Even MOAR Windows [feedly]

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Even MOAR Windows
// Food Fight

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• Bryan Berry github, twitter, irc: bryanwb, blog: devopsanywhere
• Steven Murawski github, twitter, blog
• Adam Edwards github
• Daniel Mitchell
• Hans

Outline

• How do I figure out how parameterize an MSI install?
• Key windows-specific resources you should know about: registry_key, env
• Creating and managing Windows services
  • What is a windows service?
  • Tools, automating creation of services?
  • nssm.cc, procrun
  • How does a service resource relate to Windows services?
  • Explaining "Get-Service", "Start-Service", "Stop-Service"
• If run chef under the SYSTEM user and sometimes I get weird errors that I can't reproduce while logged in ANSWER: psexec -s some_command.exe
• What is the pstools suite? Which commands are of particular interest: ANSWER: All of them.
• Servercore - Can I run Powershell ISE or another editor with server core? Otherwise, how do I edit files?
• Servercore gotchas
• Building windows amis for EC2
  • Put code to generate SSL certificate in userdata
  • Connect to instance over winrm
  • Packer is your friend
• There is a good example in the Ansible codebase, example from knife bootstrap?
• Is using GNUWIN32 utilities on windows, a bad idea? YES Bryan: less can't read unicode files on win2k12, ls has bizarre issues
• remote-file editing w/ ISE coming
• Powershell basics: Do both stdout and stderr return objects? There are actually 7, count 'em 7 streams
• What is the equivalent of (strace)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace] in Windows?

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