PowerShell 5.0 Desired State Configuration (DSC)


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level


Overview/Description
PowerShell 5.0 Desired State Configuration (DSC) can be used to significantly improve the way an organization defines, reports on, and manages node configuration states. In this course, you will examine DSC, resources, and pull servers.

Target Audience
IT professionals and administrators with experience using and managing Windows and Windows Server

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.8

Lesson Objectives

PowerShell 5.0 Desired State Configuration (DSC)

  • start the course
  • describe desired state configuration (DSC)
  • describe how to examine a system's configuration before DSC
  • describe how to prepare a system environment for DSC
  • demonstrate how to install the DSC feature in Windows Server 2016
  • describe how to examine and deploy an MOF file
  • describe how to create an MOF using a DSC script
  • describe how to examine DSC resources
  • describe how to work with local dependencies
  • describe how to work with distributed dependencies
  • describe how to log with DSC
  • describe how to find, retrieve, and use new resources

    • Course Number:
    os_psws_a08_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate