PowerShell 5.0 and Desired State Configuration — Lesson 3: LCM, Push, Pull, and Compliance

Learning Objectives

• Configure LCM refresh, configuration, and reboot behavior
• Deploy configurations using push and pull approaches
• Check compliance, drift, reporting, and automatic correction

Detailed Topics

• Configure LCM refresh: Configure LCM refresh, configuration, and reboot behavior
• Deploy configurations using push and pull approaches: Deploy configurations using push and pull approaches
• Check compliance: Check compliance, drift, reporting, and automatic correction

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Implement and compare push and pull configuration workflows.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply LCM, Push, Pull, and Compliance in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.