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Powershell DSC ResKit Wave 8: Now with 100+ Resources!

October 28, 2014 Oct 28, 2014 10/28/14
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 ...

PowerShell DSC Does Exchange!

October 21, 2014 Oct 21, 2014 10/21/14
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...

Continuing the DSC Resource Kit Additions – Wave 7 is Live

September 26, 2014 Sep 26, 2014 09/26/14
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 ...

Secure credentials in the Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension

September 10, 2014 Sep 10, 2014 09/10/14
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 ...

Introducing the Azure PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) extension

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
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 ...

Chef with PowerShell DSC Now Public!

July 29, 2014 Jul 29, 2014 07/29/14
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-...

Creating a Secure Environment using PowerShell Desired State Configuration

July 21, 2014 Jul 21, 2014 07/21/14
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 ...

Announcing Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux

May 19, 2014 May 19, 2014 05/19/14
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 ...

Understanding Import-DscResource Keyword in Desired State Configuration

April 25, 2014 Apr 25, 2014 04/25/14
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 ...