Consolidate Windows Server Feature discovery into a single artifact

[sixeyed]

@pcgeek86 is there a reason for having multiple Discover/Generate steps, each for an explicit Windows Feature? Could we have a generic step that discovers all installed features with Get-WindowsFeature ... | Where Installed and a generic generate which does Add-WindowsFeature for all the installed features?

I think those commands are also available for 2008R2 so potentially gives the tool a wider reach.

[pcgeek86]

@sixeyed Good question. There are certainly multiple ways of approaching this. However, certain Windows Features actually have deeper configuration that goes into them.

Right now, I see a couple of different options available to move forward:

• Option 1: Generalize all Windows Server Features as a single artifact
• Option 2: Keep Windows Server Features as separate artifacts, and include deeper inspection of each Windows Server Feature in its corresponding artifact.

What do you think?

[sixeyed]

I would incline to do both. Option 1 gives a lot of value quickly with a
horizontal sweep. Then we can add more depth incrementally with new
features - IIS website setup, MSMQ queues etc, which we could prioritise
separately.

Also I think listing all the features in one hit in the Dockerfile puts
users in a good place to trim out anything they're not using.

On 14 Sep 2016 17:33, "Trevor Sullivan" notifications@github.com wrote:

@sixeyed https://github.com/sixeyed Good question. There are certainly
multiple ways of approaching this. However, certain Windows Features
actually have deeper configuration that goes into them.

Right now, I see a couple of different options available to move forward:

• Option 1: Generalize all Windows Server Features as a single
  artifact
• Option 2: Keep Windows Server Features as separate artifacts, and
  include deeper inspection of each Windows Server Feature in its
  corresponding artifact.

What do you think?

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