Now that’s a title! We’ve worked through my reasoning as to why I want Desired State Configuration (DSC) and how to build a pull server. Today and in the next post we are going to look at how to create configurations which describe how our target systems are supposed to work. The High …
Quick recap, I’m working through a series of posts about the Desired State Configuration infrastructure that I’m building at Stack Exchange, including some how-to’s. The High Points Overview Configuring the Pull Server (REST version) (this post) Creating Configurations (one of two, …
Another kudos to Jon Walz, host of the long running PowerScripting Podcast, for his first and well-deserved MVP Award!
Are you familiar with PowerShell’s -replace operator? "John Jones" -replace "Jones","Smith" Most folks are aware of it, and rely on it for straightforward string replacements like this one. But not very many people know that -replace also does some amazing stuff …
But I bet they’re okay with Remote Desktop Protocol, right? And all those Remote Procedure Calls? And I bet they never even thought about why every *nix _system, ever, _has SSH enabled by default? But practically nothing else (by default)? Hmm.
As most folks are aware, I’ve been writing the Windows PowerShell column for Microsoft’s _TechNet Magazine _for… wow, going on 7 years now. For 2013, I was doing a serialized column on PowerShell Workflow, introducing a bit of the technology at a time in each month’s …
Tthe WSUS API can be used to perform a multitude of WSUS tasks from approving patches, removing clients to creating automatic approval rules to many other things. By diving deeper into the API reveals that we can also find out the name of the SQL server (if using a remote SQL database server) that …
Just an FYI that I posted a walkthrough on my blog, of DSC, including my experiences as it relates to Group Policy: http://bit.ly/1868BYS
Today, Brad Anderson (Corporate VP in the Windows Server/System Center unit) posted the first in what should be a series of “What’s New in 2012 R2” articles. In it, Anderson focuses on how Microsoft squeezed so many features into the 2012R2 release in such a short period of time. …
