Nordstrom has been using Chef to automate Windows environments. Come by this talk to get some tips and tricks for managing your Windows-based environment with Chef. Tips such as: Using Mixlib::Shellout and PowershellOut to execute Windows tools and scripts as a Domain user. Windows cookbook improvements, including Printer LWRP Diskpart cookbook Chef-keypass for better one-way encryption of data-bag secrets, including certs and passwords How to use Windows cookbook helpers Using the new Windows Registry resource in Chef 11 Windows Sysnative for correctly locating Windows programs Perf improvement numbers for Ruby 1.9.3 in Chef 11 for Windows Recommended Ohai plugins to disable