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PowerShell, Server administration

Creating a PowerShell DSC extension for your custom tasks

Following my post on automating your mundane Azure Virtual Machine Windows provisioning tasks with PowerShell DSC, it may happen that you have custom tasks that you want to do that that are not already available on PowerShell gallery. You may also have custom complex logic that you want to reuse across many different DSC scripts that you would like to centralize. This is where extensions come into play. It allows you to create custom resource operations that you can use within your nodes provisioning. There are a few ways to create extensions: Using MOF-based resources in PowerShell Using Class-based resources in PowerShell Using Composite resources in PowerShell Using MOF-based resources in C# Using the Resource Designer Tool Today, I will…

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December 2, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 2 Comments
Azure, Server administration

Automating your mundane Azure Virtual Machine Windows provisioning tasks with PowerShell DSC

I’ve been working in various projects and helping different people with their tasks when it comes to provisioning their Azure Windows Servers or Windows 10 virtual machines. One thing that I realized, is how much time is spent post provisioning for repetitive tasks that could be done through automation. I can say that I am proud of the fact that, after discussing with me, they all start embracing Infrastructure As Code (IaC) through ARM. Well most of them that is hahaha! Side note, if you are doing ARM, checkout Bicep; this will save you so much time in writing your ARM templates and there’s great linting and code completion when used in Visual Studio Code with the extension! But what…

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November 27, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment