community.windows.win_webpicmd – Installs packages using Web Platform Installer command-line

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.3.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

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

Synopsis

• Installs packages using Web Platform Installer command-line (http://www.iis.net/learn/install/web-platform-installer/web-platform-installer-v4-command-line-webpicmdexe-rtw-release).

• Must be installed and present in PATH (see chocolatey.chocolatey.win_chocolatey module; ‘webpicmd’ is the package name, and you must install ‘lessmsi’ first too)?

• Install IIS first (see ansible.windows.win_feature module).

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name string / required		Name of the package to be installed.

Notes

Note

• Accepts EULAs and suppresses reboot - you will need to check manage reboots yourself (see ansible.windows.win_reboot module)

See Also

See also

ansible.windows.win_package

The official documentation on the ansible.windows.win_package module.

Examples

- name: Install URLRewrite2.
  community.windows.win_webpicmd:
    name: URLRewrite2

Authors

• Peter Mounce (@petemounce)