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Learning PowerShell DSC

By : James Pogran
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Learning PowerShell DSC

By: James Pogran

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning PowerShell DSC
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Marcin Grzywa is a senior software developer at Objectivity Bespoke Software Specialists. After getting an MSc in computer science degree in 2008, he spent the following years developing and architecting applications in various technologies, including Java EE, MS Business Intelligence, .NET, and JavaScript. Having always been interested in improving development processes, he then focused on using TeamCity and PowerShell in Continuous integration (CI) pipelines, which led him to Configuration as Code and PowerShell DSC.

He is also the author of open source projects PSCI (Powershell Continuous Integration) and PowerShell ISE Project Explorer.

Brian Scholer is a systems engineer with over 13 years of experience across server administration, virtualization, software development, web operations, networking, and more. He is the author of the xPfxImport DSC Resource (pending inclusion in Microsoft's xCertificate module). He blogs at http://www.briantist.com/.

Sergei Vorobev is a software developer at Microsoft. After working on the DSC Azure extension, he concentrate on PowerShell language for PowerShell v5. He is passionate about developer tools and developer experience. You can find him on Twitter at @xvorsx, where he rambles on about languages, frameworks, version control systems, workflows, scripts, and one-liners.

Dave Wyatt has been in the IT industry since 1999, working primarily as a systems administrator and engineer for the Windows Server environments. He has been heavily focused on the scripting and automation of Windows systems since that time, and he became a Microsoft MVP (PowerShell) in 2014.

Currently, he is an operations engineer for DevOpsGuys, focusing mainly on building continuous delivery pipelines for clients, which includes the configuration management of Windows servers using Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration. He is also on the board of directors for PowerShell.org, a not-for-profit PowerShell community organization.

He is the author of The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling, and the coauthor of Secrets of PowerShell Remoting, both free e-books available at PowerShell.org.