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Use case 1 – system update automation

This use case tackles the automation of Windows host systems and some application updates. We are going to make updates restricted to what the playbook asks the hosts to do by disabling auto update and only updating the permitted categories:

---- name: Windows updates management  hosts: windows  gather_facts: yes  tasks:   - name: Create the registry path for Windows Updates     win_regedit:       path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows      \WindowsUpdate\AU       state: present     ignore_errors: yes   - name: Add register key to disable Windows AutoUpdate     win_regedit:       path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows      \WindowsUpdate\AU       name: NoAutoUpdate       data: 1       type: dword     ignore_errors: yes - name: Make sure that the Windows ...