Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition

Setting up the test environment remotely

Pushing DSC configurations remotely requires some extra steps. Some of these steps may not be needed in your environment, depending on how you configured it. We will note which case it is as we come to each step.

On box1, we run the following commands to allow PSRemoting to connect using IP addresses. This is not necessary in a production environment and is only necessary when you are using IP addresses and not short domain names or fully qualified domain names (FQDN). Since the example test environment is using test VMs that have no DNS here, we have to allow IP addresses to be used:

[BOX1 PS] >Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value * WinRM Security Configuration. This command modifies ...