After successfully running DSC in production for all this time, you sit back amazed that all the work you have been doing is additive. You haven't had to undo work you've previously done to get something new automated, and you can handle the most insane list of requirements life can dish out with ease.

Of course, it wasn't always easy and might have required some extra thought or preparation. It might have required changing how you approached things to something more aligned with configuration management processes you read in the beginning of the book. DSC didn't have a DSC Resource built-in for every piece of software in your environment or every task you needed to accomplish, but we can say that for any CM product on the market. The point of any CM is not to provide a way to do everything but to provide a way to do most things and a way for you to do the rest that's unique to your environment. From reading this book, you know how to create DSC Resources to handle your special...