Microsoft Virtual Academy Jeffrey Snover Distinguished Engineer Lead

Microsoft Virtual Academy Jeffrey Snover | Distinguished Engineer & Lead Architect Jason Helmick | Author/Evangelist, Pluralsight

Course Modules Getting started with Power. Shell Desired State Config (DSC) 01 | Getting ready for DSC Architecture overview along with resources and requirements for DSC 02 | Performing a push deployment Perform a push deployment configuring the LCM and your first DSC configuration 03 | Configuring Pull servers for deployment Explore the Pull server options SMB and HTTP 04 | Deploying configurations using a Pull server Preparing your environment for pull configurations and querying diagnostic information 05 | Resource roundup Start working with the available resources in your configurations 06 | Writing better configurations Enhance your configurations with parameters, credentials and more 07 | DSC and Linux Start working cross platform with configuring Linux

Microsoft Virtual Academy 02 | Performing a push deployment Jeffrey Snover | Distinguished Engineer & Lead Architect Jason Helmick | Author/Evangelist, Pluralsight

Module Overview • The purpose for a Push deployment • Writing a DSC configuration • Configuring the Local Configuration Manager (LCM) • Creating the Management Object File (MOF) • Performing the Push deployment

The Purpose for a Push deployment

Writing a DSC configuration • Define Configuration {} • Define Node {} • Define Resource

Configuring the LCM

Creating the MOF • The purpose of MOF with DSC • Running the configuration creates the MOF

Performing the Push deployment • Creating a simple test deployment of IIS • Locate the resources needed • Create the configuration • Push the configuration

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