I think I’ve gotten my DSC classroom and demo setup ready. Understand that this isn’t meant to be production-friendly - it doesn’t automate some stuff because I want to cover that stuff in class by walking through it. But, I thought I’d share. I’ve basically made an ISO …
Now that we’ve suitably rested, let’s get back to working with Desired State Configuration. Now, there are some basic features to work with that ship by default and the PowerShell team has been blogging some additional resources, but in order to do some really interesting thing with DSC, …
Some lovely conversation on DSC over on Reddit… with some I wanted to perhaps offer an opinion on. From what I’ve seen, these are very common sentiments, and they definitely deserve… not argument or disagreement, but perhaps an alternate viewpoint. I’m not suggesting the …
Desired State Configuration offers a number of immediate opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) who are smart enough to jump on board _now. _DSC currently suffers from a marked lack of tooling. That’s partially deliberate; MS obviously needs to deliver the functionality, and …
On a recent PowerScripting Podcast episode, I went off on a bit of a career-oriented rant, and amongst other things mentioned something to the effect of, “if you’re not learning DSC now, you’re screwed.” It hopefully goes without saying that my comment applies to folks …
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Ed Wilson, Microsoft’s Scripting Guy, has created a free ebook, _Windows PowerShell Networking Guide. _It’s designed to provide a super-quick PowerShell crash course, and then show you how to manage various networking scenarios by using the shell. And it’s free! Just click the link …
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DSC Setup and Demo Scripts I recently set up a virtual machine to use for Desired State Configuration (DSC) demos. I wanted to make the demo-ing fairly brainless, as DSC requires a number of setup steps to get a pull server running. So I took some demo scripts Microsoft offered from TechEd 2013, …
