Greetings interweb. It’s been a while but I’m back with a new video finally. This video focuses on Desired State Configuration Manager (DSC) and how to configure Advanced Auditing using DSC. You can certainly configure DSC using a group policy object (GPO). My use case for this is if...
Desired State Configuration Manager
How to view PowerShell Desired State Configuration Manager resource properties
Since my two previous Desired State Configuration Manager videos, I have gotten more than a few questions asking how to view a specific DSC resources properties. Unlike your typical PowerShell CMDlet, you can’t view properties of a DSC resource using Get-Member. To view DSC resource properties you have to...
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) How-To for Beginners (Pull Mode)

This script will accomplish 3 things; configure a pull server, create a basic configuration to be pulled by a target node, and create a Local Configuration Manager configuration for the target node. Execute the following code on the Pull Server: # Step 1 Install xPSDesiredStateConfiguration Install-Module -Name xPSDesiredStateConfiguration #...
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) How-To for Beginners (Push Model)

In this video, I cover only a few very basic PowerShell Desired State Configuration Manager (DSC) concepts. 1. The terminology 2. How to create a Local Configuration Manager (LCM) configuration 3. How to push the LCM configuration to the target node 4. How to create a basic DSC configuration...