Using DSC with resources from PS Gallery

In the Finding and installing DSC resources recipe, you discovered and installed some additional DSC resources. The xWebAdministration module you installed contains a number of DSC resources that enable you to define the configuration of an IIS website.

In this recipe, you are going to make use of this module to create, configure, and view a new website on SRV2, based on the files created in the Using DSC and built-in resources recipe. This recipe uses the DSC resources contained in the xWebAdministration module (which you downloaded in the Finding and installing DSC resources recipe).

Getting ready

In this recipe, you use SRV1 to manage DSC resources and configurations, SRV2 as the target node that DSC is ...

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