Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Narayanan Lakshmanan from the PowerShell team about DSC

http://powershell.org/wp/community-events/summit/

The PowerShell Portland User Group is meeting April 15th

The Greater Milwaukee Script Club is meeting on April 15th

The Tampa PowerShell User Group is meeting on April 17th

Guest - Narayanan Lakshmanan

WMF5 Preview

DSC Resource Kit

Wave 1

Wave 2

DSC Resource Designer

Wave 3

All modules - download

Don Jones’ - The DSC ebook (free)

TechNet Virtual Lab: Desired State Configuration with Window Server 2012 R2

### for a DSC noob, how well does it compare with Puppet?  Linux guys are pushing and I am not too familiar with it.  Does an IT shop need both?

##DSC noob here too...any suggestions or some practical examples to gain some familiarity?

## when can we expect to get resources written by other product teams?

##Will Test-TargetResource tell you what's deviating if it fails?

## will MS require the various teams to provide DSC resources (aka stop-ship, like they did with powerShell cmdlets)

##When will the DscResourceDesigner's Test-DscResource handle more complex schema.mofs?

##What's failing is the wave resources that you've released fail to validate with Test-DscResource

## How far downlevel will WMF5 be supported?  2008R2?

### What is N for WMF5?

totally unrelated…on win 8.1, how would one get past “access denied” when trying to use location services (like this: http://www.verboon.info/2013/10/powershell-script-get-computergeolocation/)

http://youtu.be/JM7e5tsYOi8

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