Every computer a web server using Powershell

# Create the Web page, accumulate it with the relevant info

"<html>" > index.html

"<head>" >> index.html

"</head>" >> index.html

"<body>" >> index.html

"Computer Name: "+ [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostName() >> index.html

"<p>" >> index.html

"Operating System: "+(Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem).caption >> index.html

"<p>" >> index.html

"User Name: "+(whoami)+" <p>" >> index.html

#IP address collection will be tricky

$VIPAddress=(Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter ("IPEnabled=TRUE") | Select-Object @{label="IPAddress";expression={$_.ipaddress[0]}},@{label="IPSubnet";expression={$_.IPSubnet[0]}},MACAddress,@{label="DefaultIPGateway";expression={$_.DefaultIPGateway[0]}},DHCPServer,DHCPEnabled,DNSDomain,DNSServerSearchOrder)

$length=$VIPAddress.length

#Now, display IP addresses for all enabled adapters

for($i=0;$i -lt $length;$i++){

"IP Address: "+$vipAddress[$i].ipaddress+" <p>" >> index.html

}

"</body>" >> index.html

"</html>" >> index.html

#Create “views” subfolder and copy index.html to it

md views

copy index.html views

#Install pode module for the current user. User may be a standard user.

Install-Module -Name ‘Pode’ -Scope ‘CurrentUser’ -force

#Start the Pode web server. IP address will be 127.0.0.1 because other ("real") addresses require the user to be an administrator

#Web site port should be between 1024-65535 so it will not meddle in other web sites on the computer, if any.

Start-PodeServer {

Add-PodeEndpoint -Address 127.0.0.1 -Port 6645 -Protocol Http

Add-PodeRoute -Method Get -Path ‘/’ -ScriptBlock {

Write-PodeViewResponse -Path ‘index.html’

}

}