Windows Screen Resolution Cookbook

Sets headless screen resolution on Windows.

It does this by:

• creating a new user called rdp_local
• creating a startup script to RDP into the specified user account at specified resolution (default is 1920x1080)
• adding a firewall rule to open RDP port 3389
• configuring auto-logon to login as rdp_local on reboot

Note that auto-logon requires a username and password and that the password is stored unencrypted under
windows registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.

Tested on Amazon Windows Server 2012 R2 AMI.

Requirements

• Chef 11.6+ (registry_key resource)
• Windows Server 2008 R2+ (due to usage of window_home)

Platforms

• Windows

Dependencies

• windows_autologin
• windows_home

Usage

Include default recipe in run list or in another cookbook to set the screen resolution.
The username and password must be set in order to user this cookbook.

Attributes

• username - Username of account to remote login as (required).
• password - Password of account to remote login as (required).
• width - Display width in pixels. Defaults to 1920.
• height - Display height in pixels. Defaults to 1080.
• target - Identifies the computer or domain name that username and password account will be associated with for remote login. Defaults to localhost.
• rdp_autologin - Logon as RDP user automatically on reboot. Defaults to true. Note that the password is stored unencrypted under windows registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
• rdp_username - RDP username. Defaults to rdp_local.
• rdp_password - RDP password. Defaults to password of account to remote login as, if nil.
• rdp_domain - RDP domain. Defaults to nil.

Examples

Set newuser's screen resolution to 1920x1080 (default)

node.override['windows_screenresolution']['username'] = 'newuser'
node.override['windows_screenresolution']['password'] = my_secret

include_recipe 'windows_screenresolution::default'

or

windows_screenresolution 'newuser do
  password my_secret
  action :run
end

Set newuser's screen resolution to 1366x768

node.override['windows_screenresolution']['username'] = 'newuser'
node.override['windows_screenresolution']['password'] = 'N3wPassW0Rd'
node.override['windows_screenresolution']['width'] = 1366
node.override['windows_screenresolution']['height'] = 768

include_recipe 'windows_screenresolution::default'

or

windows_screenresolution 'newuser do
  password my_secret
  width 1366
  height 768  
  action :run
end

Getting Help

• Ask specific questions on Stack Overflow.
• Report bugs and discuss potential features in Github issues.

Contributing

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.

License

MIT - see the accompanying LICENSE
file for details.