I created this PR to document the proposal in the plugin: https://github.com/jenkinsci/windows-slaves-plugin/pull/36
Thanks, Alex On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:03 AM Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 6:11:39 PM UTC-6 slide wrote: > >> Cross posting to the dev group to see if there is any feedback there. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: slide <Unknown> >> Date: Friday, May 6, 2022 at 3:13:33 PM UTC-7 >> Subject: WMI Windows Agents plugin >> To: Jenkins User Mailing List <Unknown> >> >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> The WMI Windows Agents plugin uses a library called j-interop. This >> library was last released in 2010. Microsoft has made some changes to the >> DCOM protocol since this time. One particular change is highlighted in >> https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-67604, currently you can >> override this behavior in the registry, but in March of 2023, that will no >> longer be possible. This means that the WMI Windows Agent plugin may become >> unusable, unless someone who knows enough about DCOM internals can update >> j-interop with support for the new features (j-interop supports DCOM 5.4, >> the current version is 5.7 and has several additions/changes). With Windows >> Server 2019 and Windows 10, SSH is a viable option for Windows agents. >> >> I would like to recommend deprecating the WMI Windows Agents plugin by >> March 2023. I think this gives enough time for people to migrate to either >> SSH or the Windows Cloud plugin (which uses a more modern remote management >> interface, WinRM). Basically this would mean the option to "Let Jenkins >> control this Windows agent as a Windows service" would no longer be >> available. >> >> Any thoughts on this? >> >> > I agree that we should deprecate the WMI Windows Agents plugin. SSH > agents on Windows are working great for me. > > Mark Waite > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/28c07a39-3724-497c-9ced-444a45b4e608n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/28c07a39-3724-497c-9ced-444a45b4e608n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPiUgVfu836RvOPcSrgEchbTuDtCeiuajq_CAYd1EdzyoHpqYg%40mail.gmail.com.
