by Darren Mar-Elia | May 20, 2015 | Security-related
I had a good email conversation last week with someone on the PowerShell team at Microsoft, in the wake of the release of our Desired State Configuration CSE. The gist of his question was around how users could protect the configuration information held within the DSC...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 12, 2015 | Desired State Configuration
If any of you were at Microsoft’s Ignite conference last week, and caught the session I participated in around Group Policy, you might have heard me talk about an exciting new piece of technology related to PowerShell Desired State Configuration that we were...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 15, 2014 | Technology Futures
Over the past year, I’ve had occasion to work with some large enterprises that are pushing the envelope in terms of what the next generation of client computing will look like. In the process of this work, I’ve come to recognize what I think will be an...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2014 | Desired State Configuration
For those of you who read my blog, you’ll know that I am a big fan of the Desired State Configuration feature Microsoft introduced in PowerShell v4. For more information, you can see my early walkthrough of DSC and a comparison of Group Policy vs. DSC. And while...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, PowerShell
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve become a big fan of the new Desired State Configuration feature in Windows Management Framework 4 (i.e. PowerShell 4). It makes configuring Windows Servers a snap and provides a whole new set of configuration...
