Episode 265 - PowerScripting Podcast - Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell Team on DSC
In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell team about DSC
News
- http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/
- The PowerShell Portland User Group is meeting April 15th
- The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is meeting on April 15th
- The Tampa PowerShell User Group is meeting on April 17th
Interview
Guest - Narayanan Lakshmanan
Links
- WMF5 Preview
- DSC Resource Kit
- Don Jones’ - The DSC ebook (free)
- TechNet Virtual Lab: Desired State Configuration with Window Server 2012 R2
Chatroom Highlights:
### for a DSC noob, how well does it compare with Puppet? Linux guys are pushing and I am not too familiar with it. Does an IT shop need both?
##DSC noob here too...any suggestions or some practical examples to gain some familiarity?
## when can we expect to get resources written by other product teams?
##Will Test-TargetResource tell you what's deviating if it fails?
## will MS require the various teams to provide DSC resources (aka stop-ship, like they did with powerShell cmdlets)
##When will the DscResourceDesigner's Test-DscResource handle more complex schema.mofs?
##What's failing is the wave resources that you've released fail to validate with Test-DscResource
## How far downlevel will WMF5 be supported? 2008R2?
### What is N for WMF5?
totally unrelated…on win 8.1, how would one get past “access denied†when trying to use location services (like this: http://www.verboon.info/2013/10/powershell-script-get-computergeolocation/)
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014 << For those who missed the keynote
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/03/28/dsc-resource-kit-wave-3.aspx
dsc reskit wave 1 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/26/holiday-gift-desired-state-configuration-dsc-resource-kit-wave-1.aspx
dsc reskit home http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d
@marc_carter check the book here https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/tree/master/DSC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_Object_Format
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=desired%20state%20configuration&ac=3
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B302
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-H310
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-IL206-R#fbid=
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