I recently had to setup Fabric (http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.0/) for doing deployment from my Windows machine at home.
Setting it up under Linux is very very easy but for some reasons there are a number of
issues you have to overcome when installing on Windows. I followed this page to start:

http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.0/installation.html

First up a standard Python install (I used 2.6.2) and setup tools 0.6c11:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

and create a simple fabric script (fabfile.py)

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from fabric.api import local, env, put
env.hosts = ["elephant@babar.net:40"]
env.show = ['debug']
def deploy():
	print "Deploying...";
	put("fabtest.txt", "/tmp/fabtest.txt");
	print "All Done...";

From there:

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easy_install fabric

will result in:

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...
Installed f:\python26\lib\site-packages\fabric-0.9.0-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for fabric
Searching for pycrypto>=1.9
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycrypto/
Reading http://pycrypto.sourceforge.net
Reading http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto
Best match: pycrypto 2.0.1
Downloading http://www.amk.ca/files/python/crypto/pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz
Processing pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz
Running pycrypto-2.0.1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir f:\docume~1\admini~1\loc
als~1\temp\easy_install-clrpu1\pycrypto-2.0.1\egg-dist-tmp-1wszmf
error: Setup script exited with error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

You can solve this in a number of ways, the easiest of which is to install the binary for pycrypto manually from here:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/downloads/pycrypto-2.0.1.win32-py2.6.exe

Next, try running fabric using: fab -f fabfile.py deploy. This results in:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Python26\Scripts\fab-script.py", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('fabric==0.9.0', 'console_scripts', 'fab')()
  File "f:\python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\pkg_resources.p
y", line 277, in load_entry_point
  File "f:\python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\pkg_resources.p
y", line 2180, in load_entry_point
  File "f:\python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\pkg_resources.p
y", line 1913, in load
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric\main.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric\api.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric\context_managers.py", line 12, in <module>
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric\state.py", line 125, in <module>
  File "build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric\state.py", line 74, in _get_system_username
 
ImportError: No module named win32api

Install the pywin32 extensions from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/

and finally run fabric again (fab -f fabfile.py deploy), the script should run fine this time…

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All Done...
Done.
Disconnecting from babar.net:40... done.