It’s been a while since I provided a post around updates for IT Admin Toolkit nearly a year ago. Since then a lot has changed…

Disclaimer: The application in this post is currently in alpha release status. Many features may be incomplete or not work as expected.

What’s New?

A compiled list of new or updated functionality can be found below, though full commit history can be found over on the GitHub Repo:

  • Updated Windows App SDK to 1.2.221209.1

  • Bumped ChangeLog to version 1.1.0

  • All new Dashboard page:

    • Display featured scripts on the new Dashboard page

    • Automatically display 6 most recently added scripts

    • Configurable settings for amount of cards to display will come at a later time

  • Initial Reporting functionality has been added

  • Improved resource consumption and efficiency by only loading category Pages once instead of generating them on the fly once clicked

  • Several preliminary Inbox Scripts were created (These are pretty rough and will be improved at a later time)

  • Numerous UI bug fixes and improvements:

    • Theme now uses Mica, still fully supported by Light/Dark modes

    • Added support for “Default” color to match System for categories

    • If white/light mode or black/dark mode is used for a category color it will automatically be flipped to the opposite for visibility

  • Added 3 new properties to the script XML: dateAdded, featured, and pictureAssetName

  • Added improved updater functionality to support new settings being added to XML, while preserving existing user values

  • New configurable sub-title setting

  • Updated ReadMe to reflect 1.2.2 for Windows App SDK redist required version

What’s Next?

As the alpha version of ITATK nears initial feature completion, stability and polish will be a major point of focus. I’d like to see this be as flexible as possible to meet all user’s needs. Be it for launching your own personal or enterprise scripts, or sharing the tool across a team of users.

Active work, bugs, and any other efforts can be found over on the Issues page and in active development branches:

Where Can I Download?

As usual, this is being developed publicly over on GitHub. Feel free to consume or contribute any issues or suggestions.