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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

You're reading from  Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808537
Pages 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
Profile icon Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Establishing a PowerShell Administrative Environment 2. Managing Windows Networking 3. Managing Windows Active Directory 4. Managing Windows Storage 5. Managing Shared Data 6. Managing Windows Update 7. Managing Printing 8. Introducing Containers 9. Managing Windows Internet Information Server 10. Managing Desired State Configuration 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Managing Performance and Usage 14. Troubleshooting Windows Server Index

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 that are 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 Using DSC and built-in resources recipe.

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

This approach throws up the problem that, by default, you can only send a single MOF file to a given node; therefore, if you used the earlier recipe and copied files to SRV2, attempting to send a second MOF file to the system...

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