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.
>>
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>> 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
>
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