Video from Atlanta TechStravaganza 2015: Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in your On-Premises Datacenter

This past Friday, I presented a session titled Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in your On-Premises Datacenter at Atlanta TechStravaganza 2015.

Fellow PowerShell MVP Stephen Owen took this photo as I was preparing for my session:

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Another fellow PowerShell MVP, Jonathan Walz of the PowerScripting Podcast, recorded all of the sessions in the PowerShell track which can be found on their YouTube channel.

Several presentations are included in each of the videos and mine is approximately the first 43 minutes of this video:

I received a question from one of the attendees of my session about using the Active Directory computer account ObjectGUID for the DSC LCM ConfigurationID. My response was that it wasn't a good idea and my opinion was based on a comment that one of the PowerShell team members made at the PowerShell Summit North America earlier this year. I've since followed up on that to find out why.

My DSC toolkit that I reference during the presentation can be downloaded as a module from my DSC repository on GitHub.

Here's the content of an email that I received from one of the attendees of my session:

"Really appreciated your session and presentation on DSC. I had looked at DSC about a year or so ago, and found the task a bit overwhelming. However, your session today made it far more approachable and I’ll be looking at implementing it with my work environment over the next couple of months, so thank you!"

It's comments like this that keep me motivated to share my knowledge with others.

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