Little over two months after releasing SharePointDsc v3.1, we have released v3.2. This new release introduces two new resources and a lot of new features and bugfixes. This release is part of the DSC Resource Kit which was released on February 20th 2019.
Improvement/Fixes in v3.2:
- Changes to SharePointDsc unit testing
- Implemented Strict Mode version 1 for all code run during unit tests.
- Changed InstallAccount into PSDscRunAsCredential parameter
- SPAuthenticationRealm
- New resource for setting farm authentication realm
- SPConfigWizard
- Updated PSConfig parameters according recommendations in blog post of Stefan Gossner
- SPDistributedCacheService
- Fixed exception on Stop-SPServiceInstance with SharePoint 2019
- SPFarm
- Improved logging
- Added ability to manage the Developer Dashboard settings
- SPFarmSolution
- Fixed issue where uninstalling a solution would not work as expected if it contained web application resources.
- SPIncomingEmailSettings
- New resource for configuring incoming email settings
- SPInstallPrereqs
- Improved logging
- Corrected detection for Windows Server 2019
- Corrected support for Windows Server 2019 for SharePoint 2016
- SPProductUpgrade
- Fixed issue where upgrading SP2013 would not properly detect the installed version
- Fixed issue where the localized SharePoint 2019 CU was detected as a Service Pack for a Language Pack
- SPSearchAuthorativePage
- Fixed issue where modifying search query would not target the correct search application
- SPSearchResultSource
- Updated resource to allow localized ProviderTypes
- SPServiceAppSecurity
- Updated resource to allow localized permission levels
- SPServiceInstance
- Added -All switch to resolve "Unable to locate service application" in SP2013
- SPSite
- SPUserProfileProperty
- Fix user profile property mappings does not work
- SPUserProfileServiceApp
- Added warning message when MySiteHostLocation is not specified. This is currently not required, which results in an error. Will be corrected in SPDsc v4.0 (is a breaking change).
- SPUserProfileSyncConnection
- Fixed issue where test resource never would return true for any configurations on SharePoint 2016/2019
- Fixed issue where updating existing connection never would work for any configurations on SharePoint 2016/2019
- Updated documentation to reflect that Fore will not impact configurations for SharePoint 2016/2019. Updated the test method accordingly.
- SPUserProfileSyncService
- Fixed issue where failure to configure the sync service would not throw error
- SPWebAppPeoplePickerSettings
- Converted password for access account to secure string. Previsouly the resource would fail setting the password and an exeption was thrown that printed the password in clear text.
- SPWebAppPolicy
- Fixed issue where parameter MembersToExclude did not work as expected
- SPWorkflowService
- Added support for specifying scope name.
- Added support for detecting incorrect configuration for scope name and WorkflowHostUri
A huge thanks to the following guys for contributing to this project:
Yvan Duhamel, Jens Otto Hatlevold, Brian Lalancette and Mike Lacher
Also a huge thanks to everybody who submitted issues and all that support this project. It wasn’t possible without all of your help!
For more information about how to install SharePointDsc, check our Readme.md.
Let us know in the comments what you think of this release! If you find any issues, please submit them in the issue list on GitHub.
Happy SharePointing!!
