# How to do OS hardening and and install antivirus on my windows server using Ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-do-os-hardening-and-and-install-antivirus-on-my-windows-server-using-ansible/25113>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** windows, ubuntu\
**Created:** [July 28, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-do-os-hardening-and-and-install-antivirus-on-my-windows-server-using-ansible/25113 "2017-07-28T05:45:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![tarvinder7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tarvinder7](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tarvinder7)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-do-os-hardening-and-and-install-antivirus-on-my-windows-server-using-ansible/25113/1 "2017-07-28T05:45:12Z")

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I have configured and am able to ping from my control machine (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) to my Windows Server 2012.

Now i want to be able to do OS hardening and installing Antivirus software on my windows server.

Any help, external links or any other discussion on this. Please do inform. Thanks in advance.