[chef] Re: Windows system standard program for unzip-ing archives?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Nov 21, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Dylan K. Grafmyre 
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> Use the DSC Archive. However, You need Powershell 4.0 installed on the 
> boxes to use the dsc_script resource which will work on 2008/2012
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> The last example shows the code for using Archive via dsc_script. 
> https://docs.getchef.com/resource_dsc_script.html
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> You will need another option for Windows 2003 servers.

The suggestion from the client is to use WinRar, which should give us a 
solution that will work for both Win2k3 and Win2k8.  For the moment, I'm 
assuming that this is either pre-installed on the machines we're using, or we 
can install this from an internal company-approved location.

I would prefer to use standard system-provided resources to handle this kind 
of thing, but I have a stronger preference to use the same solution on all 
the Windows variants we have to support.  I don't mind installing additional 
tools, so long as they're coming from appropriate security-approved sources.

But is there something else that I'm obviously missing?


Thanks!

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