Ansible for the Windows Admin by Jeremy Murrah

[@_MrSnrub]

Man uses vim correctly. _Everyone liked that._

[@queenannsrevenge100]

Thanks for the presentation! I had never looked into DSC nor writing your own Ansible windows module, and it was very insightful!

[@ammadkhan4687]

can I host ansible in cloud and update windows laptop which are always out of internal network. They are always connected to extrnal network. no vpn

[@gareginasatryan6761]

So basically it’s a free alternative to system center? Pretty cool. Since I’ve always wanted to do simple stuff like windows updates and driver/bios updates without AD and GPOs.

[@faisalparkar]

Fantastic video. Very useful and helpful. Any ideas where I can get the files created in here from?

[@philw102]

you can get the code from github if you still need it - github.com/murrahjm/PSSummit2019

[@yassineaitbrahim9496]

@@philw102 thank you

[@ahmedshaarawy1471]

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

[@emmanuelogoma2595]

the vault password format error could be as a result of line ending , you are working on windows and vs is using CRLF instaed of LF. You may need to change that on VS

[@emmanuelogoma2595]

alternatively you can specify --output option to create a file instead of copy pasting

[@othermikelouis314]

Hello Jeremy. Thank you for this great workshop ..it was a very informative session in the meantime I have a question. What is the best practice secure way to manage standalone (Non-Domain) windows servers with ansible? (like this configuration below) ansible_user: username ansible_password: super secret ansible_connection: winrm ansible_port: 5985 ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm ansible_winrm_message_encryption: always Do you think this configuration is secure enough to use on production? The password is in clear text here and do you think it's encrypted in transit? What do you think about credssp ? my only concerns with credssp it 's not scalable as you mentioned in the workshop .. a certificate for every machine it's a lot of work. Thank you for sharing your experience and give me a piece of advice about the best secure way to implement ansible with non-domain windows servers for Domain windows machine it s easier Kerberos did it right

[@свой-т8ю]

в чем отличие от виндоус систем центр? what is difference with windows system center ?

[@barma1309]

Та оно кривое

[@maoryatskan6346]

Great talker, love it

[@frannelk]

Trailing characters while copy/pasting the encrypted password was the issue.

[@dorotibse]

Ever figure out why the encryption failed?

[@murrahjm]

Yeah actually, I think it was the newline at the end from the way I highlighted the text. I should have grabbed up to just the last character and not the whole line.

[@dorotibse]

Haha gotcha!

[@nsuguitan]

in powershell, just output the result to a variable then clip it; paste it.

[@zoltannemeth8864]

“Jeremy spoke in class todayyyyy...”

[@uprajsingh]

Try to forget this (try to forget this) ; Try to erase this (try to erase this)

[@pezictusfish]

Spent hours trying to figure this out, but couldn't get the example to work, looks like the convertto-json cmdlet is still a little bit buggy or something. Worked like this for me: get-childItem c:\ | convertto-json -compress