# Working with Ansible on Windows Hosts

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/working-with-ansible-on-windows-hosts/29013>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/working-with-ansible-on-windows-hosts/29013 "2018-11-12T21:07:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/working-with-ansible-on-windows-hosts/29013/21 "2018-11-14T22:29:28Z")

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thank you.  
May be i made a chilly mistake in writing my playbook, it is giving syntax error

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/working-with-ansible-on-windows-hosts/29013/22 "2018-11-14T22:37:09Z")

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Looks like you have extra white space between hyphen and name

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**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/working-with-ansible-on-windows-hosts/29013/23 "2018-11-14T22:40:59Z")

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no luck still same error

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