skolo/win/ansible/swarming-bot-settings.yml

---
# Disable Windows Update feature updates, Windows Defender, and disk indexing.
- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: Enable deferring feature updates in Windows Update
    win_regedit:
      path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\PolicyState
      name: "DeferFeatureUpdates"
      data: 1
      type: dword
  - name: Set deferral period for feature updates to 365 in Windows Update UpdatePolicy
    win_regedit:
      path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\PolicyState
      name: "FeatureUpdatesDeferralInDays"
      data: 365
      type: dword
  - name: Set deferral period for feature updates to 365 in Windows Update UX Settings
    win_regedit:
      path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings
      name: "DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodInDays"
      data: 365
      type: dword
  # We do not defer quality updates because they rarely cause problems.
  - name: Disable deferring quality updates in Windows Update
    win_regedit:
      path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\PolicyState
      name: "DeferQualityUpdates"
      data: 0
      type: dword
  - name: Set deferral period for quality updates to 0 in Windows Update UpdatePolicy
    win_regedit:
      path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UpdatePolicy\PolicyState
      name: "QualityUpdatesDeferralInDays"
      data: 0
      type: dword
  - name: Set deferral period for quality updates to 0 in Windows Update UX Settings
    win_regedit:
      path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings
      name: "DeferQualityUpdatesPeriodInDays"
      data: 0
      type: dword
  # Unlike Windows Server, Windows Defender can not be uninstalled on Windows 10. Windows also
  # tends to re-enable it if it's disabled. Instead we exclude the entire drive from scanning and
  # disable specific features. Docs here:
  # https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/defender/Set-MpPreference?view=win10-ps
  - name: Disable Windows Defender
    win_shell: "Set-MpPreference -ExclusionPath C:\\ -DisableBehaviorMonitoring $True
      -DisableBlockAtFirstSeen $True -DisableIOAVProtection $True
      -DisableIntrusionPreventionSystem $True -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $True
      -MAPSReporting Disabled -PUAProtection Disabled"
  - name: Disable disk indexing
    win_service:
      name: WSearch
      start_mode: disabled
      state: stopped