You have seen on the interwebs many blog posts and videos about setting up a Secure DSC pull server with SQL authentication with a local SQL service account. What I have not seen is a tutorial for how to setup a secure DSC Pull Server with a SQL Database using a Group Managed Service Account (gMSA). Spoiler alert it’s …

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 you have a public facing web …

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 use …

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. Create the mof to configure the target node. Execute this code on the …

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