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December 2013 - PowerShell Team

Holiday Gift – Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit Wave-1

December 26, 2013 Dec 26, 2013 12/26/13
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Continuing with the tradition of holiday gifts to the PowerShell community, the PowerShell team has just released DSC Resource Kit Wave-1 - a set of PowerShell modules that contain DSC resources and example configurations. The various modules that are part of DSC Resource Kit Wave 1 can be found here. When DSC was introduced in PowerShell ...

Automatically resuming Windows PowerShell Workflow jobs at logon

December 23, 2013 Dec 23, 2013 12/23/13
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PowerShell Workflow helps IT Pros automate the long running tasks, or workflows, that can affect multiple managed computers or devices at the same time. Windows PowerShell Workflow is designed to be robust and recoverable. The features that are built into Windows PowerShell allow you to restart the target computers and, if the workflow is ...

Windows PowerShell Script Workflow Debugging

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
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Script workflow debugging support is one of two major script debugging enhancements added in Windows PowerShell 4.0. The other new feature is script debugging in remote sessions, which is described in “Windows PowerShell Remote Debugging”. We introduced script workflow in Windows PowerShell 3.0. These are workflows written in the ...

Windows PowerShell Remote Debugging

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
PowerShell Team
Windows PowerShell 4.0 includes two major enhancements to the script debugger. First, script debugging now works in remote sessions. Second, we’ve added debugging support for workflow scripts. This blog article describes the new remote debugging support and a following article will describe the new workflow script debugging. Remote Script ...

PowerShell Security Best Practices

December 16, 2013 Dec 16, 2013 12/16/13
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We get a lot of questions about PowerShell Security Best Practices, and we got the chance to present an overview of them at this year’s (Microsoft internal) BlueHat conference. This was a 20-minute presentation, and focused on two parts:   The video was recorded, and is available here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/...

Understanding Meta Configuration in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration

December 9, 2013 Dec 9, 2013 12/9/13
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UPDATE 2/6/2018 - The latest information regarding LCM configuration is available in the documentation at the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/metaconfig .......... LCM and Meta Configuration To understand the concept of Meta Configuration, first we need to know what Local Configuration Manager (LCM) is, ...

How to Deploy and Discover Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Resources

December 5, 2013 Dec 5, 2013 12/5/13
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A Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resource contains a module file (*.psm1), an optional data file (*.psd1),and a *.schema.mof file. Details about what each of those files should look like, and how you can create those files using a DSC Resource Designer Tool, are discussed in an earlier blog post.  In this blog post, ...