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