[chef] windows_service resource multiple actions?

[David Sopscak < >]

I need to insure two things with respect to the Windows Time Service: it should be configured to run automatically and it must be started. If no action is taken in a recipe, the node comes up with the service set to manual and stopped. So I think the recipe must take two actions, but I can't seem to reliably get the desired behavior.

Initially, I thought each resource could only take one action, so I used:

windows_service 'Configure Windows Time' do

  service_name 'W32Time'    

  action :configure_startup

  startup_type :automatic

end

windows_service 'Start Windows Time' do

  service_name 'W32Time' 

  action :start  

end

That seemed to update the startup type to automatic, but did not start it. After further research, I got the impression that a single resource could have multiple actions, so I tried:

windows_service 'Configure Windows Time' do

  service_name 'W32Time'    

  action :configure_startup

  startup_type :automatic

  action :start

end

That got it started, but left the startup type as manual.

How do I effectively take two actions on this service resource?