Installer type for Windows Package ‘autologon’ not specified and cannot be determined from file extension ‘exe’

Chef Infra (archive)
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“Installer type for Windows Package ‘autologon’ not specified and cannot be determined from file extension ‘exe’

      Resource Declaration:
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      # In C:/Users/kitchen/AppData/Local/Temp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/rtest/recipes/windows.rb

       26: windows_package ‘autologon’ do
       27:   source “#{node[‘rtest’][‘remote_root_url’]}/autologon/3.10/Autologon.exe”
       28: end
       29:
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Generally the advice I'd give with an error message like this is to look at the windows_package resource documentation: https://docs.chef.io/resource_windows_package.html ...

If Chef cannot detect the package type to install, you need to specify it using the installer_type property (most likely, setting it to :custom) and also provide the relevant unattended options (e.g. options '/q').

But it looks like you are installing Autologon, as in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon - in this case it's more likely that Autologon.exe is the actual executable rather than an installer, and you either need to run it once with the /accepteula flag, or set the following registry key before the first run:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sysinternals\Autologon]
"EulaAccepted"=dword:00000001

It might be better/easier in your case to install from the chocolatey package autologon: https://chocolatey.org/packages/autologon where this is all done for you.

Stuart