{"id":12625,"date":"2016-12-07T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/?p=12625"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:38:06","slug":"azure-dsc-extension-for-nano-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/azure-dsc-extension-for-nano-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure DSC extension for Nano Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/powershell\/archive\/2014\/11\/20\/release-history-for-the-azure-dsc-extension.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">release history<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to announce that the Azure DSC extension now works on Nano Server! You will need to use extension version 2.21 or above, but the functionality and cmdlets remain the same. The extension will take care of <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/dsc\/nanodsc\">adding the DSC package to Nano Server<\/a>. Nano\u2019s smaller footprint should speed up your end-to-end deployment time.<\/p>\n<p>Look at <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/virtual-machines-windows-extensions-dsc-overview\">our existing documentation<\/a> to get started. You can also use use <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/tools\/\">Azure Tools for Visual Studio<\/a> to help your deployments along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our\u00a0release history. &nbsp; We are proud to announce that the Azure DSC extension now works on Nano Server! You will need to use extension version 2.21 or above, but the functionality and cmdlets remain the same. The extension will take care of adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our\u00a0release history. &nbsp; We are proud to announce that the Azure DSC extension now works on Nano Server! You will need to use extension version 2.21 or above, but the functionality and cmdlets remain the same. The extension will take care of adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}