PowerShell IT Management Dashboard

Overview

This is a Windows Forms GUI built in PowerShell — a full IT Management Dashboard that runs on a Domain Controller. It covers 10 admin tasks: AD user management, password expiry alerts, patch auditing, backups, system health checks, scheduled tasks, and more.

Before the dashboard loads, a credential wrapper runs first. It prompts for admin credentials, tests them against a privileged path, and only launches the main GUI if the check passes.

Dashboard Tabs

1. User Account Management — create, enable, disable, search AD accounts
2. Password Expiration Alerts — flag accounts close to expiry
3. Time Tracking Reminders — session usage and alerts
4. Patch Management — query local hotfixes and updates
5. Password Reset — change user passwords securely
6. System Health Checks — live CPU, RAM, disk, and service status
7. Backup Automation — scheduled and on-demand folder backups
8. Reporting & Logging — search and review application logs
9. Phonetic Spelling — convert names/usernames to NATO phonetic alphabet
10. Scheduled Tasks — list, create, and delete local task scheduler entries

Credential Wrapper

The entry point script handles authentication before anything else loads.

1. Prompts for credentials via Get-Credential
2. Spawns a background process under those credentials to test a privileged path
3. Catches auth failures and logs them
4. If the exit code is 0, loads the main dashboard

# Key snippet for Secure Credentials Retrieval
$Credentials = Get-Credential -Message "Enter administrator credentials to access the script."

# Key snippet for Verification execution
$Result = Start-Process -FilePath "powershell.exe" -ArgumentList "-Command", $TestCommand -Credential $Credentials -NoNewWindow -Wait -PassThru

Screenshots

Authentication Prompt

Dashboard

Component	Screenshot
Main Dashboard
AD Users & Search
Stats Console
Account Controls
Alerts & Logging

Requirements

• PowerShell 5.1 or later
• Elevated session (Run as Administrator)
• ActiveDirectory module installed on the Domain Controller
• Don't hardcode credentials — use Get-Credential or a vault

Source Code

The wrapper entry point — handles credential prompting and verification before loading the dashboard:

# Verify-AdminCredentials.ps1
# Wrapper logic to secure the IT Management Dashboard
Function Verify-AdminCredentials {
    # Prompt for credentials
    $credentials = Get-Credential -Message "Enter administrator credentials to access the script."
    
    if (-not $credentials) {
        Write-Host "No credentials entered. Exiting script." -ForegroundColor Red
        return
    }

    # Define a test command to validate credentials
    $testCommand = {
        Test-Path "C:\Windows\System32"
    }

    try {
        # Run a test command using the entered credentials
        $result = Start-Process -FilePath "powershell.exe" -ArgumentList "-Command", $testCommand -Credential $credentials -NoNewWindow -Wait -PassThru

        if ($result.ExitCode -eq 0) {
            Write-Host "Authentication successful. Access granted." -ForegroundColor Green
            # Call the external script file main.ps1
            & "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\main.ps1"
        } else {
            Write-Host "Authentication failed. Access denied." -ForegroundColor Red
        }
    } catch {
        Write-Host "An error occurred during authentication: $_" -ForegroundColor Red
    }
}

# Call the Verify-AdminCredentials function
Verify-AdminCredentials

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