Episode 265 - PowerScripting Podcast - Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell Team on DSC

Summary: 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   http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx https://oneget.codeplex.com/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/03/28/dsc-resource-kit-wave-3.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx dsc reskit wave 1 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2013/12/26/holiday-gift-desired-state-configuration-dsc-resource-kit-wave-1.aspx wave 2 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/02/07/need-more-dsc-resources-announcing-dsc-resource-kit-wave-2.aspx dsc reskit home http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d @marc_carter check the book here https://github.com/PowerShellOrg/ebooks/tree/master/DSC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_Object_Format http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=desired%20state%20configuration&ac=3 http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/xDscResourceDesigne-Module-22eddb29 https://vlabs.holsystems.com/vlabs/technet?eng=VLabs&auth=none&src=microsoft.holsystems.com&altadd=true&labid=10068 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-B302 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-H310 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/MDC-IL206-R#fbid=   The Question -   Superhero - He-Man