I tried changing the port to 5985. I do notice that it uses http now, but with the same results.
[zenoss@zenoss-dev2 ansible-stuff]$ ansible -i inventory windows7-ansible4 -m setup -vvvv <windows7-ansible4> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: stew on PORT 5985 TO windows7-ansible4 <windows7-ansible4> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=http://windows7-ansible4:5985/wsman <windows7-ansible4> REMOTE_MODULE setup <windows7-ansible4> EXEC (New-Item -Type Directory -Path $env:temp -Name "ansible-tmp-1433211528.68-218620442194755").FullName | Write-Host -Separator ''; <windows7-ansible4> WINRM EXEC 'PowerShell' ['-NoProfile', '-NonInteractive', '-EncodedCommand', 'KABOAGUAdwAtAEkAdABlAG0AIAAtAFQAeQBwAGUAIABEAGkAcgBlAGMAdABvAHIAeQAgAC0AUABhAHQAaAAgACQAZQBuAHYAOgB0AGUAbQBwACAALQBOAGEAbQBlACAAIgBhAG4AcwBpAGIAbABlAC0AdABtAHAALQAxADQAMwAzADIAMQAxADUAMgA4AC4ANgA4AC0AMgAxADgANgAyADAANAA0ADIAMQA5ADQANwA1ADUAIgApAC4ARgB1AGwAbABOAGEAbQBlACAAfAAgAFcAcgBpAHQAZQAtAEgAbwBzAHQAIAAtAFMAZQBwAGEAcgBhAHQAbwByACAAJwAnADsA'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py", line 161, in exec_command result = self._winrm_exec(cmd_parts[0], cmd_parts[1:], from_exec=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py", line 122, in _winrm_exec self.shell_id = self.protocol.open_shell() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", line 121, in open_shell root = ET.fromstring(rs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 963, in XML parser.feed(text) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1245, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1188, in _end return self._target.end(self._fixname(tag)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1096, in end self._last.tag, tag) AssertionError: end tag mismatch (expected ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒n▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒羵▒▒ ▒, got ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒n▒▒2B▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒⸾) windows7-ansible4 | FAILED => failed to exec cmd PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -EncodedCommand KABOAGUAdwAtAEkAdABlAG0AIAAtAFQAeQBwAGUAIABEAGkAcgBlAGMAdABvAHIAeQAgAC0AUABhAHQAaAAgACQAZQBuAHYAOgB0AGUAbQBwACAALQBOAGEAbQBlACAAIgBhAG4AcwBpAGIAbABlAC0AdABtAHAALQAxADQAMwAzADIAMQAxADUAMgA4AC4ANgA4AC0AMgAxADgANgAyADAANAA0ADIAMQA5ADQANwA1ADUAIgApAC4ARgB1AGwAbABOAGEAbQBlACAAfAAgAFcAcgBpAHQAZQAtAEgAbwBzAHQAIAAtAFMAZQBwAGEAcgBhAHQAbwByACAAJwAnADsA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/298fd23c-999b-4d34-87e0-8e382a5a88b4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.