Ansible Role: Upgrade Powershell

An ansible role to upgrade Windows PowerShell to version 5.1.

It uses Chocolatey to upgrade PowerShell and Windows task scheduler to launch the upgrade after a reboot. It allows to not break Ansible WinRM connection during the process.

Compatibility

This role is compatible with Windows version:

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2

Current version of PowerShell is checked before the upgrade. If version is not 3.0, 4.0 or 5.0, nothing is changed.

With Windows 2016 and later, the role does nothing. No error is raised.

Role Variables

No variable should be changed.

Dependencies

No dependency.

Example Playbook

- hosts: windows_servers
  roles:
     - role: jpmat296.upgrade_powershell

License

BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Jean-Pierre Matsumoto.