Automating the world one-liner at a time…
July 30, 2015Jul 30, 201507/30/15It’s been another busy month and we’ve seen lots of enthusiasm from many of you to help improve the DSC Resource Kit. In only the last couple of weeks we’ve merged 90 pull requests, 8 new resources have been added to 4 modules (xDefender,
July 28, 2015Jul 28, 201507/28/15Updated 05/03/2016 – On Jan 19th 2016, we had published the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 4.0 update packages for Windows Server 2012 (KB3119938), Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (KB3109118), and Windows 7 SP1 (KB3109118) . At this time, these update packages are only available by request through the aforementioned links.
July 21, 2015Jul 21, 201507/21/15NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history.
Today we released version 2.1 of the Azure DSC Extension, with a bug fix for ARM deployments.
The bug we fixed would produce this error message in some ARM deployments:
“File lock (C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\1.10.1.0\bin\..\DSCWork\ExtensionHandler.Lock.dsc) exists: another instance of the extension is already running.”
July 20, 2015Jul 20, 201507/20/15It’s been our intent for a while now to establish a single home of PowerShell that reflects the myriad of properties we have spread across the web. Between the Gallery, our blog, Connect, our GitHub repositories, and TechNet documentation, PowerShell is in a lot of places.
July 20, 2015Jul 20, 201507/20/15Last August we introduced Azure Service Management (ASM) cmdlets for PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). Through these cmdlets released in the Azure PowerShell SDK, you can upload and apply a PowerShell DSC Configuration to an Azure VM. Now, we are introducing new set of cmdlets for deploying DSC Extension with Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
July 10, 2015Jul 10, 201507/10/15This is part five of a blog series introduced in Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC.
New Capability
DSC has a new debugging mode that helps with troubleshooting by making it possible to interact with scripts being run by DSC,
July 9, 2015Jul 9, 201507/9/15This post is part four of a blog series introduced here: Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC.
New Capability
WaitFor is a new set of built-in configuration resources. Including the WaitFor resources in a configuration tells the configuration target machine that it should communicate with the Local Configuration Manager on a remote machine to verify that the remote has returned success,
July 8, 2015Jul 8, 201507/8/15This post is part three of a blog series introduced in Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC.
New Capability
DSC now has the ability to merge partial configurations into one configuration for management.
What is the purpose of this feature?
July 7, 2015Jul 7, 201507/7/15We are excited to announce that, as of today, the PowerShell Gallery will accept registration from any users who wish to publish PowerShell modules and share their work with the world.
For the past year, the PowerShell Gallery has been slowly adding content from our closest community contributors,
July 7, 2015Jul 7, 201507/7/15This is part of a blog series first referenced here: Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC
New Capability
A new cmdlet is available named Get-DscConfigurationStatus. This cmdlet returns detailed information about the status of a node.
What is the purpose of this feature?
