In Chapter 5, you learned how to secure credentials or other sensitive data such as API keys in a DSC configuration document. This ensures that passwords and other sensitive strings are encrypted in the compiled configuration MOF to anyone reading it. You also saw, as a part of the configuration life cycle in Chapter 3, that once the enact completes successfully, the enacted configuration gets stored as current.mof in the C:\Windows\System32\Configuration folder. In this chapter, you will learn how DSC secures the MOF documents at rest in the ...
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