The DscTools PowerShell module provides several tools that make implementing, managing and troubleshooting PowerShell Desired State Configuration easier.
Please leave comments, feature requests, and bug reports in the issues tab for this module.
This project has adopted this Code of Conduct.
For each merge to the branch master
a preview release will be
deployed to PowerShell Gallery.
Periodically a release version tag will be pushed which will deploy a
full release to PowerShell Gallery.
If you would like to modify DscTools module, please feel free. Please refer to the Contribution Guidelines for information about style guides, testing and patterns for contributing to DSC resources.
To manually install the module, download the source code and unzip the contents of the \Modules\DscTools directory to the $env:ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules folder
To install from the PowerShell gallery using PowerShellGet (in PowerShell 5.0) run the following command:
Find-Module -Name DscTools -Repository PSGallery | Install-Module
The minimum PowerShell version required is 4.0, which ships in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012R2 (or higher versions). The preferred version is PowerShell 5.0 or higher, which ships with Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016.
For a full list of functionalities in DscTools and examples on their use, check out the DscTools wiki.
A full list of changes in each version can be found in the change log