DSC composite resource for auto administrator logon

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 07 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

For my lab setup, I sometimes need to enable auto administrator logon during OS and application deployment. I use DSC for most part of this automation and what is better than a DSC resource for this?

Class-defined DSC resources in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview

• Ravikanth C
• 6 Min To Read
• 06 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

By now, it should be no surprise that WMF 5.0 Preview added support for defining classes and user-defined data types. This is done using the formal syntax and semantics that you find in an object-oriented programming language.

• Jason Stangroome
• 6 Min To Read
• 03 Oct, 2014
• • How to

I have been a long time Windows user and a PowerShell fan since it was introduced. I have always been aware of the range of useful tools regularly available to Unix/Linux users, but recently I started a new job where everything is built on Linux and …

Partial DSC Configurations in Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0

• Ravikanth C
• 10 Min To Read
• 02 Oct, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 September 2014 Preview brought in many changes to Desired State Configuration (DSC). A couple of important changes include cross-computer synchronization and partial configurations.

Pester Mock and TestDrive

• Jakub Jareš
• 11 Min To Read
• 30 Sep, 2014
• • Pester
  • Dev ops

In this part of Pester basics series, I will cover the most powerful tool from the whole framework, the Mock function.

Installing WMF 5.0 Preview September 2014 using DSC xWindowsUpdate resource

• Ravikanth C
• 3 Min To Read
• 29 Sep, 2014
• • Power shell dsc

If you have missed the announcement, Powershell team released wave 7 of the DSC Resource Kit just before the weekend.