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Configuring an HTTP/HTTPS pull server

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Configuring an HTTP/HTTPS pull server

- [Voiceover] Now, let's go ahead and talk about how we can configure an HTTP pull server for DSC. Now, much like we configure an SMB share, now we're actually just gonna be using a web service to make this work. Now, before we can actually do this and actually configure the server to be a pull server, there are a couple of things that have to be in place first. We have to have IIS installed. We also wanna make sure we have the DSC service. These are both roles and features on your Windows servers that you can install fairly easily. Or you can DSC to install them as well. We're also gonna be using a PS Gallery module called xPSDesiredStateConfiguration that you'll have to make sure that you install as well. And we talk about that in another video in this course. But when you look at the configuration here for HTTP, well, notice a couple of things that are unique to it. First off, we're just checking to make sure that the DSC service is in place. Oh, expand this down a little bit so we…

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