PowerShell DSC: Introduction

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What is DSC?

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“Desired State Configuration is Microsoft’s technology, introduced in Windows

Management Framework 4.0, for declarative configuration of systems”

The DSC Book

“DSC is a distributed, heterogeneous, configuration management

platform”

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How does DSC work?

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Configuration

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Managed Object Format(MOF)

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DSC Resources

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•Built-In

•DSC Resource Kit Wave

•Community

xActiveDirectory

xAzure

xChrome

xDnsServer

xMySql

xJEA

xWebAdministration

cFailOverCluster

WindowsProcess

Class-defined DSC resources – WMF 5.0

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Class-defined DSC resources

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Demo

•Configuration for IIS

•Basic cmdlets and structure

•Pull server

•Configuration for WebServer

Win 2012 R2 / WMF 5.0 / xPSDesiredStateConfiguration

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•Process

•DSC is a framework

•xResources

DSC is awesome, but …

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•DSC is Powershell language extension

•Fast start

•DSC is a framework

•Built in support of password encryption

•DSC is the future

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Summary

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