Episode 265 – PowerScripting Podcast – Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell Team on DSC

April 8, 2014| Podcast

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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell team about DSC

News

https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/
The PowerShell Portland User Group is meeting April 15th
The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is meeting on April 15th
The Tampa PowerShell User Group is meeting on April 17th

Interview

Guest – Narayanan Lakshmanan

Chatroom Highlights:

<JimB_> ### for a DSC noob, how well does it compare with Puppet? Linux guys are pushing and I am not too familiar with it. Does an IT shop need both?

<marc_carter> ##DSC noob here too…any suggestions or some practical examples to gain some familiarity?

<alexandair1> ## when can we expect to get resources written by other product teams?

<stevenmurawski> ##Will Test-TargetResource tell you what’s deviating if it fails?

<justpaul> ## will MS require the various teams to provide DSC resources (aka stop-ship, like they did with powerShell cmdlets)

<stevenmurawski> ##When will the DscResourceDesigner’s Test-DscResource handle more complex schema.mofs?

<stevenmurawski> ##What’s failing is the wave resources that you’ve released fail to validate with Test-DscResource

<stevenmurawski> ## How far downlevel will WMF5 be supported? 2008R2?

<stevenmurawski> ### What is N for WMF5?

<alevyinroc> totally unrelatedâ€¦on win 8.1, how would one get past â€œaccess deniedâ€ when trying to use location services (like this: http://www.verboon.info/2013/10/powershell-script-get-computergeolocation/)

<Vern_Anderson> http://youtu.be/JM7e5tsYOi8

<Vern_Anderson> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014 << For those who missed the keynote

<Vern_Anderson> http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx

<Vern_Anderson> https://oneget.codeplex.com/

<halr9000> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/03/28/dsc-resource-kit-wave-3.aspx

<Vern_Anderson> http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx

<halr9000> dsc reskit wave 1 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/26/holiday-gift-desired-state-configuration-dsc-resource-kit-wave-1.aspx

<halr9000> wave 2 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/02/07/need-more-dsc-resources-announcing-dsc-resource-kit-wave-2.aspx

<halr9000> dsc reskit home http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d

<brwilkinson> @marc_carter check the book here https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/tree/master/DSC

<Vern_Anderson> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_Object_Format

<ScriptWarrior> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=desired%20state%20configuration&ac=3