require 'puppet/provider/exec' Puppet::Type.type(:exec).provide :windows, :parent => Puppet::Provider::Exec do confine :operatingsystem => :windows defaultfor :operatingsystem => :windows desc <<-'EOT' Execute external binaries on Windows systems. As with the `posix` provider, this provider directly calls the command with the arguments given, without passing it through a shell or performing any interpolation. To use shell built-ins --- that is, to emulate the `shell` provider on Windows --- a command must explicitly invoke the shell: exec {'echo foo': command => 'cmd.exe /c echo "foo"', } If no extension is specified for a command, Windows will use the `PATHEXT` environment variable to locate the executable. **Note on PowerShell scripts:** PowerShell's default `restricted` execution policy doesn't allow it to run saved scripts. To run PowerShell scripts, specify the `remotesigned` execution policy as part of the command: exec { 'test': path => 'C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0', command => 'powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned -file C:/test.ps1', } EOT # Verify that we have the executable def checkexe(command) exe = extractexe(command) if absolute_path?(exe) if !Puppet::FileSystem.exist?(exe) raise ArgumentError, "Could not find command '#{exe}'" elsif !File.file?(exe) raise ArgumentError, "'#{exe}' is a #{File.ftype(exe)}, not a file" end return end if resource[:path] Puppet::Util.withenv :PATH => resource[:path].join(File::PATH_SEPARATOR) do return if which(exe) end end raise ArgumentError, "Could not find command '#{exe}'" end end