Questions tagged [chef-windows]
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Chef Client For Windows Logging Not Working
Running my recipe from the command line....
O:\chef\cookbooks\wincfg>chef-client -L C:\chef\rds_deployment.log -l info -z -o wincfg::rds_deployment
A file C:\chef\rds_deployment.log does get created...but it's not containing the readable format…

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How to increase chef time out ..?
I need to install a software on windows 2008R2 machine which actually takes nearly 40 to 50 minutes .I am able to bootstrap and initiate the process. The installation has begun but after 30 minutes , chef is throwing an error .
ERROR:…

Mohan Karthik Sanagapalli
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Copy a directory from remote location in windows
what is the way to copy the entire directory from remote machine(windows) to my local machine(windows).
The methods i tried using in windows_batch resource
xcopy //machinename/foldername/* C:/ /s /e
xcopy \\machinename\foldername\* C:\ /s /e
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how to select radio buttons option while uninstalling in windows
I want to uninstall a software in windows using chef .While uninstalling ,there are 2 radio buttons , one for modify and other for remove .By default modify is selected , but my requirement is to select remove option.
How to do so .. ??
Can…

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Downloading a file from SVN using Chef on Windows
I'm having trouble getting chef to download a file I need to use in a recipe from an SVN server.
subversion "download installer" do
repository "http://svnrepourl/path/to/installer.msi"
revision "HEAD"
destination…

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