Errors during feature install on Windows 2019

[Andy-Adrian]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 6.19.1
• Ruby: 2.5.8p224
• Distribution: Windows 2019
• Module version: 3.2.3-RC0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

windowsfeature { 'AD-Domain-Services':
ensure => present,
installmanagementtools => true,
}

What are you seeing

Feature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagementTools' returned 1: Install-WindowsFeature : Win32 internal error "Access is denied" 0x5 occurred while reading the console output buffer.
Contact Microsoft Customer Support Services.
At line:1 char:30

• ... verManager; Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagem ...

•             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : ReadError: (:) [Install-WindowsFeature], HostException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : ReadConsoleOutput,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand
    Error: /Stage[main]/Domain_controller/Windowsfeature[AD-Domain-Services]/ensure: change from 'absent' to 'present' failed:
    Execution of 'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe Import-Module ServerManager; Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagementTools' returned 1: Install-WindowsFeature : Win32 internal error "Access is denied" 0x5 occurred while reading the console output buffer.
    Contact Microsoft Customer Support Services.
    At line:1 char:30
• ... verManager; Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagem ...

•             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : ReadError: (:) [Install-WindowsFeature], HostException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : ReadConsoleOutput,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand

What behaviour did you expect instead

AD-DomainServices feature installed without error

Output log

Feature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagementTools' returned 1: Install-WindowsFeature : Win32 internal error "Access is denied" 0x5 occurred while reading the console output buffer.
Contact Microsoft Customer Support Services.
At line:1 char:30

• ... verManager; Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagem ...

•             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : ReadError: (:) [Install-WindowsFeature], HostException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : ReadConsoleOutput,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand
    Error: /Stage[main]/Domain_controller/Windowsfeature[AD-Domain-Services]/ensure: change from 'absent' to 'present' failed:
    Execution of 'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe Import-Module ServerManager; Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagementTools' returned 1: Install-WindowsFeature : Win32 internal error "Access is denied" 0x5 occurred while reading the console output buffer.
    Contact Microsoft Customer Support Services.
    At line:1 char:30
• ... verManager; Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services -IncludeManagem ...

•             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : ReadError: (:) [Install-WindowsFeature], HostException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : ReadConsoleOutput,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand

Any additional information you'd like to impart

This is due to PowerShell attempting to display a progress bar to a non-interactive connection. Setting $ProgressPreference='SilentlyContinue' prior to the call to Install-WindowsFeature will resolve the problem. I suspect the same issue occurs during Uninstall-WindowsFeature as well, and that call will also need the progress bar to be bypassed.