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Validate features of PowerShell DSC

July 6, 2015 Jul 6, 2015 07/6/15
Michael Greene
As many readers of the PowerShell blog already know, the next version of PowerShell is currently in preview. It is available in the Windows Management Framework 5 Preview. You can install this package on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, or later. Your feedback is important to us! After software ships, it is harder to introduce changes. There is a ...

Use DSC to manage WMI namespace security

June 29, 2015 Jun 29, 2015 06/29/15
Steve Lee
Almost 6 years ago, I wrote some PowerShell scripts in a multi-part series explaining WMI namespace security and also how to manage them using PowerShell. If you're not familiar with WMI namespace security, I recommend reading the blog posts above or even as a refresher. I received some feedback fairly recently about some issues and this ...

Want to write a DSC resource where only a single instance can be configured?

June 22, 2015 Jun 22, 2015 06/22/15
Travis Plunk
I've heard from a few DSC resource authors that they need a method to implement a resource that has a single instance; a singleton. The problem they encountered is a DSC resource must define a Key property but singleton resources generally should not have a key because there is only one instance that can be updated. The problem can been...

Azure DSC Extension v2.0 released

June 17, 2015 Jun 17, 2015 06/17/15
PowerShell Team
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Azure DSC Extension, with improvements for DSC configurations that reboot the VM, and fixes for ARM deployments. We are releasing this version as a major version change, instead of a minor revision, because ...

PowerShell ♥ the Blue Team

June 9, 2015 Jun 9, 2015 06/9/15
PowerShell Team
(Warning: Long blog post ahead! If you’d like to read (or share) this as a whitepaper, you can download it here: “Scripting Security and Protection Advances in Windows 10”). At Microsoft, we invest an enormous amount of time and energy managing world-class cloud services and incredibly large enterprise networks. Security is critical ...

How to register a node with a DSC pull server

May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015 05/29/15
PowerShell Team
NOTE - The latest information regarding DSC Pull Service can be found in the DSC documentation using the link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/pullserver .......... In PowerShell 4.0, each node in a DSC configuration identifies itself to the pull server with its ConfigurationId, a GUID. In the case of pull mode (where a ...

Azure PowerShell DSC Extension v1.10 released

May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 05/15/15
PowerShell Team
NOTE: You can find more information on the DSC Extension in our release history. Today we released a minor update to the Azure DSC Extension: version 1.10.1.0. This update addresses a couple of issues that were producing false error messages on some ARM deployments. Please feel free to give us your feedback as comments to this post, or ...

Update JEA for the April WMF 5.0 Preview

May 14, 2015 May 14, 2015 05/14/15
PowerShell Team
This year, at the Ignite Conference, we presented Just Enough Administration (JEA), a PowerShell toolkit for granularly managing administrator privileges.  Older versions of JEA do not work with the recently released  April WMF 5.0 Preview.  This is due to an issue with WinRM when registering a new endpoint.  The latest ...