Knife windows winrm hasn't worked since Patch Tuesday

[codesilverback]

I can connect using winrs, but winrm is no good anymore. I'm just getting timeouts.

Servers created at Rackspace last week work fine, servers created since Wednesday, not so much.

knife rackspace server create

creates the servers fine, but bootstrapping fails to connect.

Anyone else experiencing this?

[muktaa]

We are working on this issue. A new knife-windows release can be expected soon.

[codesilverback]

Is there a short term workaround? Because we are totally unable to build and bootstrap servers through our regular knife-rackspace scripts. What can I do to help?

[btm]

@codesilverback what error are you seeings? Have you tried with knife winrm -V -V?

Have you tried 0.8.0? You're probably running into KB2918614 which was tracked in #96 and fixed in #101. That was released in 0.8.0 via 569c267. KB3000988 is also supposed to fix the issues we were seeing in KB2918614 too.

0.8.0 also added support for negotiate authentication when run from a windows workstation, which makes it a lot easier to establish a connection without turning off a lot of encryption/authentication features on the server. There were some regressions like https://github.com/opscode/winrm-s/issues/13 and #108 which are being worked on right now to produce an 0.8.2 release.

[codesilverback]

Actually, upgrading to 0.8.0 stopped us completely. Downgrading back to 0.6.0 lets us at least two stage our Rackspace deploys: Build the server, time out on the bootstrap, then separately knife bootstrap the node. Not pretty, but it works for now.

[adamedx]

@codesilverback I'm sorry about the regression in knife 0.8.0. We are close to releasing a patch for that -- the code for it is already in master.

Does kb3000988 listed above unblock you on knife 0.6.0?

[mitchelldavis]

@adamedx, I was able to confirm that installing kb3000988 after KB2918614 does allow the chef package to install.

[adamedx]

Resolving this since the release below + the MSFT kb should prevent this: https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/releases/tag/0.8.2.