Category Archives: DSC

DSC update

Posted on Saturday 27 January 2018 by richardsiddaway

The PowerShell team have posted an update on what’s happening with DSC. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2018/01/26/dsc-planning-update-january-2018/ The interesting thing is the decoupling of the Local Configuration Manager from Windows. A new LCM that can use resources written in multiple languages sounds good – … Continue reading →

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Reverse DSC

Posted on Monday 30 October 2017 by richardsiddaway

DSC is a configuration management tool that first appeared in PowerShell v4 and was refined in PowerShell v5/5.1. Major changes are coming to DSC of which more later. DSC takes a configuration and applies it to a server. What about … Continue reading →

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DSC–the future?

Posted on Saturday 30 September 2017 by richardsiddaway

I was incredibly excited when I first saw DSC – it was in April 2013 as a special MVP only preview at the first PowerShell Summit – as a work in progress. Since that time my excitement has waned to … Continue reading →

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Build a better pull server

Posted on Monday 29 May 2017 by richardsiddaway

DSC functions in 2 modes – push (most basic) and pull. Creating a pull server is a non-trivial task and the out-of-the-box pull server has some issues. Some of the folks at powershell.org have decided its time to build a … Continue reading →

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DSC Configuring Sharing

Posted on Saturday 29 April 2017 by richardsiddaway

A new set of repositories on Github document a process for sharing end-to-end scenario based DSC configurations https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2017/04/28/dsc-configuration-sharing/ These are open to community involvement

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September 2016–DSC Resource updates

Posted on Friday 23 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

Two new modules of DSC resources are available: OfficeOnlineServerDsc SystemLocaleDsc A number of updates to existing resources have been made available. Details from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/09/21/dsc-resource-kit-september-release/

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Open source PowerShell and OMI

Posted on Saturday 3 September 2016 by richardsiddaway

  OMI – the Open Source CIM server is available on github https://github.com/Microsoft/omi This appears to be a later version than currently shown on the open group web site Combine this with open source PowerShell https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell and the DSC on … Continue reading →

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DSC and Nano Server

Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2016 by richardsiddaway

Nano Server is the minimalist version of Windows that Server 2016 introduces. I needed a target for DSC this afternoon so decided that I’d spin up a Nano Server instance – because they are very, very quick to create. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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DSC resource kit update–October 2015

Posted on Monday 26 October 2015 by richardsiddaway

The DSC resource kit is the primary place to look for DSC resources beyond those baked into Windows. An update to the resources in the kit has been announced. Some new resources and lots of bug fixes. see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/23/dsc-resource-kit-updates-are-here.aspx for … Continue reading →

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PowerShell DSC for Linux 1.1

Posted on Wednesday 30 September 2015 by richardsiddaway

PowerShell DSC for Linux 1.1 has been released. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/09/30/powershell-dsc-for-linux-version-1-1-is-now-available-and-new-linux-resources.aspx With bug fixes, support for the separation of configuration and node ids  and new resources this release makes it easier than ever to manage your Linux boxes through DSC

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