Ansible Manage Windows

Manage Windows Systems using ansible. Ansible uses Windows PowerShell remoting to manage Windows.
You can get current winrm configuration using
winrm get winrm/config

Use this commands for setting winrm
Set-Item -Force WSMan:\localhost\Service\Allowunencrypted $True
Set-Item -Force WSMan:\localhost\Service\auth\Basic $True

[JCtheMusicMan_]

The most to-the-point, step by step guide I have found! Thank you much Sir!

[irfan]

You have earned a sub sir.
Very well explained.

[ctrl]

great tutorial - thanks for explaining this so well! Also, excellent music.

[xrz]

Ignore that Down-Vote! This stuff needs a conversation! Thank you.

[SagarAjmire]

Please provide commands which you used to run file. At 4:48

[OhDearBabajan]

I was told this isn't the bset way to use it in production. Do you have any tips for setting it up in production? Any videos I can follow to get it going quickly? Things like certificates/SSL? Thank you

[mohanurs]

Will i be able to install applications when the inventory nodes are in public network ?

[bt]

Very nice tutorial for basic winrm. Do you have any tutorials for AzureAD joined machines ?

[irfan]

now that ssh is available in windows 10, can we manage windows just like any other *nix based machines. i mean without setting up winrm.

[ahmedshaarawy]

Great Video, but i need urgently to know how to automate joining domain computers to specified domain groups !?

[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?

[mabhinash]

Sir I am getting below error. Can you please help how I can resolve this

"msg" : "basic: auth method basic requires a password", "unreachable": true

[piyush]

Hello everyone. This may not work as the ntlm transport is missing in inventory parameters

[zahidiqbal-ugkh]

Hi sir, i need your help to create playbook for mssql server for windows machine, it will be paid, plz reply,

[sajidshaik]

Can you help me to enable credssp based authentication

[joerykowski]

Use of NTLM at very least for authentication via WinRM for windows hosts. Below is still "yellow flag" since ignoring cert validation...

hosts should include these vars:
"vars": {
"ansible_connection": "winrm",
"ansible_winrm_transport": "ntlm",

"ignore" #TODO: Use CA cert trust path and verify
}

And target host should have this run to enable WinRM via HTTPS for secure connections (see the windows_setup.html guide):

$file =

(New-Object -TypeName System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($url, $file)

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File $file