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  • Video: Recreate MOF based DSC resources as Class based DSC resources

    calendar May 10, 2018 · DSC PowerShell Video  ·
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    Last month I presented a session on how to Recreate MOF based DSC resources as Class based DSC resources at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit in Seattle, Washington. The session seemed to be well received by the audience based on the feedback that I received from the attendees. The video from this presentation is …


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  • Create a Certificate to Encrypt MOF Passwords that’s Compatible with DSC in PowerShell version 5.0

    calendar Oct 13, 2016 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    I've previously written a blog article titled Use a certificate with PowerShell DSC to add a server to Active Directory without hard coding a password where I had created a certificate that was used to encrypt the password in a PowerShell version 4 DSC (Desired State Configuration) MOF file. The same procedure in …


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  • Simplifying my PowerShell version 5 Class Based DSC Resource for Configuring Remote Desktop

    calendar Oct 6, 2016 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    Last week I wrote a blog article about a PowerShell Desired State Configuration Class Based Resource for Configuring Remote Desktop. Since then I've discovered and learned a couple of new things about enumerations in PowerShell that can be used to simply the code even further. My original code used a couple of …


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  • PowerShell Desired State Configuration Class Based Resource for Configuring Remote Desktop

    calendar Sep 29, 2016 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    Prior to PowerShell version 5 being released, I had written a PowerShell version 4 compatible DSC (Desired State Configuration) resource named cMrRDP for configuring Remote Desktop. It can be found in my DSC respository on GitHub. The recommendation at that point was to use the letter "c" as the prefix for …


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  • Video: Creating a Custom PowerShell Toolkit to Demystify DSC

    calendar Apr 16, 2016 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell PowerShell Summit  ·
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    Last week, on Monday (April 4th, 2016), I presented a session at the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2016 on "Creating a Custom PowerShell Toolkit to Demystify the Intricacies of Desired State Configuration". The video from that presentation is now available: Here’s the abstract or synopsis for this …


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  • Solving DSC Problems on Windows 10 & Writing PowerShell Code that writes PowerShell Code for you

    calendar Nov 5, 2015 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell Windows 10  ·
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    I recently ran into a problem with DSC on Windows 10 when trying to create MOF files with DSC configurations that work on other operating systems. An error is generated when the friendly name for a DSC resource contains a dash and that friendly name is specified as a dependency for another resource. I know that only …


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

    calendar Aug 27, 2015 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    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: Another fellow PowerShell MVP, Jonathan Walz of the PowerScripting Podcast, …


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  • Deploy Desired State Configuration Resources with an SMB based Pull Server

    calendar May 14, 2015 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    So you've either downloaded DSC resources from GitHub or you've created some DSC resources of your own and the LCM (Local Configuration Manager) on the servers in your environment is set to use an SMB based DSC pull server. To automatically deploy those custom resources with an SMB pull server, they need to be zipped …


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  • Create a DSC SMB Pull Server with DSC and separate the Environmental Config from the Structural Config

    calendar May 7, 2015 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    The machines used in this blog article are running Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Both have the default version of PowerShell installed that shipped with those operating systems which is PowerShell version 4. The following configuration uses the xSmbShare and the PowerShellAccessControl DSC resources which can …


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  • Automatically create a checksum and publish DSC MOF configuration files to an SMB pull server

    calendar Mar 5, 2015 · Desired State Configuration DSC PowerShell  ·
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    You've configured one or more DSC (Desired State Configuration) SMB pull servers in your environment. You've also configured the target nodes appropriately. One problem that seems to be a constant problem in your environment when authoring and updating DSC configuration files (MOF files) is keeping track of what GUID …


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