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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808537
Length 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Preface 1. Establishing a PowerShell Administrative Environment FREE CHAPTER 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

Configuring the DSC local configuration manager


The LCM is a key component of DSC. LCM is a Windows service that runs on each DSC target node, and is responsible for receiving configuration information and ensuring that the node is configured in the desired state (and remains that way).

DSC has two mechanisms for the desired state delivery: push and pull. The earlier recipes in this chapter demonstrated the push model: you create a configuration and its related MOF file on one node and push that configuration to another node. In the pull model, you configure the node with details of where and how to find a pull server. Once configured, a node can pull configurations from the configured pull server. In both cases, it is the LCM that performs the actual configuration.

The way the LCM works changed in PowerShell version 5. In this recipe, which you run on SRV2, you configure the LCM (based on the PowerShell V5 mechanism) on SRV2 and set up SRV2 to pull the DSC configuration from SRV1 which you...

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