Windows

Windows Working Group

The Windows Working Group collaborates on Windows and Windows-related technologies in Ansible.

A total of 91 dedicated Windows modules ship with Ansible v2.7 !
We have a Windows meeting agenda and a pinboard, subscribe to them to stay informed!
We have a list of ideas and a progress tracker on this Wiki.
From time to time we do sprints to help fight the growing issue and PR queue.

Name	GitHub (+ IRC)	Role	Affiliation
Jordan Borean	jborean93	Lead	Red Hat/Ansible
Matt Davis	nitzmahone	Lead	Red Hat/Ansible
Dag Wieers	dagwieers / dag	Reviewer	Independent
John Hawkesworth	jhawkesworth	Reviewer
Trond Hindenes	trondhindenes	Reviewer
Michael Eaton	if-meaton / square1	Member	Independant

If you want to bring up an issue, a review-request or a PR to discuss on the meeting, just put it on the meeting agenda.

We have weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC on IRC channel #ansible-windows.

Meeting minutes and logs are available by channel or by team.

Threaded Ansible implementation -- jimi-c
Integrate Powershell coverage support -- nitzmahone #63
Intermediate module output to support the 5 different streams of output -- nitzmahone, bcoca
Propose backup-facility for some modules -- dagwieers #50033
Using SSH as a transport for Windows -- jborean #47732

Implement WinRM connection parameters (and general Windows options) to Ansible config -- #153 (comment)
List new/missing facts from win_setup and make a plan -- #153 (comment)
Create integration tests for glob-paths to determine scope of -LiteralPath issues #153 (comment)
Implement a solution for updating facts from modules in a more granular fashion.

Here is a list of things that need to be done in Pywinrm.

Bypass Proxy
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/165 - (Chosen impl) http and https_proxy passed as separate args, no no_proxy
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/151 - options are passed as 1 dict
Allow custom CA paths
- ~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/182~~
Automatically parse *_timeout_sec vars as an int and fail with a better error
- ~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/186~~
Kerberos
- ~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/144~~ - fix to override default service of HTTP (fixed in 186
- ~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/192~~ - message encryption
SSL Warning Suppression RHEL7
- ~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/176~~
Send Message Retry
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/175
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/174 - Dag's implementation
Better Exception Errors
- ~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/189~~

Python 3 Fixes
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/178 - encoding fix for stream output (is this still an issue)
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/137 - fix when running run_ps on Python 3 so stderr is a string not bytes
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/112 - another fix for the above
Command Output
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/170 - for clixml
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/168 - convert exception output to bytes (not really needed)
Other
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/145 - run_ps to use UTF-8 instead of UTF-16
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/132 - override close session to not close the shell but still close TCP session
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/116 - various changes such as stdin input and lifetime fixes
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/92 - IPv6 support for the basic API
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/55 - live stdout
- https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/42 - cli interface

~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/115~~ - python-devel for Kerb (already done)

~~https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/pull/122~~ - don't use, set's port based on ntlm transport

Speed up Windows CI testing using own dedicated environment -- nitzmahone, mattclay
Make httptester available for Windows VMs (for testing win_get_url and win_uri) -- jborean93 #46606
Create a diagnostic script for common WinRM configuration issues -- jborean93 #153 (comment)
Add new DSC documentation and examples to existing Windows docs -- trondhindenes
Improve the speed of win_copy for multiple files -- jborean93
issue #19725: Use environment variable to find/use executable
Mutually reference Windows and non-Windows modules in documentation -- dagwieers #25482
Fix inconsistent parameters cfr. #20160 -- dagwieers #25398 #26464 #26466
Re-enable non-pipeline mode for Powershell -- nitzmahone -- #25012
Reimplementation of win_regedit module -- jborean93 #26468
Implement absolute src= path for win_shortcut -- dagwieers #24494
Ensure service accounts don't need NT AUTHORITY\ prepended for convenience~ (use module_utils to pick this up). -- jborean93 #153 (comment)
Powershell module_utils loader -- nitzmahone #26932
Add GitHub badges for PRs by-label for our Wiki -- dagwieers -- badges/shields#1020
Document the old/new syntax for specifying a path (with backslashes) -- jhawkesworth docs #15787 #25278
Restructure Windows documentation, start with demo structure -- jborean93
Merge the winrm connection plugin docs -- nitzmahone
Implement #AnsibleRequires functionality (for requirements other than module utils eg OS Version, become--nitzmahone -- meeting notes