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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787122048
Length 660 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Preface 1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server 2. Implementing Nano Server FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Windows Updates 4. Managing Printers 5. Managing Server Backup 6. Managing Performance 7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016 8. Managing Windows Networking Services 9. Managing Network Shares 10. Managing Internet Information Server 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Using Desired State Configuration

Parameterizing DSC configuration

As with functions, you can create configuration blocks with parameters. These enable you to produce different MOF files by varying the parameter values used when you execute the configuration.

For example, suppose you wanted to add a feature to a node. You could create a specific configuration where you hard code the feature name and the node name. This is not dissimilar to how you copied specific files from DC1 to SRV1 in the use DSC and built-in resources recipe.

Alternatively, you could create a configuration that takes the node name and the service name as parameters and when you run the configuration, PowerShell creates a MOF file that adds the specified service to the specified node. This recipe demonstrates that approach.

One challenge this approach throws up is that, by default, you can only send a single MOF file to a given node. Thus...

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