Last August we introduced the Azure Desired State Configuration (DSC) Extension, which can be used to upload and apply a DSC configuration on an Azure VM. We will use this blog post to keep a history of the different releases with short descriptions of the changes introduced in each release. We will update this post as we release new updates to the extension.
Version 1.5
- Release date: 11/20/2014
- OS support: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012
- Remarks: This version installs the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014.
- New features:
- Uses the latest WMF 5.0 Preview, with added support for Windows Server 2012.
- Improvements downloading large *.ZIP packages
- Bug fixes
Version 1.4
- Release date: 10/23/2014
- OS support: Windows Server 2012 R2
- Remarks: This version installs the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014.
- New features:
- Integration with the Azure portal. See our blog post for more info.
- Bug fixes
Version 1.3
- Release date: 10/13/2014
- OS support: Windows Server 2012 R2
- Remarks: This version installs the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014.
- New features:
- Improvements on status reporting
- Bug fixes
Version 1.2
- Release date: 10/7/2014
- OS support: Windows Server 2012 R2
- Remarks: This version installs the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014.
- New features:
- Invokes Start-DscConfiguration with the –Force option
- Improvements around reboot scenarios
- Bug fixes
Version 1.1
- Release date: 9/8/2014
- OS support: Windows Server 2012 R2
- Remarks: This version installs the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014.
- New features:
- Support for configuration arguments of type PSCredential. See our blog post for more info.
- Update to Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014.
Version 1.0
- Release date: 8/1/2014
- OS support: Windows Server 2012 R2
- Remarks: This version installs the Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview May 2014.
- New features: Please see our initial blog post for more information.