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CommonTasks YAML Reference

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YAML reference of DSC resources of Common Tasks

Links

1. Exercise 2: Add a new node

2. Exercise 3: Add a new role and modify a role

3. Exercise 4: Add another layer to your hierarchy

4. Exercise 5: Create and use a custom Configuration (DSC Composite Resource)

Store encrypted strings in the YAML files

• Instructions: DSC Configuration data encryption

• Script to create encrypted strings: EncryptPwd4Yml.ps1

YAML Reference of DSC Resouces

❗	To avoid problems with special characters (like German umlaut) all YAML files should be stored with UTF-8 with BOM encoding.

• Globals

• AddsDomain

• AddsDomainUsers

• AddsOrgUnitsAndGroups

• AuditPolicies

• ChocolateyPackages

• Disks

• DnsServerAdZones

• DnsServerConditionalForwarders

• DnsServerRootHints

• DnsServerSettings

• DscPullServerSql

• DscTagging

• NetworkIpConfiguration

• RegistryPolicies

• RegistryValues

• RestartSystem

• SecurityPolicies

• SoftwarePackages

• SqlServer

• UpdateServices

• WindowsEventLogs