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windows - add docs for UNC path in PSModulePath error #68421

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Expand Up @@ -436,6 +436,20 @@ Sometimes an installer may restart the WinRM or HTTP service and cause this erro
best way to deal with this is to use ``win_psexec`` from another
Windows host.

Failure to Load Builtin Modules
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If powershell fails with an error message similar to ``The 'Out-String' command was found in the module 'Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility', but the module could not be loaded.``
then there could be a problem trying to access all the paths specified by the ``PSModulePath`` environment variable.
A common cause of this issue is that the ``PSModulePath`` environment variable contains a UNC path to a file share and
because of the double hop/credential delegation issue the Ansible process cannot access these folders. The way around
this problems is to either:

* Remove the UNC path from the ``PSModulePath`` environment variable, or
* Use an authentication option that supports credential delegation like ``credssp`` or ``kerberos`` with credential delegation enabled

See `KB4076842 <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4076842>`_ for more information on this problem.


Windows SSH Setup
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Ansible 2.8 has added an experimental SSH connection for Windows managed nodes.
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