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Colecting Certificates form an Enterprise CA for use with DSC

DevOps, PowerShell for Admins, Tools

In a domain environment auto enrollment can be used to get create unique certificates for each node that can be used with DSC.  The problem is getting the public cert …...

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Convert ISO and WIM to VHD with a module

Tools

Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 is a very popular method to create VHD's with. However it's not a module, and in it's current form cant be added to one. So I have started a …...

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Building a test lab : The basics Part 1 RootCA

PowerShell for Admins

Part of building a functional test lab is being able to deal with cattle and not pets. With that in mode I'm writing a series about the script necessary to …...

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Creating a small footprint, base image Part 4 | Bringing it all together with automation

PowerShell for Admins

In this entry I combing all I covered into a set of scripts to automate the process of creating a small footprint VHDX base image and a WIM to use …...

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Creating a small footprint, base image Part 2

PowerShell for Admins

I posted Part 2 of using PowerShell to create small footprint VHDX that are fully patched. Patching and Cleanup via PowerShell...

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Creating a small footprint, base image Part 1

PowerShell for Admins

I'm starting a new blog series on using PowerShell to create small footprint VHDX that are fully patched....

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Setting up the PowerShell.org DSC tools from Github

PowerShell for Admins

I have created a short blog series about how to setup the DSC tooling from the PowerShell.org DSC repository. With the mindset of contributing changes.   Test-HomeLab -InputObject ‘The Plan’ Get-Posh-Git...

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