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From the course: PowerShell Desired State Configuration Essential Training
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- [Voiceover] Now when you work with a local configuration manager client, you may want to actually set it up so it not only applies the configurations that we want from a pull or push configuration, but also make sure that everything stays in check. Now there's another parameter that we have to work with when we do this inside of the LCM. In addition to pull or push, which is the refresh mode, we actually have to set up what is called the configuration mode. Now the configuration mode actually has three parameters for it. So let me go ahead and get this typed in. Configurationmode. And it's a string value, so I have to put it around with quotes. By default wherein what is called ApplyandMonitor. Now what this does, it's going to do the initial application of the DSC configuration for us, apply it, and then just monitor it. And if we have configuration drift if something changes, it's going to log that into the log file so we actually can go in and see what's happening. Now it's not…
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