Bootstrapping Chef on Windows systems requires an additional knife plugin, knife-windows This plugin uses WinRM to allow you to call native objects in Windows remotely.
The plugin adds a few subcommands, notably knife bootstrap windows winrm
and knife bootstrap windows ssh
, as well as custom bootstrap templates designed for Windows.
Once you have installed the knife-windows plugin, you should be able to bootstrap your Windows system using a command similar to:
knife bootstrap windows winrm ipaddress -x Administrator -P 'super_secret_password'