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Lability 101 Part 1: From Zero To Hero

Lability is a very cool idea, and a great way to get a lab up and running very fast.

Documentation is sadly not its strongest feature, so I will try to write a set of 101 guides to Lability to get you started quickly.

A couple of assumptions: You know PowerShell reasonably well You have looked at PowerShell DSC and have an idea what it is for You’re an IT pro in some capacity You are using WMF5 or…

I am in the process of a deep dive into DSC and I want to store my custom modules and DSC Resources in source control. To make it easy to run PowerShell modules you have to import them or have them on the PSModulePath environment variable. Since I don’t want to point a source repository to the default PowerShell module path, I want to add my custom module path to PSModulePath.

It’s actually…

Microsoft Infrastructure as Code with PowerShell DSC

Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a PowerShell platform that provides resources that enable the ability to deploy, configure and manage Windows servers.

To use DSC you have to author DSC configurations and stage the configuration to make it available for use on target systems and decide whether you will pull or push to your target systems. DSC is installed out of the box with PowerShell…