Chapter 10. Managing Desired State Configuration
In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:
- Using DSC and built-in DSC resources
- Parameterizing the DSC configuration
- Finding and installing DSC resources
- Using DSC with resources from PS Gallery
- Configuring the DSC local configuration manager
- Implementing an SMB DSC pull server
- Implementing a web-based DSC pull server
- Using DSC partial configurations
Introduction
Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a management platform within Windows Server, and is implemented with Windows PowerShell. DSC enables you to define a computer's desired state declaratively and have PowerShell ensure that the computer is configured accordingly, and that it remains so. This is simpler than writing complex scripts to configure ...
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