win_updates: Async doesn't work on 2008 and 2008 R2, doesn't work on 2008

[jborean93]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

win_updates

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.5

CONFIGURATION

N/A

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Server 2008 not using Basic or CredSSP breaks the module altogether (become doesn't work)
Server 2008 and 2008 R2 won't work with async at all

SUMMARY

In Ansible 2.5 we changed the win_updates module to always run on become. This has the unfortunately side effect of breaking async for all Server 2008 and 2008 R2 hosts as async and become doesn't work on those hosts. It also breaks it on Server 2008 when not using basic or CredSSP auth as become doesn't work.

We may ultimately need to re-add in the scheduled tasks again and go on that path if become is not explicitly set.

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• lib/ansible/modules/windows/win_updates.ps1

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