The purpose of this series of articles is to try and document a few of the lessons I learned while releasing new DSC resources as well as contributing to the existing Microsoft Community DSC resources. These articles are not intended to tell you how to write DSC resources from a programming perspective, but to give you some ideas on what might be expected of a DSC resource you’re releasing to the public.
I don’t know about you, but I am excited about the release to manufacture of Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0. It has been a long time coming and I’m hoping this release will resolve the issues I’ve been having with DSC configurations built on Windows 10 build 10586 (see this article).
You can download the WMF 5.0 installer for here.
The purpose of this series of articles is to try and document a few of the lessons I learned while releasing new DSC resources as well as contributing to the existing Microsoft Community DSC resources. These articles are not intended to tell you how to write DSC resources from a programming perspective, but to give you some ideas on what might be expected of a DSC resource you’re releasing to the public.
The purpose of this series of articles is to try and document a few of the lessons I learned while releasing new DSC resources as well as contributing to the existing Microsoft Community DSC resources. These articles are not intended to tell you how to write DSC resources from a programming perspective, but to give you some ideas on what might be expected of a DSC resource you’re releasing to the public.
Introduction Writing desired state configuration (DSC) resources can be a little bit tricky at first if you’ve not come from a programming background. But once you’ve written one or two, you’ll quickly find yourself churning them out like Disney releases Star Wars branded rubbish. That is how it went for me.
However, I quickly found that there is a big difference between writing a simple resource for your own consumption and releasing a community DSC resource that may be used and abused by tens, hundreds or even thousands of people.
