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We’re pleased to announce the General Availability of Microsoft’s Desired State Configuration (DSC)\nversion 3.1.0. This release marks a significant milestone in our effort to deliver cloud-native\nconfiguration management for cross-platform environments. DSC is a declarative configuration and\norchestration platform that defines a standard way of exposing settings for applications and\nservices. DSC v3.1.0 is built on collaboration with key improvements driven by partner requests.\nSpecial thanks to the Windows Package Manager (WinGet) team and the incredible support of the DSC\ncommunity.<\/p>\n
For additional details about the initial DSC v3.0.0 release, see:<\/p>\n
This release continues our momentum by delivering features and improvements\ndriven by real world use, partner feedback, and community contributions.<\/p>\n
DSC v3.1 includes updates and fixes across the platform. Here are some of the\nmost important improvements:<\/p>\n
WinGet and partner-driven enhancements<\/strong><\/p>\n Resource authoring improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n Cross-Platform reliability and bug fixes<\/strong><\/p>\n Performance and quality<\/strong><\/p>\n Diagnostics and usability<\/strong><\/p>\n For a full list of changes, see the DSC v3.1 changelog<\/a><\/p>\n To get started, follow these steps to install DSC on your system:<\/p>\n On Windows, you can install DSC from the Microsoft Store using Search for the latest version of DSC:<\/p>\n Install DSC using the On Linux and macOS, you can install DSC using the following steps:<\/p>\n DSC follows semantic versioning. <\/p>\n The first release of DSC version 3.0.0 is a Stable release. DSC version 3.1.0 is the current Stable\nrelease. Patch releases update the third digit of the semantic version number. For example, 3.1.1 is\na patch update to 3.1.0. Stable releases receive patches for critical bugs and security\nvulnerabilities for three months after the next Stable release. For example, version 3.1.0 is\nsupported for three months after 3.2.0 is released.<\/p>\n Always update to the latest patch version of the release you’re using.<\/p>\n For more information about Desired State Configuration v3.0 (DSC), see the DSC documentation<\/a>.\nWe value your feedback. Stop by our GitHub repository<\/a> and let us know of any issues you find.<\/p>\n Jason Helmick<\/p>\n Sr. Product Manager, PowerShell<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.<\/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":[3197],"class_list":["post-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-powershell-dsc"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831","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=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/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=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Installing DSC<\/h2>\n
winget<\/code>. By installing from the\nStore or using winget<\/code>, you get automatic updates for DSC.<\/p>\nwinget search DesiredStateConfiguration --source msstore<\/code><\/pre>\nName Id Version Source\n---------------------------------------------------------------\nDesiredStateConfiguration 9NVTPZWRC6KQ Unknown msstore\nDesiredStateConfiguration-Preview 9PCX3HX4HZ0Z Unknown msstore<\/code><\/pre>\nid<\/code> parameter:<\/p>\n# Install latest stable\nwinget install --id 9NVTPZWRC6KQ --source msstore<\/code><\/pre>\n# Install latest preview\nwinget install --id 9PCX3HX4HZ0Z --source msstore<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
PATH<\/code> environment variable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSupport lifecycle<\/h2>\n
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