In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

PowerShell Remoting, and even DSC, are based on open, third-party standards. With that standardized foundation, Microsoft can let other folks focus on tooling, knowing that those tools don't have to ...

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開発、テスト、本番の環境をコードで記述し、それを基に環境を自動構築する仕組みを整えると、様々なメリットがある。 一度コードを作成しておけば、同一の環境をいくつでも容易に作成できる。環境の変更が必要になれば、その内容をコードに反映させ ...

Microsoft's Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a declarative configuration platform. With DSC, the state of a machine is described using a format that should be clear to understand even if the ...

Introduced with PowerShell v4, Desired State Configuration (DSC) was a significant shift in the way that changes are made with PowerShell. Administrators now could declare configuration declaratively ...

Ansibleのwin_dscモジュールを利用してWindowsノードにPowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) を適用する場合、通常はデフォルトで5985ポート（HTTP）を使用します。しかし、セキュリティ上の理由から5985ポートを閉じたいケースもあるでしょう。実際に私の環境でも ...

At last year's TechEd conference in New Orleans, I first shared in the epiphany. I'd sat down for an evening drink with fellow Redmond columnist Don Jones to chat about the day's events. The topic of ...

I spent some time this weekend creating a quick tutorial to get started with Microsoft DSC v3.0 ☀️ Whilst Microsoft DSC v3 doesn't rely on PowerShell, it's still pretty dominant in input and output, ...