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Code from this week's Oslo class
OSTools - download for my class in Oslo this week. Here’s some more: share
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We Want Your DSC Resource Wish List!
What sorts of things would you want to configure via DSC that don’t already have a resource? NB: Focusing on the core Windows OS and its components only; Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and other products are off the table for this discussion. For example, I want a “log file …
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Going Deeper on DSC Resources
Desired State Configuration is a very new technology and declarative configuration management is a very young space yet. We (Microsoft and the community) are still figuring out the best structure for resources, composite configurations, and other structures. That said, there are certain viewpoints …
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My DSC Demo-Class Setup Routine
I think I’ve gotten my DSC classroom and demo setup ready. Understand that this isn’t meant to be production-friendly - it doesn’t automate some stuff because I want to cover that stuff in class by walking through it. But, I thought I’d share. I’ve basically made an ISO …
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Building Desired State Configuration Custom Resources
Now that we’ve suitably rested, let’s get back to working with Desired State Configuration. Now, there are some basic features to work with that ship by default and the PowerShell team has been blogging some additional resources, but in order to do some really interesting thing with DSC, …
PhillyPoSH 03/06/2014 meeting summary and presentation materials
Bartek Bielawski gave a presentation entitled “OMI : PowerShell Everywhere”. During his talk Bartek discussed and gave examples of how to CIM cmdlets and CDXML commands to manage everything in your datacenter. A copy of his presentation materials are available on our GitHub Repository. …
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The DSC Conversation Continues
Some lovely conversation on DSC over on Reddit… with some I wanted to perhaps offer an opinion on. From what I’ve seen, these are very common sentiments, and they definitely deserve… not argument or disagreement, but perhaps an alternate viewpoint. I’m not suggesting the …
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Jobs: PowerShell Scripter Wanted
Told you this would eventually start happening ;). Matt Sullivan of Strategic Staffing contacted me with the following job posting; if you’re interested, reply to him directly at 781-347-5220. … My name is Matt Sullivan and I am a member of the Strategic Staffing Division at NTT DATA …
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The DSC Opportunity for ISVs
Desired State Configuration offers a number of immediate opportunities for independent software vendors (ISVs) who are smart enough to jump on board _now. _DSC currently suffers from a marked lack of tooling. That’s partially deliberate; MS obviously needs to deliver the functionality, and …
Charlotte PowerShell User Group Meeting cancelled this week 3/6/14
Sorry but we have to cancel the User group meeting this month in Charlotte on 3/6/14 we will meet again on April 3, 2014.