Once all the system requirements have been met, as detailed previously, the task that remains is to enable the WinRM listener. With this achieved, we can actually run Ansible tasks against the Windows host itself! WinRM can run over both HTTP, and HTTPS protocols, and, while it is quickest and easiest to get up and running over plain HTTP, this leaves you vulnerable to packet sniffers and the potential for sensitive data to be revealed on the network. This is especially true if basic authentication is being used. By default, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Windows does not allow remote management with WinRM over HTTP or using basic authentication.
Sometimes, basic authentication is sufficient (for example, in a development ...
