A really interesting video from Microsoft was just released with Mark Russinovich (CTO of Azure if you don’t already know) demonstrating Windows Server Containers. What is really interesting about this demo is that he is demonstrating containers using a Windows NanoServer Base Image:
Nano Server Containers Base Image - it does exist.
If you’ve read any of my previous posts here and here you’ll know I spent quite some time looking at this and trying to get it going with TP3.
Introduction Continuing on with implementing File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) DSC Modules, I’ve added a new module for configuring File Screens, File Screen Templates and File Screen Exceptions. If you missed it the previous module for configuring quotas can be found here.
Resources This module contains the following resources:
cFSRMFileScreen - configures FSRM File Screen. cFSRMFileScreenAction - configures FSRM File Screen Actions for File Screens. cFSRMFileScreenTemplate - configures FSRM File Screen Templates.
The Microsoft DSC Resource Kit has been updated with a bunch of new stuff. You can check this out here.
If you’re using DSC, you’re no doubt familiar with the Microsoft DSC Resource Kit as it provides some of the most useful resources available outside of the base DSC Resources. You should really go and check it out to see what sort of thing you can be configuring with DSC straight out of the box.
Introduction After implementing (but not yet completing) the my DFS Replication Groups resource last week, I had an epiphany about another resource that I had begun writing some time ago but had run into problems with. The epiphany allowed me to resolve the issues holding up completion of this resource as well as dig more deeply into the FSRM for my studies.
Resources Initially I was going to create all of the FSRM Resources (File Groups, File Classifications etc) in a single module, but I quickly realized that this wasn’t ideal as the number of modules to support this was actually quite large.
Recently I’ve been attempting to help out with the awesome Microsoft Community DSC Resources by throwing in a bit of code here and there - especially into the xNetworking resource. I started contributing to them because I had a need for some specific features in these resources for some other projects I was working on.
Anyway, long story short I found myself investigating an odd little bug with the xIPAddress resource (it configures an IPv4 or IPv6 address on a Network adapter).
