Automating Microsoft Windows with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
As trusted advisors with deep expertise in both Microsoft and Red Hat technologies, our partners are well positioned to help customers automate and consistently manage Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, and other critical IT workloads across their datacenter, clouds, and edge environments using Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform.
Join the partner webinar at 11:00 AM CET on March 26, 2026 to explore the partner opportunity and how to capitalize on it.
The opportunity for Red Hat partners
With ongoing changes to System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and public SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reducing to 47 days by 2029, now is the time to educate customers on how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can automate and standardize their Windows lifecycle operations.
By reducing complexity and repetitive mundane tasks, partners can help customers accelerate time to value across the following scenarios:
Windows patch management
- Ensuring consistency across systems
- Maintaining enterprise applications and their functions
- Cross-platform patching, configuration, and management of Windows applications
- Rebooting systems on-demand
Windows certificate management
- Minimizing manual tasks as SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes continue to shorten, ultimately reducing to 47 days in 2029
- Checking certificate validity across all servers
- Automating certificate lifecycles
- Installing certificates automatically
- Updating tasks with ITSM
Automating the Windows environment
- Managing Windows with consistency across environments
- Orchestrating existing PowerShell scripts and building automated workflows that integrate with other systems
- Integrating Active Directory to dynamically discover and manage Windows hosts
- Using advanced event-driven automation to respond automatically to changing conditions
Azure automation
- Automating cloud operations
- Provisioning, configuring and tearing down Azure instances
- Moving workloads where customers want them
Register for the upcoming event
Join the partner webinar at 11:00 AM CET on March 26, 2026 with Red Hat experts Steve Gaines and Ismail Dhaoui to learn more about the opportunity and see a live demo.
Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections
From provisioning and deployment, to managing IT Ops (Day 2), and orchestration, partners can help customers get up to speed faster using Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections for Microsoft Windows.
With the Windows Collection and Active Directory Collection, partners can help customers automate Windows lifecycle operations to simplify administrative tasks and:
- Deploy Windows consistently
- Improve performance and reliability
- Boost operation efficiency across teams
- Standardize skills on a single platform
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Contact
If you have questions or are ready to start engaging customers and prospects about automating Microsoft Windows with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, contact your Red Hat Partner Account Manager for support.
