2013-01-21 15:29 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Tony's plan here was to go for a web based control panel.  EVS has this and the plan is to backport it to 
CVSNT.

I'm not so sure I like that so much myself.  These are the choices as I see them, not all are exclusive (ie: 
we could do more than one):
* a 'new' control panel, using the windows vista API.  MS actively discourage this, even though they do 
supply the API
* a web based api, would work on windows and linux
* a command line based client/server admin api ( a bit like powershell ),  would work on linux and 
windows
* just a 'clean up' of the existing control panel

In Windows Server 2012 aparently all the control panels run 'powershell' commands in the background.  
So a 'combination' idea is:
- new 'cvs radmin' commands, only allowed by admin users.  'remote' admin users disabled by default
- new windows control panel for 'simple' tasks like start/stop server.  Runs 'cvs radmin'
- on control panel 'advanced' option button runs up IE pointing to web site admin page