Puppet, Windows, and UAC

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Published on 2014-06-05T21:20:54Z Indexed on 2014/06/05 21:26 UTC
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Is it possible to use Puppet on Windows where UAC is enabled? Does Puppet have any method for automatically saying yes to UAC prompts for a software install? My module does the following workflow:

Downloads an MSI file locally from the Puppetmaster

Creates a local batch file using template function which does cmd.exe /c msifile.msi /i /quiet ....

Runs bat file in an Exec.

Unfortunately, it fails due to UAC, I am wondering how people are working around UAC in their Windows Puppet environments. The Puppet documentation seems to only talk about Puppet's own executable in regards to UAC.

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