In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

Microsoft's Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a declarative configuration platform. You can use DSC resources to query, audit, and set the state of a specific component on a system. You can use DSC ...

Tutorial: Create a class-based DSC Resource for machine configuration Get started authoring a class-based DSC Resource to manage a configuration file with Azure machine configuration. Completing this ...

What is Powershell Desired State Configuration? Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a feature in PowerShell 4.0 and above that helps administrators to automate the configuration of Windows and Linux ...

Each of the tutorials in this section implements the same DSC Resource in a different language. The DSC Resources manage the fictional TSToy application's configuration files. While the TSToy ...

This repository includes code samples and accompanying tutorial for DSC v3. All code in this repository is for non-production samples used in the DSC documentation and is designed to be used for ...

This is the second post in a multi-part series about the new release of DSC. Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.0.0 is a modern, cross-platform configuration management framework designed ...

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Puppet configuration management users have several options to manage Windows boxes. The best one depends on the IT deployment and admin skills. Configuration management tools largely started in the ...