##knife windows fails
If you want to use the Chef knife windows, you must be able to run WinRM. WinRM needs to be installed, and then configured correctly.
it is easy to configure winrm quickconfig -q
but that may fail, and on Winodws 8 the fix is non obvious:
PS C:\Windows\system32> winrm quickconfig -q
WinRM service is already running on this machine.
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