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Omaha PSUG 10/27/2015 - Mike Robbins - PowerShell and Desired State Configuration
PowerShell MVP Mike Robbins joins us live from Mississippi to talk about Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in your On-Premises Datacenter.
In this day and age, with the virtualization of servers causing systems in your datacenter to multiply faster than a speeding bullet, how do you perform configuration management on all of those systems and the software that they run while operating on a shoestring budget? How do you detect and remediate configuration drift to stay in compliance with your organization’s standards? During this session, PowerShell MVP Mike F Robbins will demonstrate how DSC (Desired State Configuration) can be used to perform configuration management of the systems in your on-premises datacenter to include writing configurations, applying configurations via push and pull mode, and we’ll have a quick discussion about DSC resources. This is a beginner level DSC session, but prior experience with PowerShell is recommended.
Mike F Robbins is a Microsoft MVP on Windows PowerShell and a SAPIEN Technologies MVP. He is a co-author of Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition and is a contributing author of a chapter in the PowerShell Deep Dives book. Mike has written guest blog articles for the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog, PowerShell Magazine, and PowerShell.org. He is the winner of the advanced category in the 2013 PowerShell Scripting Games. Mike is also the leader and co-founder of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group. He blogs at mikefrobbins.com and can be found on twitter @mikefrobbins.