by Nik Charlebois
I’ve been experimenting over the past few weeks with a project I’ve been planning to work on for years now. It is this concept of being able to deploy PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) in a server-less mode. In any traditional DSC project, the actual configuration gets executed by a local service that comes with […]
Read More Cloud LCM – Prototype for DSC-as-a-ServiceThis article covers a demo I presented at the 2018 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. In the real world, clients will want to automate the process of installing new Language Packs onto their SharePoint Farms, especially if those farms contain a large number of servers. The present article presents you with a fully automated process […]
Read More Use SharePointDSC to Install Language PacksStriving hard to make it easier for folks to get started with SharePointDSC, we are making changes in our documentation to categorize every resource within the module into 4 main categories: Common: Resources that needs to be defined on every node in the farm with the same values for each parameters. This category includes resources […]
Read More SharePointDSC Documentation ImprovementsWhile I already have an article that covers the details of how you can use PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to patch a SharePoint Farm, I wanted to write a second article that covers the process of patching a multi-server farm, while respecting a sequential upgrade logic. Starting with PowerShell 5.0 we can now specify […]
Read More Patching a Multi-Server Farm using PowerShell DSC and Cross-Node DependencyThe latest version of the SharePoint DSC module has been released this last Wednesday, October 5th. You can now obtain the latest bits of the module by running: If you wish to update the configurations on a given SharePoint farm to run these latest bits, make sure each .MOF file is first recompiled using the […]
Read More SharePoint DSC 1.9.0.0 is Released