Jason Yoder, MCT

I’ve been teaching PowerShell since version 1.  On occasion, I have to follow my own advice.  Here is the nifty little error that I received while playing around with DSC. Start-DscConfiguration : The directory name is invalid. At line:1 char:1 + Start-DscConfiguration -Wait -Path C:\MyFaxConfig\LON-SVR1.mof -Verbo ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo           : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-DscConfiguration], IOException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.DesiredStateConfiguration.Commands.StartDscConfigurationCommand Well, this is a pleasant one. Actually it is very simple.  Here is what I typed: Start-DscConfiguration -Wait -Path C:\MyFaxConfig\LON-SVR1.mof -Verbose Anybody???  After a lot of internet searches that came up with nothing, I turned to the help files.  Here is the example ...

Doing some work on getting a very basic DSC example ready for my PowerShell class this week.  Funny thing is, I did this entire demonstration on a flight last week and was just trying to polish it up.  While doing it again, this bug pops out of no where.  I found out on PowerShell.org a post by Dave Wyatt with a response by Don Jones to in install KB2883200.  Since I was testing in isolated VMs, I just downloaded the MSU from Microsoft and pasted it onto the Source VMs desktop and installed it.  Well, that one was already installed.  But it was not installed on the target server.  After installing it on both servers in this test, still no go.  I then installed KB3037315 and then KB2894179.  That did the trick!!!  KB3037315 I understand.  It contains an update to DSC.  KB2894179 however is concerned with the OOBE Wizard in Windows 8.1.  No idea why that third update worked, but I wanted to put it out on the net in case s...