WinRM

Since the release of Ansible 1.7, way back in the forgotten era of 2014, Ansible can connect to Windows (2008 and higher) using remote PowerShell over that most finicky of mechanisms, WinRM. Red Hat are quick to sell the unilateral management capabilities of Ansible (which do exist), but under the hood we see a uniquely Windows problem. Ansible was built for SSH initially and because Microsoft as ever adopt a . . .