PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Jeffrey P. Snover, Microsoft
Configuration Management (CM) systems like Chef and Puppet hit a wall when it comes to managing Windows because of the core architectural differences between Unix and Windows. PowerShell DSC is a tools-agnostic standards-based platform which enables a wide range of CM tools to configure Windows, Linux and other standards-based devices.
Jeffrey P Snover, Microsoft

Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for the Windows Server & System Center Division, and is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.
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author = {Jeffrey P Snover},
title = {{PowerShell} Desired State Configuration ({{DSC}})},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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