From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Advanced Automation
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Setting up a DSC pull server
From the course: PowerShell: Scripting for Advanced Automation
Setting up a DSC pull server
- [Instructor] The best way to truly automate DSC is to create a repository of configurations, and then train the various servers and workstations in your active directory environment to pull those configurations at regular intervals. There are three different ways you can do this. You can use Azure Automation DSC, you could set up a DSC pull server using IIS and the DscWebService, or you could create an SMB share. Each method has its advantages. Azure has become a huge part of any Microsoft environment, especially at the enterprise level. The web service has been a common approach since DSC was released in PowerShell 4 but it's undergone some changes, and those changes mean you have to track which version of PowerShell each node is using and change configuration modes accordingly. What I'm going to show in this video is how to use an SMB pull server. There are two prerequisites that you will need to start. You can install the first one of those by running install-module name…
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