Overview
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Learn the essentials of PowerShell DSC: creating DSC configurations, working with DSC resources, and applying DSC configurations to systems via both push and pull modes.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Why we need DSC
- DSC architecture
- Configurations and resources for DSC
- DSC requirements
- Built-in resources
- Custom resources
- Finding and using DSC resources
- Creating a DSC configuration
- Parameterized configurations
- Ordering with DependsOn
- Staging configuration data
- Cross-computer synchronization
- Using Start-DscConfiguration
- Testing DSC configurations
- Restoring DSC configurations
- Understanding the pull server role
- Configuring an SMB pull server
- Configuring an HTTP/HTTPS pull server
- Understanding the Local Configuration Manager (LCM)
- Configuring the LCM for pull-based deployment
- Automatically downloading resources
- Understanding cross-platform DSC
- Basics of DSC for Linux
- Initial setup of DSC for Linux
- Configuring Linux with DSC
- Logging errors
- Working with event logs
- Using the xDscDiagnostics module
- Next steps
