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Puppet Deepens Windows Integration

Puppet today announced it has extended support for Windows environments across its portfolio of IT automation tools by adding an instance of the open source Chocolately package manager and a Group Policy Migration capability that enables multiple Windows configurations to be tracked simultaneously. In addition, Puppet has extended its support for Microsoft tools by adding a Puppet PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Builder module, through which the Powershell tools Microsoft relies on to configure operating systems are directly exposed.

By relying on Puppet tools to automate both Linux and Windows platforms, an opportunity to reduce the total cost of IT also presents itself as organizations look to either limit or reduce IT headcount, she noted.

The depth of the Puppet portfolio enables IT organizations to also apply IT automation to operating systems and now to applications via Chocolately.

However, as IT automation tools become more accessible to the average IT administrator, there may come a day soon when broad swaths of IT systems deployed by midmarket IT organizations will finally be automated.