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In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Mike Hendrickson and Jason Walker from Microsoft about their DSC resources for Exchange
News

• Mike’s book: new 4th ed of PowerShell TFM:
• WMF 5.0 November preview
• Limited Preview of the PowerShell Gallery
• Steven Murawaski is doing PowerShell DSC training in LA December 9th and 10th

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Interview

• before: 1000’s of lines of script, harder to read
• with DSC: 400 lines, easy to read, no config drift
• blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
• powershellget: https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/
  • install-module xExchange
• Q&A on Technet Gallery https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content

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Chatroom Highlights
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
DSC Resource Kit Wave 8 : https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d
https://gist.github.com/halr9000/20ab184a91277f3a2438
https://github.com/pester/Pester
Using Pester for Test Driven Development in PowerShell http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/10/09/using-pester-for-test-driven-development-in-powershell/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d
https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/packages/xExchange/
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/xExchange-PowerShell-1dd18388/view/Discussions#content
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mhendric/archive/2014/10/17/managing-exchange-2013-with-dsc-part-1-introducing-xexchange.aspx
My New Book: Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition is now Available! http://mikefrobbins.com/2014/11/13/my-new-book-windows-powershell-tfm-4th-edition-is-now-available/

Do you use your resources for only the initial config or to also correct configuration problem with issues occur?

but this is an example of how powershell allows for outside ‘unforseen’ contributions to occur within or outside microsoft

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Question

• Mike: Omniscience
• Jason: Jedi Knight