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DSC Future Direction Update

September 12, 2017 Sep 12, 2017 09/12/17
Mark Gray [MSFT]
PowerShell Core and DSC PowerShell is open sourced and moving over to .Net Standard 2.0 for the reasons outlined in Jeffrey's blog post. Like PowerShell, PowerShell Desired State configuration (DSC) needs to meet customers in this multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world where they live. In Joey's blog post, he outlined what this means to ...

Azure DSC Extension 2.8 & How to map downloads of the extension dependencies to your own location.

October 21, 2015 Oct 21, 2015 10/21/15
Travis Plunk
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Overview Today, we released version 2.8 of the Azure DSC Extension, we added support to map downloads of the extension dependencies to your own location. This could be useful, if you want to configure the network, of a VM not to allow direct ...

How to use WMF 4 with Azure DSC Extension in Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

October 2, 2015 Oct 2, 2015 10/2/15
Travis Plunk
Overview In version 2.7 of the Azure DSC Extension, we added support to leave your Virtual Machine on the latest supported version of WMF 4.0. This blog will show you how to use this feature in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. For this, I will use the Azure Resource Manger Tools, that were released with Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET. I will...

Azure DSC Extension v2.7 released

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15
Travis Plunk
NOTE: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. Summary Today, we released version 2.7 of the Azure DSC Extension, which adds support to leave your Virtual Machine on the latest supported version of WMF 4.0. We have a blog posted with examples of how to use this in Azure Cloud Service Manager (...

Secure credentials in the Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) extension

September 10, 2014 Sep 10, 2014 09/10/14
PowerShell Team
UPDATE 11/21/2014: For information on OS support, and other features, please refer to our release history. We have updated the Azure Extension Handler to v1.1! Release notes for v1.1 If you are not familiar with the Azure PowerShell DSC extension, please start from our first blogpost about it. Desired State Configuration provides a ...