Learning PowerShell DSC - Second Edition

 DSC configuration script file example

Now that we have covered the different parts of a DSC configuration block syntax, we can finally create a DSC configuration script. As we said earlier, we are going to modify it to install an MSI package as well as to ensure the .NET 4.5 framework is installed. We are going to use the package DSC resource to accomplish this. We are also going to change things up (such as the real world often does) and make this a bit more complicated by ensuring our target nodes all have a state file using the file DSC resource and an environment variable that points to the location of the state file using the environment DSC resource. Before we start writing our DSC configuration script file, let's examine each resource ...