT machine :-)

[MattF]

Continue with your research on ADSI....

[brain2b]

Since I administer a server on a w2k box. I have been looking for a solution to create new accounts on iis and setup of them without having to manually go through all the work. I'm lazy what can i say. :-) After reading about iis admin objects, i'm working on writing something in asp right now. I will let everybody know when i get something whipped up. In the meantime does anybody have or know of any pre-made asp scripts that create ftp/www accounts in iis5?

[mattan]

but mostly you have to pay for it. And most the these are in Components form (dll) so you can't take a peek and see how its done

[Spider John]

I personally prefer http://www.asp101.com for ASP scripts if I'm feeling lazy (which for some reason I don't these days...I'm gonna have to work harder at that.) I usually find the base script needs some tweaking and addons to get it to what I want (especially considering that most of them incur far too many <% ... %> penalties for my liking), but I can at least get the general idea.

[gmilhon]

Here is a start:

http://www.microsoft.com/ISN/downloa...erview.asp?A=1

Also, the IIS Res. Kit has lots of sample scripts for IIS.