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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](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/getting-started-with-powershell-3-0-jump-start) videos are up

  [Advanced Tools & Scripting with PowerShell 3.0](http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/Adv-PowerShell-Jump-Start?CR_CC=200226341) is August 1st

  PowerShell sessions, slides and demos from TechEd 2013 [have been posted](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/07/29/powershell-sessions-slides-and-demos-from-teched-2013.aspx)

  The [Philadelphia PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/2013/07/14/phillyposh-meeting-20130801/) is meeting August 1st

  The [Charlotte PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/event/charlotte-powershell-users-group-monthly-meeting-3/2013-08-01/) is meeting August 1st

  The [Arizona PowerShell group](https://powershell.org/event/arizona-powershell-azposh-user-group-meeting/2013-08-07/) is meeting August 7th

  [IndyPoSh is meeting August 7th](https://powershell.org/event/indyposh-the-road-to-azure-for-it-pros-goes-through-powershell/)

Interview

Guests - Don Jones

Links

  [Jeffrey Snover"™s 2002 Monad Manifesto](http://www.jsnover.com/Docs/MonadManifesto.pdf)

  [PowerShell Summit North America 2014](https://powershell.org/summit/powershell-summit-north-america/)

  [What"™s new in PowerShell v4](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh857339.aspx)

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