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Oct 28, 2014
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Powershell DSC ResKit Wave 8: Now with 100+ Resources!

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

The DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 has landed! You can find it right here. This wave contains an astounding 48 resources, our largest release ever! We just went from 90 resources released via the Resource Kit to 138, a whopping 53% boost! We didn’t just creep across the 100 resources line, we blew right past it! Special thanks to everyone who has co...

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Oct 21, 2014
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PowerShell DSC Does Exchange!

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

One of the more complex products to deploy and configure has just been made easier with the release of the xExchange PowerShell DSC Resource Module.   Mike Hendrickson, the creator of these resources, has begun documenting how to use PowerShell DSC to deploy & configure Exchange in the article Introducing the xExchange Module for Powe...

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Sep 26, 2014
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Continuing the DSC Resource Kit Additions – Wave 7 is Live

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

The DSC Resource Kit Wave 7 update has been published, and is now available. You can download all of the resources from the DSC Resource Kit (All Resources) topic, and also find them by using PowerShellGet. This wave contains 4 new DSC Resources, which brings the total count of resources over 90 since last December.   In additio...

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Sep 10, 2014
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Secure credentials in the Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

UPDATE 11/21/2014: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. We have updated the Azure Extension Handler to v1.1! Release notes for v1.1 If you are not familiar with the Azure PowerShell DSC extension, please start from our first blogpost about it. Desired State Configuration provides a way to ...

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Aug 7, 2014
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Introducing the Azure PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) extension

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

UPDATE 11/4/2014: For information on using PSCredential objects, please refer to this blog post. UPDATE 11/21/2014: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. For the latest information regarding DSC Extension, refer to the product documentation. .......... Earlier this year Microsoft release...

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Jul 29, 2014
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Chef with PowerShell DSC Now Public!

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

Many of you have seen the demos done by our friends at Chef, which show how they planned to leverage PowerShell DSC. Those plans are now public as of the publishing of the PowerShell DSC Cookbook for Chef announced in the recent blog post by Adam Edwards. Check it out here:  http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/07/24/getting-ready-for-chef-powersh...

PowerShellDSCDesired State Configuration
Jul 21, 2014
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Creating a Secure Environment using PowerShell Desired State Configuration

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

Introduction: Traditionally, IT environments have secured their business critical information against external threats by adding additional layers of security to the org’s network (e.g. firewalls, DMZs, etc.).  However many of today’s attacks are coming from inside the network so a new “assume breach” approach must be adopted. In this blog, we ...

PowerShellDSCDesired State Configuration
Jul 17, 2014
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PowerShell DSC Resource Kit Wave 5 Arrives

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

The PowerShell DSC Resource Kit Wave 5 is now available for your use. This wave contains 10 new DSC resources, taking us up to 77 total resources between the Resource Kits and what is shipping in Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2. In response to a number of requests, DSC Reskit Wave 5 also includes an end-to-end example, with a configuration for WordPress...

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May 19, 2014
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Announcing Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux

Kris Bash
Kris Bash

For those of you fortunate enough to be at TechEd North America last week, you might have seen Jeffrey Snover announcing Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Linux!  (If you missed that session, you can watch a replay of it online).  We are excited to announce the initial availability of this feature with the release of a CTP of...

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Apr 25, 2014
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Understanding Import-DscResource Keyword in Desired State Configuration

PowerShell Team
PowerShell Team

Desired State Configuration resources are used to model and change the state of different components of the system. In an earlier blog post, we discussed details about deploying and discovering those resources and introduced Import-DscResource dynamic keyword. In this post, we will discuss some more details about the usage and internal workin...

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