Several new cmdlets have been added or improved upon in the DSC V5 release. Listed here are the most interesting ones for the purpose of our book:
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Cmdlet |
Description |
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Get-DSCConfigurationStatus |
This cmdlet reports the high-level status of the configuration on the target node. You can obtain the last status or all statuses of all configurations that have been run. |
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Compare-DSCConfiguration |
This cmdlet compares a specified configuration against the actual state of a target node. This is useful to determine configuration drift interactively and compare differences between actual and expected states of your systems. |
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Publish-DSCConfiguration |
This cmdlet copies the configuration to the target node but does not perform initial execution of the configuration on the target node. The configuration will be applied to the next consistency pass or when you run Update-DSCConfiguration. |
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Update-DSCConfiguration |
This cmdlet forces the configuration to be processed when the cmdlet is executed. If the target node is attached to a DSC pull server, the agent will pull the configuration from the pull server before applying it. |