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MSIgnite BRK4452 - Writing Windows PowerShell DSC Resources and Configurations
Recordings of MS Ignite 2015 session BRK4452: Writing Windows PowerShell DSC Resources and Configurations are now available online.As mentioned in the session you can download the demo modules using...
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Update JEA for the April WMF 5.0 Preview
This year, at the Ignite Conference, we presented Just Enough Administration (JEA), a PowerShell toolkit for granularly managing administrator privileges. Older versions of JEA do not work with the...
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Azure PowerShell DSC Extension v1.10 released
NOTE: You can find more information on the DSC Extension in our release history.Today we released a minor update to the Azure DSC Extension: version 1.10.1.0.This update addresses a couple of issues...
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How to register a node with a DSC pull server
In PowerShell 4.0, each node in a DSC configuration identifies itself to the pull server with its ConfigurationId, a GUID. In the case of pull mode (where a node downloads the configuration from a pull...
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Looking Forward: Microsoft Support for Secure Shell (SSH)
As Microsoft has shifted towards a more customer-oriented culture, Microsoft engineers are using social networks, tech communities and direct customer feedback as an integral part on how we make...
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PowerShell ♥ the Blue Team
(Warning: Long blog post ahead! If you’d like to read (or share) this as a whitepaper, you can download it here: “Scripting Security and Protection Advances in Windows 10”). At Microsoft, we invest an...
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Azure DSC Extension v2.0 released
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Azure DSC Extension, with improvements for DSC configurations...
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Want to write a DSC resource where only a single instance can be configured?
I've heard from a few DSC resource authors that they need a method to implement a resource that has a single instance; a singleton. The problem they encountered is a DSC resource must define a Key...
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DSC Resource Kit flourishes as open source
We are excited to announce the recent updates which were made to DSC Resource Kit since open sourcing it on GitHub! We were working hard on improving coverage and robustness of DSC as well as saw...
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Registration is Now Open to Publish on PowerShell Gallery
We are excited to announce that, as of today, the PowerShell Gallery will accept registration from any users who wish to publish PowerShell modules and share their work with the world.For the past...
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Introducing Azure Resource Manager cmdlets for Azure PowerShell DSC Extension
Last August we introduced Azure Service Management (ASM) cmdlets for PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). Through these cmdlets released in the Azure PowerShell SDK, you can upload and apply a...
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Azure DSC Extension v2.1 released
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history.Today we released version 2.1 of the Azure DSC Extension, with a bug fix for ARM deployments.The bug we...
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