Episode 236 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Don Jones on PowerShell Desired State Configuration

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Don Jones about PowerShell Desired State Configuration

News

• The Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start videos are up

• Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 is August 1st

• PowerShell sessions, slides and demos from TechEd 2013 have been posted

• The Philadelphia PowerShell group is meeting August 1st

• The Charlotte PowerShell group is meeting August 1st

• The Arizona PowerShell group is meeting August 7th

• IndyPoSh is meeting August 7th

Interview

Guests - Don Jones

Links

• Jeffrey Snover’s 2002 Monad Manifesto

• PowerShell Summit North America 2014

• What’s new in PowerShell v4

Chatroom Buzz

• Vern_Anderson: ## How much of a dependency is System Center?

• Stuwee: #### Does it work only for 2012 r2 right now or does it work with other servers?

• Stuwee: so you can use DCS for win clients?

• halr9000: ## what types of things can we do in DSC? (resources)

• KeithH: What do you think about the lack of Windows Roles on client SKUs?

• smurawski: ## Here's a softball for you.. Does this enable OS Version independence (from a declarative perspective)?

• organicit: ##will there be a way to extend this beyond server roles?  Hooks into lower level dependencies such as applications servers like weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss,apache…etc

• FishTender27: I think you would still need a way to assign MOFs by a heirarchy

• PowerSchill: ## But how do you know that someones DSC implementation has exactly what you want?

• gpduck: is there any documentation/examples for configuring the pull model in the beta?

• Vern_Anderson: ## If you're deploying servers based upon how another server looks does it use dedupe to limit replicating copies of files?

The Question -

• First task with PowerShell: Writing PowerShell TFM