Tag: Desired State Configuration

Writting custom DSC resource

During the European PowerShell summit, the hackaton was focused on 4 subjects, but only one direction:  Build a custom DSC resource for the community. It was very intresting, and like after each IT Event, you come home with many many ideas… Your wife still doesn’t like it but… Anyway, if you weren’t at the summit:…




Desired State Configuration is mostly awesome…

But, sometimes you can’t use it! As i’m working on my script for Rebuild conf. I’m facing terribly issues with Exchange 2013 installation with DSC. I will show you how you can “install” Exchange 2013 remotely mostly with DSC.. First of all, you need to install Windows features and roles.. this is the easy part…




Desired State Configuration – xADDomain (Configure your domain)

Hi, It’s been a while i hadn’t publish a post on this blog. Mainly because i’m really busy at work 😉 So now, it’s time to work on a session i’ve submited for Microsoft ReBuild here in France.. This session will focus on DSC and Azure. So my first need is a Domain, i’ve looked…




PowerShell Desired State Configuration

Instead of speaking about PowerShell 5.0 which is offered to us by Microsoft since twodays, I’ll talk today about Desired State Configuration (DSC) the killer feature of PowerShell 4.0. I won’t talk about the rythm of the PowerShell releases 😀 What’s DSC ? Do you know puppet ? i’m not talking about one of the…