PowerShell DSC

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you to install modules on your Puppet master and how to open and edit the main site manifest using Secure Shell.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith discusses why Puppet and DSC together is often the best configuration management solution in mixed Windows/Linux environments.

Compliance is always a hot topic, so in this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at how Microsoft’s DSCEA can be used to create compliance reports for servers configured using PowerShell DSC.

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

In part two of this series on deploying Active Directory and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure, Russell Smith shows you how to add a PowerShell Desired State Configuration resource to the project.