Episode 265 - PowerScripting Podcast - Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell Team on DSC

In This Episode

Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to
Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell team about
DSC
News



http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/




The PowerShell Portland User Group
is meeting April 15th




The Greater Milwaukee Script Club
is meeting on April 15th




The Tampa PowerShell User Group
is meeting on April 17th


Interview

Guest - Narayanan Lakshmanan
Links



WMF5 Preview




DSC Resource Kit




Wave 1




Wave 2




DSC Resource Designer




Wave 3




All modules - download






Don Jones’ - The DSC ebook (free)




TechNet Virtual Lab: Desired State Configuration with
Window Server 2012 R2




 
Chatroom Highlights:

### for a DSC noob, how well does it compare with Puppet?
 Linux guys are pushing and I am not too familiar with it.
 Does an IT shop need both?


##DSC noob here too...any suggestions or some practical
examples to gain some familiarity?


## when can we expect to get resources written by other
product teams?


##Will Test-TargetResource tell you what's deviating if it
fails?


## will MS require the various teams to provide DSC
resources (aka stop-ship, like they did with powerShell
cmdlets)


##When will the DscResourceDesigner's Test-DscResource
handle more complex schema.mofs?


##What's failing is the wave resources that you've released
fail to validate with Test-DscResource


## How far downlevel will WMF5 be supported?
 2008R2?


### What is N for WMF5?


totally unrelated…on win 8.1, how would one get past
“access denied†when trying to use location services (like
this:
http://www.verboon.info/2013/10/powershell-script-get-computergeolocation/)


http://youtu.be/JM7e5tsYOi8


http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014