From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Advanced Automation
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Configuring a DSC pull client
From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Advanced Automation
Configuring a DSC pull client
- [Instructor] I'd like to start this segment off with a quick reminder of what we've done so far. We've created an SMB share to host our DSC configurations. We set this up with share permissions that allow server two, our target server, to read the configurations, and we also modified the NTFS permissions to allow the same thing. Then we placed the MOF file and the check sum file in that folder with a unique ID as the file name. With that in place, let's switch over to our target server. Just to show where we are and where we're headed, let me go ahead and run host name here. Currently we're on server one. Let's switch over to server two. Here we are on server two. Let's just check to make sure. Here we are, server two, so that's where we're starting. What we're going to do on this machine is configure the local configuration manager. The LCM is the engine that accepts DSC configurations and applies them to the local machine. This is where the advanced automation takes off. Let's…
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