# Will Ansible work in case of Windows Jump Server?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/will-ansible-work-in-case-of-windows-jump-server/31677>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/will-ansible-work-in-case-of-windows-jump-server/31677 "2019-11-18T14:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![pratik\_ghodekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@pratik\_ghodekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pratik_ghodekar)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/will-ansible-work-in-case-of-windows-jump-server/31677/1 "2019-11-18T14:14:27Z")

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Hello,  
I wanted to know if we have Windows jump server instead or bastion server will Ansible work? if yes how can we achieve this

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**Author:** ![jborean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jborean/32/1525_2.png) [@jborean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jborean)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/will-ansible-work-in-case-of-windows-jump-server/31677/2 "2019-11-18T23:15:35Z")

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Unfortunately no, WinRM doesn’t support any bastion options. The psrp connection plugin does offer a proxy option which you can potentially use for a SOCKS proxy as a bastion host but that requires SSH and for you to set that up before hand.

Thanks

Jordan

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**Author:** ![pratik\_ghodekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@pratik\_ghodekar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pratik_ghodekar)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/will-ansible-work-in-case-of-windows-jump-server/31677/3 "2019-11-19T09:47:17Z")

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On another forum i have been suggested to use Nginx. [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/12054](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/12054)  
what do you say?

Regards,  
Pratik