Adding/Enabling windows feature using chef

Question

I am writing chef cookbook to add/enable some of the windows feature. For enabling I am using powershell_script resource and below is the powershell script.

Import-Module Servermanager
Add-WindowsFeature Print-LPD-Service

For some reason, during chef-client run windows feature is not enabled. But the recipe ran successfully.

When I manually executed the command in powershell shell it works fine.

I am not aware of any security settings to be enabled to achieve this requirement. So, how we can enable windows feature using chef. Any pointers will be helpful.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '14 at 02:55

Used windows_feature resource from windows cookbook instead of powershell_script resource to enable the features.

windows_feature 'Printing-LPDPrintService' do
  action :install
  not_if  { Registry.key_exists?('HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\services\LPDSVC') }
end

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '14 at 05:31

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If it ran via the interactive shell, then you might not be allowed to run scripts on that machine.

You might need to put this at the beginning of your script:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Confirm:$false

The script needs to be run as an Administrator.

answered Jan 08 '14 at 05:31

Vasili Syrakis

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When using `powershell_script` resource, its executed as non-interactive. The command executed from chef-client log is `execute "powershell.exe" -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -InputFormat None -File $TEMP_PATH` – vareda Jan 08 '14 at 05:36

Adding/Enabling windows feature using chef

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