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Learning Powershell DSC

You're reading from   Learning Powershell DSC Get started with the fundamentals of PowerShell DSC and utilize its power to automate deployment and configuration of your servers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783980703
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell DSC FREE CHAPTER 2. DSC Architecture 3. DSC Configuration Files 4. DSC Resources 5. Pushing DSC Configurations 6. Pulling DSC Configurations 7. Example Scenarios Index

Setting up a common installation base


With all your target machines up and configured for remote access, you move on to looking at what your common base installation should look like. Since you've been doing this stuff manually by yourself for a long while, you know by heart what needs to be installed on every server and configured.

Looking back at this book as you go, you jump right into making a DSC configuration for your base setup. Since the custom software your company develops uses Roman names for code names for releases, you decide to name your configuration Pantheon and author the following DSC configuration script:

Configuration PantheonDeployment
{
  Import-DscResource -Module xRemoteDesktopAdmin
  Import-DscResource -Module xTimeZone
  Import-DscResource -Module xComputerManagement
  Import-DscResource -Module xSystemSecurity

  Node ($AllNodes).NodeName
  {
    LocalConfigurationManager
    {
      ConfigurationId      = $Node.ConfigurationId
      RefreshMode          = $Node...
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