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Azure DSC Extension v2.1 released

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
PowerShell Team
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we released version 2.1 of the Azure DSC Extension, with a bug fix for ARM deployments. The bug we fixed would produce this error message in some ARM deployments: “File lock (C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\1.10.1.0\bin\..\...

Validate PowerShell DSC Debug

July 10, 2015 Jul 10, 2015 07/10/15
Michael Greene
This is part five of a blog series introduced in Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC. New Capability DSC has a new debugging mode that helps with troubleshooting by making it possible to interact with scripts being run by DSC, as they are being applied. When this mode is enabled, as the machine applies the configuration, progress...

Validate PowerShell DSC Partial Configurations

July 8, 2015 Jul 8, 2015 07/8/15
Michael Greene
This post is part three of a blog series introduced in Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC.   New Capability   DSC now has the ability to merge partial configurations into one configuration for management.   What is the purpose of this feature? Customers have told us that in some cases, multiple teams ...

Registration is Now Open to Publish on PowerShell Gallery

July 7, 2015 Jul 7, 2015 07/7/15
PowerShell Team
We are excited to announce that, as of today, the PowerShell Gallery will accept registration from any users who wish to publish PowerShell modules and share their work with the world. For the past year, the PowerShell Gallery has been slowly adding content from our closest community contributors, most of whom are Most Valuable Professionals (...

Validate PowerShell DSC Node Status

July 7, 2015 Jul 7, 2015 07/7/15
Michael Greene
This is part of a blog series first referenced here: Validate the new features of PowerShell DSC New Capability A new cmdlet is available named Get-DscConfigurationStatus. This cmdlet returns detailed information about the status of a node. What is the purpose of this feature? Customers have told us that they need to be able to get ...

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...