diff --git a/manifests/deploy.pp b/manifests/deploy.pp
index 8c89586..b575b9e 100644
--- a/manifests/deploy.pp
+++ b/manifests/deploy.pp
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   $password     = undef, #: https or ftp user password or https certificate password
   $environment  = undef, #: environment variable for settings such as http_proxy
   $strip        = undef, #: extract file with the --strip=X option. Only works with GNU tar.
+  $use_7zip     = false, #: alternative to unzip command on Windows
   $unzip_opts   = '',    #: additional options to pass the unzip command.
   $timeout      = undef, #: the time to wait for the file transfer to complete
   $user         = undef, #: extract file as this user
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
     group       => $group,
     environment => $environment,
     strip       => $strip,
+    use_7zip    => $use_7zip,
     unzip_opts  => $unzip_opts,
     subdir      => $caller_module_name,
     creates     => $creates,
diff --git a/manifests/extract.pp b/manifests/extract.pp
index d5242b2..d9496a3 100644
--- a/manifests/extract.pp
+++ b/manifests/extract.pp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   $group       = undef, #:  extract file as this group.
   $environment = undef, #: environment variables.
   $strip       = undef, #: extract file with the --strip=X option. Only works with GNU tar.
+  $use_7zip    = false, #: alternative to unzip command on Windows
   $unzip_opts  = '',    #: additional options to pass the unzip command.
   $subdir      = $caller_module_name #: subdir per module in staging directory.
 ) {
@@ -92,7 +93,11 @@
     }
 
     /.zip$/: {
-      $command = "unzip ${unzip_opts} ${source_path}"
+      if $use_7zip {
+        $command = "7z x ${source_path} ${unzip_opts}"
+      } else {
+        $command = "unzip ${unzip_opts} ${source_path}"
+      }
     }
 
     /(.war|.jar)$/: {