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Community Windows Release Notes

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v2.2.0

Release Summary

Release summary for v2.2.0

Minor Changes

  • win_regmerge - Add content 'content' parameter for specifying registry file contents directly

Bugfixes

  • win_format, win_partition - Add support for Windows failover cluster disks
  • win_psmodule - Fix up error message with state=latest
  • win_robocopy - Fix up cmd return value to include the executable robocopy

v2.1.0

Release Summary

Release summary for v2.1.0

Minor Changes

  • Set minimum supported Ansible version to 2.14 to align with the versions still supported by Ansible.

Bugfixes

  • Remove some code which is no longer valid for dotnet 5+
  • community.windows.win_psmodule_info - exception thrown when host has no Installed Module. Fix now checks that variable $installedModules is not null before calling the .Contains(..) function on it.
  • win_rabbitmq_plugin - Avoid using Invoke-Expression when running external commands
  • win_rds_rap - The module crashed when creating a RAP with Gateway Managed Computer Group (ansible-collections#184).

v2.0.0

Release Summary

Version 2.0.0 is a major release of the community.windows collection that removes some deprecated features. Please review the changelog to see what deprecated features have been removed in this release.

Minor Changes

  • win_dns_record - Added zone_scope option to manage a record in a specific zone scope

Deprecated Features

  • win_domain_computer - Module is deprecated in favour of the microsoft.ad.computer module, the community.windows.win_domain_computer module will be removed in the 3.0.0 release of this collection.
  • win_domain_group - Module is deprecated in favour of the microsoft.ad.group module, the community.windows.win_domain_group module will be removed in the 3.0.0 release of this collection.
  • win_domain_group_membership - Module is deprecated in favour of the microsoft.ad.group module, the community.windows.win_domain_group_membership module will be removed in the 3.0.0 release of this collection.
  • win_domain_object_info - Module is deprecated in favour of the microsoft.ad.object_info module, the community.windows.win_domain_object_info module will be removed in the 3.0.0 release of this collection.
  • win_domain_ou - Module is deprecated in favour of the microsoft.ad.ou module, the community.windows.win_domain_ou module will be removed in the 3.0.0 release of this collection.
  • win_domain_user - Module is deprecated in favour of the microsoft.ad.user module, the community.windows.win_domain_user module will be removed in the 3.0.0 release of this collection.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • Removed testing for Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2 as they are reaching End of Life status from Microsoft. These OS versions may continue to work but will not be tested in CI.
  • win_nssm - Removed the deprecated module option app_parameters, use arguments instead.
  • win_psmodule - Removed the deprecated module option url, use community.windows.win_psrepository to manage repositories instead
  • win_psmodule - Will no longer remove the repository specified when state: absent, use community.windows.win_psrepository to manage repositories instead
  • win_scheduled_tasks - Removed support for a trigger repetition to be defined as a list of dictionary entries. Specify the repetition as a dictionary value rather than a list of dictionaries.

Bugfixes

  • win_psmodule - fix requireLicenseAcceptance test so that it is no longer always true

v1.13.0

Release Summary

Release summary for v1.13.0

Minor Changes

  • Raise minimum Ansible version to 2.12 or newer
  • win_dns_record - Add parameter aging for creating non-static DNS records.
  • win_domain_computer - Add ActiveDirectory module import
  • win_domain_object_info - Add ActiveDirectory module import
  • win_psmodule - add force option to allow overwriting/updating existing module dependency only if requested
  • win_pssession_configuration - Add diff mode support

Bugfixes

  • win_disk_facts - Fix issue when enumerating non-physical disks or disks without numbers - ansible-collections#474
  • win_firewall_rule - fix program cannot be set to any on existing rules.
  • win_psmodule - Fix missing AcceptLicense parameter that occurs when the pre-reqs have been installed - ansible-collections#487
  • win_pssession_configuration - Fix parser error (Invalid JSON primitive: icrosoft.WSMan.Management.WSManConfigContainerElement)
  • win_xml - Fixes the issue when no childnode is defined and will allow adding a new element to an empty element.
  • win_zip - fix source appears to use backslashes as path separators issue when extracting Zip archve in non-Windows environment - ansible-collections#442

v1.12.0

Release Summary

Release summary for v1.12.0

Minor Changes

  • win_dns_record - Added support for DHCID (RFC 4701) records
  • win_domain_user - Added the display_name option to set the users display name attribute

Bugfixes

  • win_firewall_rule - fix problem in check mode with multiple ip addresses not in same order
  • win_partition - fix problem in auto assigning a drive letter should the user use either a, u, t or o as a drive letter

v1.11.1

Release Summary

Release summary for v1.11.1

Bugfixes

  • win_dhcp_lease - call Get-DhcpServerv4Lease once when MAC and IP are defined (ansible-collections#427)
  • win_dhcp_lease - fix mac address convert (ansible-collections#291)
  • win_psmodule - Fix bootstrapping PowerShellGet with -AcceptLicense - ansible-collections#424
  • win_psmodule - Source PowerShellGet and PackagementManagement from repository if specified
  • win_region - did not allow regional format en-150 (= English(Europe); also referred as en-EU or en-Europe). This fix allows specifying en-150 as regional format (ansible-collections#438).
  • win_scoop - Fix idempotency checks with Scoop v0.2.3 and newer.

v1.11.0

Release Summary

Release summary for v1.11.0

Minor Changes

  • Raise minimum Ansible version to 2.11 or newer
  • win_psmodule module - add accept_license option to allow for installing modules that require license acceptance (ansible-collections#340).

Bugfixes

  • win_domain_user - Fix broken warning call when failing to get group membership - ansible-collections#412
  • win_scheduled_task - Fix the Monthly DOW trigger value run_on_last_week_of_month when weeks_of_month is also set - ansible-collections#414

v1.10.0

Release Summary

Release summary for v1.10.0

Minor Changes

  • win_domain_user - Add support for managing service prinicpal names via the spn param and principals allowed to delegate via the delegates param (ansible-collections#365)
  • win_domain_user - Added the groups_missing_behaviour option that controls the behaviour when a group specified does not exist - ansible-collections#375
  • win_hotfix - Added the identifiers and kbs return value that is always a list of identifiers and kbs inside a hotfix
  • win_psmodule - Add credential support for through the username and password options
  • win_psrepository - Add credential support for through the username and password options

Bugfixes

  • win_hotfix - Supports hotfixes that contain multiple updates inside the supplied update msu - ansible-collections#284
  • win_iis_webapplication - Fix physical path check for broken configurations - ansible-collections#385
  • win_rds_cap - Fix SID lookup with any account ending with the @builtin UPN suffix
  • win_rds_rap - Fix SID lookup with any account ending with the @builtin UPN suffix
  • win_region - Fix junk output when copying settings across users
  • win_scoop - Fix bootstrapping process to properly work when running as admin
  • win_scoop_bucket - Fix handling of output and errors from each scoop command

New Modules

  • win_listen_ports_facts - Recopilates the facts of the listening ports of the machine

v1.9.0

Minor Changes

  • win_disk_facts - Added filter option to filter returned facts by type of disk information - ansible-collections#33
  • win_disk_facts - Converted from #Requires -Module Ansible.ModuleUtils.Legacy to #AnsibleRequires -CSharpUtil Ansible.Basic
  • win_iis_virtualdirectory - Added the connect_as, username, and password options to control the virtual directory authentication - ansible-collections#346
  • win_power_plan - Added guid option to specify plan by a unique identifier - ansible-collections#310

Bugfixes

  • win_domain_user - Module now properly captures and reports bad password - ansible-collections#316
  • win_domain_user - Module now reports user created and changed properly - ansible-collections#316
  • win_domain_user - The AD user's existing identity is searched using their sAMAccountName name preferentially and falls back to the provided name property instead - ansible-collections#344
  • win_iis_virtualdirectory - Fixed an issue where virtual directory information could not be obtained correctly when the parameter application was set

v1.8.0

Minor Changes

  • win_nssm - Added username as an alias for user
  • win_nssm - Remove deprecation for state, dependencies, user, password, start_mode
  • win_nssm - Support gMSA accounts for user

Bugfixes

  • win_audit_rule - Fix exception when trying to change a rule on a hidden or protected system file - ansible-collections#17
  • win_firewall - Fix GpoBoolean/Boolean comparation(windows versions compatibility increase)
  • win_nssm - Perform better user comparison checks for idempotency
  • win_pssession_configuration - the associated action plugin detects check mode using a method that isn't always accurate (ansible-collections#318).
  • win_region - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_scheduled_task - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_scheduled_task_stat - Fix conflicts with existing LIB environment variable
  • win_scoop_bucket - Ensure no extra data is sent to the controller resulting in a junk output warning
  • win_xml - Do not show warnings for normal operations - ansible-collections#205
  • win_xml - Fix removal operation when running with higher verbosities - ansible-collections#275

New Modules

  • win_domain_ou - Manage Active Directory Organizational Units

v1.7.0

Minor Changes

  • win_domain_user - Added sam_account_name to explicitly set the sAMAccountName property of an object - ansible-collections#281

Bugfixes

v1.6.0

Minor Changes

  • win_dns_record - Added txt Support
  • win_scheduled_task - Added support for setting a session_state_change trigger by documenting the human friendly values for state_change
  • win_scheduled_task_state - Added state_change_str to the trigger output to give a human readable description of the value

Security Fixes

v1.5.0

Bugfixes

v1.4.0

Bugfixes

  • win_domain_group_membership - Handle timeouts when dealing with group with lots of members - ansible-collections#204
  • win_domain_user - Make sure a password is set to change when it is marked as password needs to be changed before logging in - ansible-collections#223
  • win_domain_user - fix reporting on user when running in check mode - ansible-collections#248
  • win_lineinfile - Fix crash when using insertbefore and insertafter at the same time - ansible-collections#220
  • win_partition - Fix gtp_type setting in win_partition - ansible-collections#241
  • win_psmodule - Makes sure -AllowClobber is used when updating pre-requisites if requested - ansible-collections#42
  • win_pssession_configuration - the async_poll option was not actually used and polling mode was always used with the default poll delay; this change also formally disables async_poll=0 (ansible-collections#212).
  • win_wait_for_process - Fix bug when specifying multiple process_name_exact values - ansible-collections#203

New Modules

  • win_feature_info - Gather information about Windows features

v1.3.0

Minor Changes

  • Extend win_domain_computer adding managedBy parameter.

Bugfixes

  • win_firewall_rule - Ensure service: any is set to match any service instead of the literal service called any as per the docs
  • win_scoop - Make sure we enable TLS 1.2 when installing scoop
  • win_xml - Fix PropertyNotFound exception when creating a new attribute - ansible-collections#166

New Modules

  • win_psrepository_copy - Copies registered PSRepositories to other user profiles

v1.2.0

Minor Changes

  • win_nssm - added new parameter 'app_environment' for managing service environment.
  • win_scheduled_task - validate task name against invalid characters (ansible-collections#168)
  • win_scheduled_task_stat - add check mode support (ansible-collections#167)

Bugfixes

  • win_partition - fix size comparison errors when size specified in bytes (ansible-collections#159)
  • win_security_policy - read config file with correct encoding to avoid breaking non-ASCII chars
  • win_security_policy - strip of null char added by secedit for LegalNoticeText so the existing value is preserved

New Modules

  • win_net_adapter_feature - Enable or disable certain network adapters.

v1.1.0

Minor Changes

  • win_dns_record - Support NS record creation,modification and deletion
  • win_firewall - Support defining the default inbound and outbound action of traffic in Windows firewall.
  • win_psrepository - Added the proxy option that defines the proxy to use for the repository being managed

v1.0.0

Minor Changes

  • win_dns_record - Added support for managing SRV records
  • win_firewall_rule - Support editing rules by the group it belongs to
  • win_firewall_rule - Support editing rules that have a duplicated name

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

  • win_pester - no longer runs all *.ps1 file in the directory specified due to it executing potentially unknown scripts. It will follow the default behaviour of only running tests for files that are like *.tests.ps1 which is built into Pester itself.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • win_psexec - removed the deprecated extra_opts option.

Bugfixes

  • win_scoop - add checks for globally installed packages for better idempotency checks

New Modules

  • win_scoop_bucket - Manage Scoop buckets

v0.2.0

Release Summary

This is the first proper release of the community.windows collection on 2020-07-18. The changelog describes all changes made to the modules and plugins included in this collection since Ansible 2.9.0.

Minor Changes

  • win_disk_facts - Set output array order to be by disk number property - ansible/ansible#63998
  • win_domain_computer - sam_account_name with missing $ will have it added automatically (ansible-collections#93)
  • win_domain_computer - add support for offline domain join (ansible-collections#93)
  • win_domain_group_membership - Add multi-domain forest support - ansible/ansible#59829
  • win_domain_user - Added the identity module option to explicitly set the identity of the user when searching for it - ansible/ansible#45298
  • win_firewall- Change req check from wmf version to cmdlets presence - ansible/ansible#63003
  • win_firewall_rule - add parameter to support ICMP Types and Codes (ansible/ansible#46809)
  • win_iis_webapplication - add new options connect_as, username, password.
  • win_iis_webapplication - now uses the current application pool of the website instead of the DefaultAppPool if none was specified.
  • win_nssm - Implement additional parameters - (ansible/ansible#62620)
  • win_pester - Only execute *.tests.ps1 in path to match the default behaviour in Pester - ansible/ansible#55736

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • win_disk_image - removed the deprecated return value mount_path in favour of mount_paths.

Bugfixes

  • security issue win_unzip - normalize paths in archive to ensure extracted files do not escape from the target directory (CVE-2020-1737)
  • psexec - Fix issue where the Kerberos package was not detected as being available.
  • psexec - Fix issue where the interactive option was not being passed down to the library.
  • win_credential - Fix issue that errors when trying to add a name with wildcards.
  • win_domain_computer - Fix idempotence checks when sAMAccountName is different from name
  • win_domain_computer - Honour the explicit domain server and credentials when moving or removing a computer object - ansible/ansible#63093
  • win_domain_user - Better handle cases when getting a new user's groups fail - ansible/ansible#54331
  • win_format - Idem not working if file exist but same fs (ansible/ansible#58302)
  • win_format - fixed issue where module would not change allocation unit size (ansible/ansible#56961)
  • win_iis_webapppool - Do not try and set attributes in check mode when the pool did not exist
  • win_iis_website - Actually restart the site when state=restarted - ansible/ansible#63828
  • win_partition - Fix invalid variable name causing a failure on checks - ansible/ansible#62401
  • win_partition - don't resize partitions if size difference is < 1 MiB
  • win_timezone - Allow for _dstoff timezones
  • win_unzip - Fix support for paths with square brackets not being detected properly