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Blog posts May 2019

Azure automation account DSC for On-Premise Virtual Machine on boarding

In my earlier series on on-prem Powershell DSC server I shown how to configure DSC (Desired State configuration) server and its client on windows & linux. Enabling WinRm is one of the main prerequisite for all DSC operations. If I see DSC's future, Microsoft is more and more focusing on Azure DSC …

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Getting started with Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC) on Linux

DSC is a (DevOps) management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code. While writing Part 1: Configure PowerShell remoting between Windows and Linux my main motive was to configure push Desired State Configuration (DSC) on L…

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Configure PowerShell remoting between Windows and Linux

After opensource PowerShell core 6 for linux was available to download, I wrote an article on it - How to Install and Use Microsoft PowerShell on Linux. This is just an addition to same guide. Few of my linux servers were installed with PowerShell core and they were installed with few PS modul…

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Powershell Generate Self-signed certificate with Self-Signed Root CA Signer

While exploring options on creating self signed SSL certificate using PowerShell, I got to know one of the good New-SelfSignedCertificate parameter Signer. It can be used by developers for testing purpose or I can also use it to generate fake CA signed certificates for my lab experiments. All the …

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Enable Access to the VCSA Bash shell or Appliance Shell

Currently, the vCSA is bundled with below supported shells - BASH Shell & Appliance Shell. The appliance shell can be used to update the VCSA, using the software-packages command and has some other use cases. When you log in for first time by default it shows appliance shell, below is the method to …

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