Azure Automation DSC – Uploading Configurations

In the past few blog post I have shown you how to get started with Azure Automation DSC, in the first blog post I coved how to Enable Azure Automation Preview and in the second how to Register Servers to Azure Automation DSC.  In this blog post I am going to go over how we can upload a DSC configuration to Azure Automation DSC. First we will need a Configuration, there are a few public repositories the most popular two are on Github and  Powershellgallery. for my example we are going to use the configuration below. Configuration WebServer {

node IIS

{

WindowsFeature IIS

{

          Name = 'web-server'

          Ensure = 'Present'

}

}

} save the above configuration as  webserver.ps1 Upload Configuration to Azure Automation DSC $myConfig = $MyAutomationAccount | Import-AzureAutomationDscConfiguration -SourcePath 'C:\DSCConfigs\webserver.ps1' -Description "Test WebServer Config" -Published -force $myConfig = Get-AzureAutomationDSCConfiguration -ResourceGroupName "mms-eus" -AutomationAccountName "MSDNAutomation" Start Compilation Job $myCompileJob = $myConfig | Start-AzureAutomationDscCompilationJob Check Status of Compilation Job $myCompileJob | Get-AzureAutomationDscCompilationJob In the next blog post I will show you how to link the configuration to a Node.