How to Manage Windows Machine with Ansible

Setting up a Windows Host for Ansible

Upgrade Powershell with 5.1 & .NET framework 4.5.2
WinRM Setup
Ansible inventory for Windows Host
Test Windows Machine with Ansible Adhoc command

[aksharderi]

Please put all the PowerShell commands and link in the detail area for others. that would be helpful

[lucastoppa]

Hi, thanks for your video! Everything worked like a charm!

[avijitnaskar]

when we using a win_chocolatey module to install a package like a firefox, curl as in the video, from where this package was downloaded ? is it from the internet ? is the internet mandatory to install the package in windows using chocolatey through ansible?

[kausmittal]

Excellent and Simple.
Sir pls post a sample working playbook also. And also about Ansible Tower

[krishnakanthkvvs]

Hi, i am giving my domain credentials on hosts:vars, But it is not taking and throwing an error "ssl the specified credentials were rejected by the server"

[deepaksrivastava]

Hi Vipin, could you please share the github link where you pasted script to update and configure PS, .Net and WINRM

[Robertjebakumar]

Hi, once I execute the command from Ansible server to windows machine. I face this issue ""msg": "the connection plugin 'winrm, ' was not found"". It would helpful if you can let me know the issue. thanks in advance.

[rajasekhar-wphj]

EC2AMAZ-FP15GF6 | UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "ssl: ('Connection aborted.', error(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))",
"unreachable": true

I am getting this error when i was run ping command, can you please help me

[piyush]

The commands are so small that I am not able to see it even on my laptop. Please give us notes

[rahulpatil]

i follow all the same staps still its not pinging

[rahulpatil]

way vagrant user why we can't do it with Administrator?

[shashidharreddy]

Hi Vipin,


we have 100 nos of VM desktops that needs application upgrade, to automate it i want to use ansible, can you please help me with playbook to automate the task. thanks a lot in advance :)

[mallikarjunareddy]

Hi vipin, user id needs to be expired after 24 hours, how to write playbook? could you please guide me!

[hrsikeshkhitoliya]

Do we have to manually create user named vagrant in Windows Machine ?

[bartbtsful]

sorry mate, thanks, but sound is terrible