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Introducing the Azure PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) extension
Earlier this year Microsoft released the Azure VM Agent and Extensions as part of the Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. VM Extensions are software components that extend the VM functionality and...
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DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 Is Here
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 Is AvailableThe DSC Resource Kit Wave 6 has been released!This wave contains 5 newDSC Resources, taking us up over 80 resources between the Resource Kit and what is shipping...
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PowerShell Summit Europe 2014
If you hadn’t already heard, we are happy to announce that the community will hold the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 from September 29th to October 1st in Amsterdam. As demonstrated by the successful...
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Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014 is now available
We’re excited to announce Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014, a new package publicizing new and exciting management technologies, is now available for download on Download...
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Secure credentials in the Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)...
We have updated the Azure Extension Handler to v1.1! Release notes for v1.1The DSC extension will be upgraded to v1.1 automatically the next time the virtual machine restarts. However, if you...
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Continuing the DSC Resource Kit Additions – Wave 7 is Live
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 7 update has been published, and is now available here. You can also find them by using PowerShellGet. This wave contains 4 newDSC Resources, which brings the total count of...
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Simple REST api for Executing PowerShell Scripts
There may be scenarios where you don’t need the full interactive experience of PowerShell remoting over PSRP (PowerShell Remoting Protocol), or have the need to execute some PowerShell scripts from a...
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Heads Up: Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog Series
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. This week, the week of Oct. 19, I begin a special series of Hey Scripting Guy blog posts where we will be talking about why upgrade to Windows PowerShell 4.0....
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PowerShell DSC Does Exchange!
One of the more complex products to deploy and configure has just been made easier with the release of the xExchange PowerShell DSC Resource Module. Mike Hendrickson, the creator of these resources,...
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Manage the PowerShell DSC Extension in the Azure Preview Portal
If you haven’t yet started using the Azure Preview Portal and are a fan of PowerShell DSC and the Azure PowerShell DSC Extension (announced in August here), now just might be the time to start. We are...
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Powershell DSC ResKit Wave 8: Now with 100+ Resources!
The DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 has landed! You can find it right here.This wave contains an astounding 48 resources, our largest release ever! We just went from 90 resources released via the Resource Kit...
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ConvertFrom-String: Example-based text parsing
IntroI’m sure most of you are familiar with the powerful tools for text parsing available in PowerShell. A presentation at the PowerShell Summit a couple of weeks ago provides a good overview of these...
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Documenting DSC
We have a new team of content developers focusing on documenting Desired State Configuration (DSC). Led by our manager Steve Kaczmarek, the team comprises Jaime Ondrusek, Corey Plett, and Eric Slesar....
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PowerShell DSC Resource Design and Testing Checklist
Writing Desired State Configuration Resources is not trivial and there’s many things which can go wrong. You should always spend significant amount of time testing resources you create. This task,...
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Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014 is now available
We’re excited to announce Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014, a new package publicizing new and exciting management technologies, is now available for download on Download...
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Documenting DSC Part 2
In a previous post, we introduced the team of writers working on documenting DSC. (You can always contact them at DSCIX@microsoft.com.) We’ve started out by bringing the existing documentation up to...
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PowerShell Break All Command
The PowerShell team has added some new script debugging features for version 5.0. I’ll be talking about these new features in a series of blogs starting with the new PowerShell Break All command....
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Introducing: PowerShell Gallery
PowerShellGet is an exciting new feature releasing in WMF 5.0 Preview. With it, you can easily discover, install, update, and publish PowerShell modules to and from online repositories – simplifying...
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Release history for the Azure DSC Extension
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...
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PowerShell DSC Azure Extension 1.5 is now available
We’re excited to announce version 1.5 of the Azure DSC extension, which now supports Windows Server 2012 (in addition to Windows Server 2012 R2).Version 1.5 uses the Windows Management Framework 5.0...
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