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Ansible - Run a command on Windows hosts using the win_command module

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If you are not familiar with modules, check out Ansible - Getting Started with Modules.

The shellcommand, script or raw modules are used to invoke a command on Linux nodes whereas win_command is used to run a common on Windows nodes.

In this example, the ps command will be invoked on the managed nodes. Often, this is used to run a Batch or PowerShell script on Windows nodes.

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: run PowerShell example.ps1 script using win_command
    command: 'C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe F:\Scripts\PowerShell\example.ps1'
    register: out

  - debug:
      var: out
...

 




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