community.windows.win_rds_rap module – Manage Resource Authorization Policies (RAP) on a Remote Desktop Gateway server

Note

This module is part of the community.windows collection (version 2.3.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_rds_rap.

Synopsis

  • Creates, removes and configures a Remote Desktop resource authorization policy (RD RAP).

  • A RD RAP allows you to specify the network resources (computers) that users can connect to remotely through a Remote Desktop Gateway server.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • Windows Server 2008R2 (6.1) or higher.

  • The Windows Feature “RDS-Gateway” must be enabled.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

allowed_ports

list / elements=string

List of port numbers through which connections are allowed for this policy.

To allow connections through any port, specify ‘any’.

computer_group

string

The computer group name that is associated with this resource authorization policy (RAP).

This is required when computer_group_type is rdg_group or ad_network_resource_group.

computer_group_type

string

The computer group type:

rdg_group: RD Gateway-managed group

ad_network_resource_group: Active Directory Domain Services network resource group

allow_any: Allow users to connect to any network resource.

Choices:

  • "rdg_group"

  • "ad_network_resource_group"

  • "allow_any"

description

string

Optional description of the resource authorization policy.

name

string / required

Name of the resource authorization policy.

state

string

The state of resource authorization policy.

If absent will ensure the policy is removed.

If present will ensure the policy is configured and exists.

If enabled will ensure the policy is configured, exists and enabled.

If disabled will ensure the policy is configured, exists, but disabled.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "disabled"

  • "enabled"

  • "present" ← (default)

user_groups

list / elements=string

List of user groups that are associated with this resource authorization policy (RAP). A user must belong to one of these groups to access the RD Gateway server.

Required when a new RAP is created.

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_rds_cap

Manage Connection Authorization Policies (CAP) on a Remote Desktop Gateway server.

community.windows.win_rds_rap

Manage Resource Authorization Policies (RAP) on a Remote Desktop Gateway server.

community.windows.win_rds_settings

Manage main settings of a Remote Desktop Gateway server.

Examples

- name: Create a new RDS RAP
  community.windows.win_rds_rap:
    name: My RAP
    description: Allow all users to connect to any resource through ports 3389 and 3390
    user_groups:
      - BUILTIN\users
    computer_group_type: allow_any
    allowed_ports:
      - 3389
      - 3390
    state: enabled

Authors

  • Kevin Subileau (@ksubileau)