Month: July 2017

SharePointDSC and ReverseDSC Microsoft Virtual Academy Session

In June of 2017, my colleague Brian Farnhill and I recorded a Full Day Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) session on Automating SharePoint with PowerShell Desired State Configuration. The recording is now available for free on the MVA site and covers the following topics: Introduction to PowerShell Desired State Configuration Advanced PowerShell DSC on-premises Introduction to […]

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How to Get Started with SharePointDSC

The goal of this article is to help people interested in learning how to use PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to configure their SharePoint environment get started. While it is totally possible for you to configure a SharePoint Farm on an environment that has PowerShell 4.0 installed on, it is our recommendation that you try […]

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How to Write your Own ReverseDSC Orchestrator

ReverseDSC is a module that allows you to extract the PowerShell Desired State Configuration out of an existing environment, in order for you to analyze it, onboard it onto DSC, or replicate it somewhere else. ReverseDSC as it stands is a technology Agnostic PowerShell Module. It only provides methods to allow you to properly convert […]

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