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Posts in Windows

Solving critical Windows services restart during Puppet agent upgrades

by Ciprian Badescu | 29 October 2020

Read about the bumpy ride we had while fixing a critical Windows services restart during Puppet Agent upgrades.

The best of the PowerShell Gallery, right in your PE Console

by Ben Ford | 21 September 2020

Use any DSC resource from the PowerShell Gallery natively in Puppet. Just install from the Forge & enjoy change reporting right down to the parameter!

Automation and Windows

New Puppet facts for Windows

by John O’Connor | 4 June 2020

Introducing some Windows-specific facts recently added to Facter to give you Windows-specific build and installed edition information.

Windows

New! Windows collection on the Puppet Forge

by Fatima Albar | 10 April 2020

The Windows collection page is designed to give you the how-to content and Puppet modules in one easy place so you can solve your problems faster.

Windows

Navigating the Windows ecosystem with Puppet

by Alexa Sevilla | 1 April 2020

Learn how Puppet regularly helps organizations manage their Windows infrastructure with stories from Puppet customers, partners, and employees.

Events and Windows

What’s new with the Puppet VS Code extension

by James Pogran | 27 March 2020

The popular Puppet VSCode extension is moving to the Puppet namespace and has some new features you may not know about. Get the new extension today.

Tools & Integrations and Windows

Moving from the Azure VM extension to a better supported workflow

by Tara Krishnan | 4 March 2020

Now that we have better supported workflows for agent bootstrapping, we’ll be removing the Azure VM extension soon. Check out the recommendation to bootstrap your agents.

Tools & Integrations and Windows

How to set up WinRM over HTTPS with Puppet

by Kevin Reeuwijk | 14 February 2020

A guide to implementing HTTPS for WinRM automatically with Puppet.

Tips & How To and Windows

No more SCCM support for your Linux and UNIX servers? Puppet can help

by Tara Krishnan | 29 January 2020

Microsoft announced the deprecation of Linux/UNIX client support in SCCM. Learn how Puppet can help improve the efficiency for Linux & Windows teams.

Windows

Upgrading your Puppet-managed Windows 2008 servers

by Claire Cadman | 13 January 2020

The recommended practices for upgrading your Puppet-managed Windows 2008 servers.

Tips & How To and Windows

How to automate Windows patching with Puppet

by Kevin Reeuwijk | 13 September 2019

A guide to automating patch management on Windows with Puppet.

Industry News, Tips & How To, Tools & Integrations and Windows

How to install Hyper-V on Windows with Puppet

by Erik Hansen | 5 September 2019

We’re exploring and improving how we manage Hyper-V on Windows with Puppet, and wanted to share with our customers what we learned.

Industry News, Tips & How To and Windows

How to improve infrastructure automation with PowerShell and Bolt

by Claire Cadman | 18 July 2019

An extended example demonstrating how you can reuse a PowerShell script by converting it into a Task and running it with Bolt.

Industry News, Tips & How To, Tools & Integrations and Windows

Using Bolt and PowerShell with MS SQL Server

by William Hurt | 17 May 2019

The Puppet SQL Server module now has Bolt tasks! Learn how they work, how to use them, and even how you can build your own.

Industry News, Product, Tools & Integrations and Windows

Puppet on Windows: top questions for 2019

by Claire Cadman | 2 January 2019

Whether you’re looking to expand across your Windows estate, or thinking of deploying Puppet for the first time, we hope these answers help you.

Industry News, Product, Tools & Integrations and Windows

Combining PowerShell, Bolt and Puppet Tasks – Part 2

by Glenn Sarti | 13 December 2018

Part two of a blog series about using Bolt to write PowerShell Tasks, on Windows, for Windows. See testable PowerShell examples and learn more.

Industry News, Product, Tips & How To and Windows

Using custom DSC resources in Puppet

by Dan Franciscus | 17 September 2018

System engineer Dan Franciscus takes us through the steps of using custom DSC resources in Puppet with the dsc_lite module.

Industry News, Tips & How To, Tools & Integrations and Windows

Managing SharePoint complexity with Puppet’s dsc_lite module

by Andrew Ball | 4 September 2018

Read about how the University of Saskatchewan used Puppet’s dsc_lite module to upgrade from a SharePoint 2013 farm to 2016.

Industry News, Tools & Integrations and Windows

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