I just finished setting up Ansible to manage a bunch of Windows laptops. I basically just followed the example of Dag Wieers here[1][2], except that additionall

I just finished setting up Ansible to manage a bunch of Windows laptops. I basically just followed the example of Dag Wieers here[1][2], except that additionally every laptop is roaming with unstable IP addresses. So I used PageKite[3] to deal with that, although it would have been much easier if ansible-pull worked on Windows. I know every experienced Windows admin would probably look poorly on my setup, but it feels really good to finally have some level of automation in managing these machines. It took me years to figure out a sane strategy under constraints like: OEM and retail software licenses only, employees retain admin privileges, no corporate network or VPN, unstable IP addresses, and (perhaps most importantly) no budget. With constraints like that, it would also be a pretty good setup if you provide tech support to family and friends, as long as they trust you to backdoor their laptop. [1]: https://www.ansible.com/managing-windows-desktops-with-ansible https://www.ansible.com/managing-windows-desktops-with-ansib... [2]: https://github.com/crombeen/ansible https://github.com/crombeen/ansible [3]: https://pagekite.net/ https://pagekite.net/