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September 10, 2014Sep 10, 201409/10/14UPDATE 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
The DSC extension will be upgraded to v1.1 automatically the next time the virtual machine restarts.
August 20, 2014Aug 20, 201408/20/14The DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 Is Available
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 has been released!
This wave contains 5 new DSC Resources, taking us up over 80 resources between the Resource Kit and what is shipping in Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2.
August 7, 2014Aug 7, 201408/7/14UPDATE 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.
July 29, 2014Jul 29, 201407/29/14Many 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.
July 21, 2014Jul 21, 201407/21/14Introduction:
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”
July 17, 2014Jul 17, 201407/17/14The 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,
June 6, 2014Jun 6, 201406/6/14The value and number of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources coming from Microsoft continues to grow. As of the release of DSC Resource Kit Wave 3, we were up to 50 total.
Now, we’re happy to announce the DSC Resource Kit Wave 4.
May 19, 2014May 19, 201405/19/14For 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).
April 25, 2014Apr 25, 201404/25/14Desired 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 working of this dynamic keyword.
April 22, 2014Apr 22, 201404/22/14The DSC engine caches resources implemented as a PowerShell module for efficiency purposes. This can sometimes turn out to be annoying, when you are authoring a resource and testing it simultaneously. The only way to cause DSC to load the newer version every time is to explicitly kill the process hosting the DSC engine.
