On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Joaquin Menchaca <joaquin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I was wondering what experiences (or how to get started) with configuring > features and roles (some of which may require reboot) on Windows 2008R2 > (and other versions) that others might have had. > > Manually, I have experimented with DISM and ServerManagerCmd.exe on > Win2k8r2. I found DISM to be quite dismal as it doesn't do any dependency > resolution, so it can install partial orphaned components, and it's > multi-line record format is hard to parse. I found out that > ServerManagerCmd supports the full dependencies, such that if you install a > component in the hierarchy, it will install all the prereqs. Also, if > there are any cross dependencies, it will resolve those as well, and > install everything that you would install from the GUI. And when you print > out what is installed, it presents it in a checklist tree format that > matches the GUI and behavior of Windows. > > A good scenario is to install ASP.NET, which will require IIS7, and have > some requirements of features in other areas. > > What I would like to have ideally is to have this behavior supported > somehow, which would be ala RPM-like on Windows. Any thoughts or > experiences? > I don't have a ton of experience in this realm but you may want to checkout the DISM type that Nan wrote[1], it looks like there's a few issues filed against it (like you said DISM can be a pain), but I know he was using it to set up vSphere[2] (which might be a good example if you want to look at puppetizing a full windows server stack). As far as an RPM-like service for windows I don't know of one. Though Chocolatey, more like homebrew on OSX, and it's provider[3] is what I use whenever I can. They seem to have a recipe for installing ASP.NET[4] (but I haven't tried it). Josh is also working on a reboot type which you may want to give a try[5]. Sorry I don't have more best practices to offer, though hopefully those tools can help you out. - Justin 1. http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/dism 2. https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/vcenter 3. https://github.com/rismoney/puppet-chocolatey 4. http://chocolatey.org/packages?q=asp 5. https://github.com/joshcooper/puppetlabs-reboot/ > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
