Managing Access Control with Desired State Configuration Sept. 15, 2021, 11:13 a.m.

Over the summer, the PowerShell Access Control module got some DSC resources to help manage security descriptors for for some of the supported object types. The module includes three resources: cAccessControlEntry, cSecurityDescriptorSddl, and cSecurityDescriptor.

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Creating a Composite DSC Configuration with Parameters Jan. 6, 2020, 12:37 p.m.

When a Composite Configuration is created as an ordinary module, it seems like it behaves like an ordinary Cmdlet. This means, to pass parameters to the composite configuration I had to do:

Node localhost 
{ 
    BaseConfig Common -MyParameter "My Parameter Value" {} 
}

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