{"id":19013,"date":"2021-05-14T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/?p=19013"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:46:23","slug":"announcing-psdesiredstateconfiguration-on-powershell-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/announcing-psdesiredstateconfiguration-on-powershell-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing PSDesiredStateConfiguration on PowerShell Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our investment in DSC, we are pleased to announce the release of\n<strong>PSDesiredStateConfiguration<\/strong> 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery. This is in\npreparation for publishing previews of the 3.0 version of this module which will have new\ncapabilities, but also some breaking changes.<\/p>\n<p>DSC is an important platform in configuration management, and we value the feedback we are\nreceiving from the community. To further the goals of DSC, <strong>PSDesiredStateConfiguration<\/strong> module\nwill no longer be included in the PowerShell package beginning in a future release of PowerShell 7.2\npreview. Separating DSC into its own module allows us to invest and develop DSC independent of\nPowerShell and reduces the size of the PowerShell package. Users of DSC will enjoy the benefit of\nupgrading DSC without the need to upgrade PowerShell, accelerating time to deployment of new DSC\nfeatures.<\/p>\n<p>Customers impacted by this change and wishing to remain on <strong>DSC v2<\/strong> can download\n<strong>PSDesiredStateConfiguration<\/strong> 2.0.5 for Windows PowerShell from the PowerShell Gallery. Customers\nworking with non-Windows environments can expect cross-platform features in <strong>DSC v3<\/strong>. For more\ninformation about DSC and the teams on-going investments for 2021, see\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershell-team-2021-investments\/\">PowerShell Team 2021 Investments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To download <strong>PSDesiredStateConfiguration<\/strong> from the PowerShell Gallery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powershellgallery.com\/packages\/PSDesiredStateConfiguration\/2.0.5\">PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 on PowerShell Gallery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To install <strong>PSDesiredStateConfiguration<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-powershell\">Install-Module -Name PSDesiredStateConfiguration -Repository PSGallery -MaximumVersion 2.99<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><div class=\"alert alert-warning\"><p class=\"alert-divider\"><i class=\"fabric-icon fabric-icon--Warning\"><\/i><strong>Warning<\/strong><\/p> Be sure to include the parameter <strong>MaximumVersion<\/strong> or you\nwill receive the latest version of <strong>PSDesireStateConfiguration<\/strong> which contains significant\ndifferences. <\/div><\/p>\n<p>For more information about <strong>DSC v3<\/strong> and the teams investments for 2021, see\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/powershell-team-2021-investments\/\">PowerShell Team 2021 Investments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the release of PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,248],"class_list":["post-19013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-dsc","tag-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We are pleased to announce the release of PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013","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\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/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=19013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}