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Understanding CONFIGURATION keyword in Desired State Configuration

November 5, 2013 Nov 5, 2013 11/5/13
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Desired State Configuration is a new management platform in Windows Powershell that enables devOps scenarios on Windows. It enables system administrators and devOps to configure a system declaratively, enforce the configuration and reuse configuration. One core aspect of it is the language extension for Configuration keyword in Powershell. ...

Configuration in a DevOps world – Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration

November 1, 2013 Nov 1, 2013 11/1/13
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Some background A new breed of configuration management tools has been created to manage the platforms, applications, and infrastructure of the cloud, and keep the cloud running with high availability. The need for these new tools and infrastructure comes from the increase in scale, rapid rate of change, and complexity of the cloud. But ...

Microsoft Script Explorer: Next Steps

April 5, 2013 Apr 5, 2013 04/5/13
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For those who are familiar with Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell, you know that we haven't released additional updates to it since we published the release candidate (RC) in August 2012. Over the past few months, we have been talking with customers and partners and taking a hard look at the adoption rate of the RC in terms of ...

New-Workflow –MakeItEasy: Authoring Workflows using PowerShell Extended Syntax

July 21, 2012 Jul 21, 2012 07/21/12
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Some time back, in his blog post, Jeffrey Snover introduced one of the new Windows PowerShell 3.0 feature – Windows PowerShell Workflow. In that post, you saw a glimpse of how to author workflows using PowerShell syntax. This post dives into more details of authoring workflows using PowerShell syntax and various extensions to it. Why we ...

High Level Architecture of Windows PowerShell Workflow (Part 1)

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12
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  1 Summary In March we introduced Windows PowerShell Workflow (PSWF), which explained why we integrated workflows with PowerShell, and what were our major investment areas for our first release. In a recent post, Jeffrey Snover summarizes this decision: “We integrated the Windows Workflow Foundation engine into PowerShell to make...

When Windows PowerShell Met Workflow

March 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012 03/16/12
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Meet the new kid on the block! Windows PowerShell Workflow (PSWF) is the latest addition to the Windows PowerShell family. (image) First, let’s establish the context for the decision to integrate workflows into Windows PowerShell. It starts with cloud computing and Windows-based datacenters. Cloud computing provides a set of highly ...

Peering into script modules

June 3, 2009 Jun 3, 2009 06/3/09
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Sometimes it’s handy to access internal elements of script modules. For instance you may be using a 3rd party module in your application and would like to see the internal state for debugging purposes. This can be accomplished with the invoke operator (&) which allows you to access a modules session state: & $module {script ...