October 30, 2017 10:20 AM
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Desired State Configuration, Powershell
Reverse DSC

DSC is a configuration management tool that first appeared in PowerShell v4 and was refined in PowerShell v5/5.1. Major changes are coming to DSC of which more later. DSC takes a configuration and applies it to a server. What about the situation where you have an existing server and want to derive...
May 29, 2017 12:51 PM
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Desired State Configuration, Powershell
Build a better pull server

DSC functions in 2 modes – push (most basic) and pull. Creating a pull server is a non-trivial task and the out-of-the-box pull server has some issues. Some of the folks at powershell.org have decided its time to build a better pull server. There’s a project on github that supplies the code...
April 29, 2017 12:31 PM
Profile: Richard Siddaway
Desired State Configuration
DSC Configuring Sharing

A new set of repositories on Github document a process for sharing end-to-end scenario based DSC configurations