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Expand Up @@ -2,18 +2,25 @@ Vagrant-Ansible-Windows
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or, "I only need Windows for this one app..."

NOTICE: Ansible's chocolatey module (win_chocolatey) currently does not
work. at all. this is because of changes in chocolatey's commandline
parsing. (Ansible v1.9.X)

This repo tracks my work to use [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com) to
automate a [Vagrant](http://www.vagrantup.com) environment for a
"daily-driver" Windows desktop. Resisting the urge to put the MS
update/patches necessary for Windows 7 Ansible support into the repo
for now.
"daily-driver" Windows desktop.

NOTICE: As I no longer use a Mac, Windows 10 support is being built in [Boxstarter](https://boxstarter.org/ ), which can run on the target machine directly, rather than Ansible with requires a Mac/Linux control machine.

Setup (Win 10 + Boxstarter)(Local)
----------------------------------

1. Install latest Boxstarter from [boxstarter.org](https://boxstarter.org/ )
2. Run from Boxstarter Shell with: `Install-BoxstarterPackage -PackageName <GitHub Raw URL to provisioning/boxstarter.ps1> -DisableReboots`

Setup (Vagrant + Win10 + )
--------------------------

Setup
-----
Requires:

Setup (Win 7 + Vagrant + Ansible)
---------------------------------

1. Clone this repo. remember that the VM is going to use 2GB of RAM. You
can reduce this in the Vagrantfile, but less than 2GB will cause
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* .NET 4.5.1 Full Installer
* WMF 3.0 Installer

3. Run `vagrant up` to download the windows 7 x64 .box, then copy it a
3. Run `vagrant up` to download the windows 7 x64 .box, make a copy of it for a
running instance, and run the provisioners (scripts) embedded in the
Vagrantfile and also the Ansible playbooks in provisioning/playbook*.yml

Windows Login Security
----------------------

put an encrypted file windows.yml into provisioning/group_vars/ with the contents:
```yaml
ansible_ssh_user: vagrant
ansible_ssh_pass: <password>
ansible_ssh_port: 55986
ansible_connection: winrm
```

use `ansible vault create provisioning/group_vars/windows.yml`
then `ansible vault edit provisioning/group_vars/windows.yml` to edit in
1. use `ansible vault create provisioning/group_vars/windows.yml`
2. then `ansible vault edit provisioning/group_vars/windows.yml` to edit in
your $EDITOR

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plaintext, but Ansible cannot. I think.

gitignored files

NDP451\*.msu is .net 4.5.1

KB\*143\*.msu is WMF 3.0 including PowerShell 3.0

KB\*745\*.msu is WMF 4.0 including PowerShell 4.0
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# Boxstarter single-file script [Home page](https://boxstarter.org/ )
# Installing Boxstarter: `. { iwr -useb https://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } | iex; Get-Boxstarter -Force`
# Run from Boxstarter Shell with: Install-BoxstarterPackage -PackageName <GitHub Raw URL> [-DisableReboots]