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February 2014 - PowerShell Team

Want to Automatically Configure Your Machines Using DSC at Initial Boot-up?

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14
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Often times, IT Pros want to automate software installation and configuration upon a machine’s initial boot-up. This blog will walk you through how to use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to do this. We will show you how to prepare and inject DSC configurations into your bootable media (such as VHDs), so that they are...

Reusing Existing Configuration Scripts in PowerShell Desired State Configuration

February 25, 2014 Feb 25, 2014 02/25/14
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You are an expert in PowerShell DSC (or maybe not an expert, just someone playing around with configurations in DSC) and have already written fairly large and complex configurations for configuring your environment/data center. Everything is working well and you are a great fan of DSC. There’s only one problem: your work is complicated...

Configuring a SQL High Availability Group with DSC

February 13, 2014 Feb 13, 2014 02/13/14
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Let's use DSC to configure something complicated!  In past blogs, we’ve shown you how to use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to configure relatively simple systems.  However, the technologies you deal with on a day to day basis can sometimes become complicated.  Don’t worry, DSC can still help ...

DSC Diagnostics Module– Analyze DSC Logs instantly now!

February 11, 2014 Feb 11, 2014 02/11/14
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  Have you ever witnessed a DSC Configuration run where you had no idea about what it might have done behind the scenes? Well, then your worries end here! During any DSC Operation, the DSC engine writes into windows event logs, which are like bread crumbs that the engine leaves along the way during any execution. If you read the blog ...

Need more DSC Resources? Announcing DSC Resource Kit Wave 2

February 7, 2014 Feb 7, 2014 02/7/14
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Good news everyone! Starting today, you can use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to configure Active Directory and SQL Server (including High Availability Groups). We are pleased to release the next wave of the DSC Resource Kit – one that enables you to start using DSC to solve your real world problems and scenarios. ...

How to enable Updatable Help for your PowerShell Module

February 4, 2014 Feb 4, 2014 02/4/14
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PowerShell 3.0 lets the user update Help content on a per module basis. In this article, I will explain how you can enable this for your own PowerShell module. Prerequisites: Have a new (script/binary) module, help content for the cmdlets of the module, and a server where the help content is located. For this particular exercise I will be ...