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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

Configuring Local Configuration Manager

The LCM is a key component of DSC that initially shipped within PowerShell V4. LCM is a Windows service that runs on each DSC target node and is responsible for receiving configuration information and ensuring the node is configured in the desired state (and remains that way).

The LCM has two mechanisms for desired state delivery: push and pull. The earlier recipes in this chapter demonstrate 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.

With this recipe, which you run on SRV2, you configure the LCM based on PowerShell V5/5.1. PowerShell V4 used a different approach to configuring the LCM...

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