ComputerManagementDsc

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted this code of conduct.

Releases

For each merge to the branch main a preview release will be deployed to PowerShell Gallery. Periodically a release version tag will be pushed which will deploy a full release to PowerShell Gallery.

Contributing

Please check out common DSC Community contributing guidelines.

Change log

A full list of changes in each version can be found in the change log.

Resources

The ComputerManagementDsc module contains the following resources:

• Computer: This resource allows you to configure a computer by changing its name and description and modifying its Active Directory domain or workgroup membership.

• IEEnhancedSecurityConfiguration: This resource allows you to configure the IE Enhanced Security Configuration for administrator or user roles.

• OfflineDomainJoin: This resource allows you to join computers to an Active Directory domain using an Offline Domain Join request file.

• PendingReboot: This resource examines specific registry locations where a Windows Server might indicate that a reboot is pending and allows DSC to predictably handle the condition.

• PowerPlan: This resource allows specifying a power plan to activate.

• PowerShellExecutionPolicy: Specifies the desired PowerShell execution policy.

• RemoteDesktopAdmin: This resource will manage the remote desktop administration settings on a computer.

• ScheduledTask: This resource is used to define basic run once or recurring scheduled tasks on the local computer. It can also be used to delete or disable built-in scheduled tasks.

  The ScheduledTask resource requires the ScheduledTasks PowerShell module which is only available on Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 and above. DSC configurations containing this resource may be compiled on Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7 but can not be applied.

• SmbServerConfiguration: This resource is used to configure the SMB Server settings on the local machine.

• SmbShare: This resource is used to manage SMB shares on a machine.

• SystemLocale: This resource is used to set the system locale on a Windows machine

• TimeZone: This resource is used for setting the time zone on a machine.

• UserAccountControl: This resource allows you to configure the notification level or granularly configure the User Account Control for the computer.

• VirtualMemory: This resource allows configuration of properties of the paging file on the local computer.

• WindowsEventLog: This resource allows configuration of a specified Windows Event Log.

• WindowsCapability: This resource provides a mechanism to enable or disable Windows Capabilities on a target node.

This project has adopted this code of conduct.

Documentation and Examples

For a full list of resources in ComputerManagementDsc and examples on their use, check out the ComputerManagementDsc wiki.