I am trying to use powershell to setup a process that off boards users and doing the AD side of things is great but I am not sure how to use powershell to interact with our other software that only has a gui.
For example user management in studio3T where they only have a web UI or an application that you can download and run locally.
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I wouldn’t personally
What if your automation clicks the wrong button after an update? GUI is for humans not scripts.
There are a few options:
- Use AutoIT or some similar automation framework. Generally, this is pretty easy and gets the job done. Your security folks may hate you (AutoIT binary hashes are basically all assumed to be malware IoCs at this point),
- Depending on how the GUI works, you may be able to reverse engineer the calls made by the application and just make those calls yourself. For a Web UI, you can use something like BurpeSuite or even just the FireFox developer tools to catch the web calls and then modify/replay those as desired. For a console application, it could be trickier, as you may need to either load the software’s libraries (DLLs) or figure out database calls. It all depends on how the user data is stored and updated.
- Using P/Invoke you can load several functions from the Win32 API, specifically FindWindowEx and EnumChildWindows to locate the GUI application and any specific form items you want to manipulate (e.g. TextBoxes to fill, Buttons to click). You can then modify properties or send clicks. You’ll probably hate yourself at the end of this project, but you’ll learn a lot.
oh man I have so many things to learn.
Its been quite a few years, but used Selenium to interact with GUIs for these kind of things. This included onboarding/offboarding tasks.
Api if it has one. Otherwise AutoIt or Autohotkey
