Re: [BangPypers] Silent installation of Active Directory server using Python

2013-05-26 Thread Ashutosh Narayan
@Ram, Thanks for pointing this out. I will better use Chef. There would be some configuration file to which "dcpromo" wizard writes to. I have to find it. I can then create a template of it and execute them using Chef. @Baiju, I have to give some more thought on how to use Salt. Thanks for the l

Re: [BangPypers] Silent installation of Active Directory server using Python

2013-05-24 Thread Baiju M
You may consider using Salt (Python based remote execution and configuration management tool): http://docs.saltstack.com/ Windows installers are available here: http://docs.saltstack.com/topics/installation/windows.html On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Ashutosh Narayan wrote: > Hi folks, > > I

Re: [BangPypers] Silent installation of Active Directory server using Python

2013-05-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
You would be better off configuring AD using power shell scripts. You could always trigger these using python, if you want. I don't know if func has been ported to Windows yet, but I've used chef on Windows, and I know that puppet works too. Ram On May 24, 2013 6:57 PM, "Ashutosh Narayan" wrote:

[BangPypers] Silent installation of Active Directory server using Python

2013-05-24 Thread Ashutosh Narayan
Hi folks, I have to do a silent installation of Active Directory (AD) on Windows. AFAIK Fabric is one such tool to do do. Say, dcpromo is a command to setup AD, it opens up a wizard and we fill details. Now how can I setup AD on Windows using Python scripts Can somebody throw some light on how can