1. The future of deployments by Rami Mounla
PowerShell DSC
The future of deployments by Rami Mounla

4. Today’s outline About myself Learn about DSC Look at DSC in action
Check the DSC CRM configuration

5. About myself Solution Architect Lead of the Dynamics CRM Team
MCP – MCSD – MCTS
Dynamics CRM MVP

7. Who are you? TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 11:52 PM
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8. Industry Maturity Model

9. Deployments Characteristics
Predictable
Repeatable
Fast
Automated
No Human

10. 5 days!!! C++ Previous Experience Platform SQL Prerequisites AD
Firewall
½ day VM
1 day

11. Environment Drift

12. PowerShell - Desired State Configuration
DSC

13. What is DSC
“DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run”

14. What Does DSC provide?
“DSC provides a set of Windows PowerShell language extensions, new Windows PowerShell cmdlets, and resources that you can use to declaratively specify how you want your software environment to be configured.”

15. What are the advantages?
Avoid configuration drift
Keep configurations the same for all servers (all environments)
Easily create VMs from scratch for every deploy
On-premise or cloud (e.g. Azure)

16. So what?
Increase the (on going) assurance that deployment will succeed
Faster Deployments
Automate and simplify our deployments

17. MAKE IT SO! How does it work?
Authoring Phase: Create Configuration PowerShell
Staging Phase: Create MOF file
Apply the configuration to the server
Push
Start-DscConfiguration
Pull
OData services to pull the details
Runs as System User
MAKE IT SO!

18. Architecture

19. DSC Cocktails

20. Providers Provider DSC Archive Resource DSC Environment Resource
Description
DSC Archive Resource
Unpacks archive (.zip) files at specific paths on target nodes.
DSC Environment Resource
Manages system environment variables on target nodes.
DSC File Resource
Manages files and directories on target nodes.
DSC Group Resource
Manages local groups on target nodes.
DSC Log Resource
Logs configuration messages.
DSC Package Resource
Installs and manages packages, such as Windows Installer and setup.exe packages, on target nodes.
DSC WindowsProcess Resource
Configures Windows processes on target nodes.
DSC Registry Resource
Manages registry keys and values on target nodes.
DSC WindowsFeature Resource
Adds or removes Windows features and roles on target nodes.
DSC Script Resource
Runs Windows PowerShell script blocks on target nodes.
DSC Service Resource
Manages services on target nodes.
DSC User Resource
Manages local user accounts on target nodes.

21. 156 Other Providers xPendingReboot
Checks to see if a reboot is pending and allows DSC to predictably handle the condition
xSmbShare
Allow's configuration of a SMB Share
xADDomain
Allows configuration of Active Directory components
xChrome
Installs the Chrome browser
xUAC
 Allows configuration of User Account Control prompt.
xWindowsUpdate
Handles  installation of  a Windows update (or a hotfix) from a given path (file path or a URI)
xFirewall
Manage firewall rules

22. Demo
Resource example & Diff

23. Prerequisites Windows Management Framework (WMF) 4.0
PowerShell 4.0 with remoting enable
.NET 4.5
Preferably 2012 R2 or 8.1
Patch KB (for eXperimental resources)

25. CRM 2015 perquisites AD OU Service Account SQL (with specific config)
Access to Performance Log Users group
SQL (with specific config)
.NET 3.5
.NET 4.5.2
Installation account must be Domain account
Cannot run using remoting

26. Typical CRM deploy: UI

27. Typical CRM deploy: Scripted Deploy
<CRMSetup> <Server> <Patch update="true"> </Patch> <LicenseKey>****</LicenseKey> <SqlServer>WIN-FJSSHT6JGM6</SqlServer> <Database create="true"/> <Reporting URL=" <OrganizationCollation>Latin1_General_CI_AI</OrganizationCollation> <basecurrency isocurrencycode="NZD" currencyname="New Zealand Dollar" currencysymbol="$" currencyprecision="2"/> <Organization>CRM 2015 Organisation</Organization> <OrganizationUniqueName>CRM2015Org</OrganizationUniqueName> <OU>OU=DynamicsCrmOu,DC=TheAuthority,DC=local</OU> <WebsiteUrl create="true" port="5555"> </WebsiteUrl> <InstallDir>c:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM</InstallDir> ... <SQM optin="false"/> <muoptin optin="true"/> < > <IncomingExchangeServer name=""/> </ > </Server> </CRMSetup>

28. Command line
E:\Server\amd64\SetupServer.exe /Q /l C:\deployment\crmserver_install.log /config C:\deployment\crmConfigurationFile2015.xml

29. Demo
CRM using DSC

30. Your Turn…

31. Resources Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble, David Darley
a Martin Fowler Signature book
(good place to start)
(PluralSight course)
(Microsoft Providers)
(eXperimantal Resources)

32. Questions?