'Can we logon as a full windows profile using ansible
I know that Ansible uses winRM to connect to window hosts, which means it does not fully load a windows profile when connecting to a host, but rather can execute bat/powershell commands remotely.
But is there a method where I can logon as a complete Windows profile using Ansible.
My requirement is that every Monday morning I want an automated job (Preferrabley Jenkins -> Ansible) that will logon to my Windows Server machines (around 10 machines). Currently we have a support team that does this every Monday morning (because the machines are rebooted every weekend), and sometimes 1 or 2 machines are missed out, and I would like to automate this because we have Scheduled Tasks that are supposed to run early in the morning, that sometimes misses to run because support forgets to login to a particular machine.
Solution 1:[1]
There are 2 connection plugins for Windows in Ansible PSRP and WinRM. Whatever tasks your support team is performing manually can be automated with Ansible Windows Modules or Powershell commands. Though they are executed remotely, actions are performed on the target servers only.
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