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September 13, 2018Sep 13, 201809/13/18 2018 has been the most active year ever for the DSC community. The DSC team is taking on major new areas of work in Azure, and we have made significant progress in development of the new DSC platform.
In this Planning Update for DSC, I want to cover these topics in detail and share major changes to the timing of our Open Source plans for the DSC platform.
September 5, 2018Sep 5, 201809/5/18We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 11 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 146 pull requests have been merged and 105 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
CertificateDsc
NetworkingDsc
SecurityPolicyDsc
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
StorageDsc
xActiveDirectory
xDatabase
xExchange
xRemoteDesktopSessionHost
xWebAdministration
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
July 25, 2018Jul 25, 201807/25/18We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 12 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 128 pull requests have been merged and 90 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
ComputerManagementDsc
SecurityPolicyDsc
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
xActiveDirectory
xDhcpServer
xDscResourceDesigner
xExchange
xPowerShellExecutionPolicy (now deprecated since now in ComputerManagementDsc)
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration
xRemoteDesktopSessionHost
xWebAdministration
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
June 13, 2018Jun 13, 201806/13/18We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This is our biggest release yet!
It takes the records for the most merged pull requests in a release and the most modules we have ever released at once from GitHub!
This release includes updates to 27 DSC resource modules.
May 2, 2018May 2, 201805/2/18We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 12 DSC resource modules. In these past 6 weeks, 52 pull requests have been merged and 63 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
ActiveDirectoryCSDsc (previously xAdcsDeployment)
CertificateDsc (previously xCertificate)
ComputerManagementDsc (previously xComputerManagement)
DFSDsc (previously xDFS)
SqlServerDsc
xDnsServer
xDscResourceDesigner
xExchange
xNetworking
xPendingReboot
xSMBShare
xWebAdministration
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
April 19, 2018Apr 19, 201804/19/18In the next Current Branch release of Windows Server a new feature will be released to provide support for SQL Server as the database platform to support Windows Pull Server for DSC.
This capability will open new scenarios:
High availability
The SQL ecosystem of reporting and analysis tools
If you are a member of Windows Server Insiders you can test this now by downloading a preview build.
March 21, 2018Mar 21, 201803/21/18We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 7 DSC resource modules. In these past 6 weeks, 43 pull requests have been merged and 37 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
xActiveDirectory
xComputerManagement
xFailOverCluster
xNetworking
xPSDesiredStateConfiguration
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
February 7, 2018Feb 7, 201802/7/18We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 12 DSC resource modules. In these past 7 weeks, 83 pull requests have been merged and 70 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are:
OfficeOnlineServerDsc
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc
StorageDsc (previously xStorage)
xActiveDirectory
xCertificate
xComputerManagement
xDatabase
xExchange
xFailOverCluster
xHyper-V
xNetworking
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
December 20, 2017Dec 20, 201712/20/17We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 16 DSC resource modules. In these past 5 weeks, 68 pull requests have been merged and 59 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
OfficeOnlineServerDsc
SecurityPolicyDsc
SharePointDsc
SqlServerDsc (previously xSqlServer)
SystemLocaleDsc
xAdcsDeployment
xCertificate
xComputerManagement
xExchange
xHyper-V
xNetworking
xPowerShellExecutionPolicy
xRemoteDesktopSessionHost
xStorage
xSystemSecurity
xTimeZone
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
October 5, 2017Oct 5, 201710/5/17We just released the DSC Resource Kit!This release includes updates to 6 DSC resource modules. In these past 6 weeks, 52 pull requests have been merged and 39 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
The modules updated in this release are:
SecurityPolicyDsc
SharePointDsc
xAdcsDeployment
xComputerManagement
xNetworking
xSqlServer
For a detailed list of the resource modules and fixes in this release,
