The FASTEST Way to Manage Windows Server 2025 Using SSH and Ansible

[@carlosmel7742]

Really good videos and well explained. congratulation. I've followed tutorial carefully, repeated it many times and always had same issues: ansible all -i hosts.ini -m ansible.windows.win_ping -u Administrator --ask-pass SSH password: server2025 | FAILED! => { "changed": false, "module_stderr": "Parameter format not correct - ; ", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE See stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1 } host.ini file: [windows] server2025 ansible_host=192.168.1.1 [windows:vars] #ansible_user=administrator #ansible_password=your_password ansible_connection=ssh ansible_shell_type=powershell ansible_ssh_common_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

[@automatesql]

Thanks! What version of Ansible are you using? Also just to double check are you able to ssh into the server from the terminal?

[@carlosmel7742]

@automatesql thanks for the quick response. I can SSH from the terminal using the keys without any issues. Version installed is 2.17.7

[@automatesql]

In your command you reference the inventory file as hosts.ini but in the snippet of the inventory file it's labeled as host.ini. Pretty sure that's just a copy / paste issue though. Is the default shell set to powershell on server2025? Here is the full blog post that may help. Doublecheck the prerequisites. www.automatesql.com/blog/how-to-configure-ssh-on-windows-server-2025-for-use-with-ansible

[@carlosmel7742]

@@automatesql it's a typo here but I'm using the same filename for the file and command