Custom resources

- [Voiceover] One of the great things of DSC Resources…is that you can make your own.…Now you can create your own custom resources,…not only for your own use,…but you can also share them up to the broader community.…Now, folks, this is where DSC crosses that line…between PowerShell and IT administration aren't coding,…although it's PowerShell friendly,…and you can use PowerShell to create custom resources,…you can also use them leveraging MOF,…the Microsoft Operation Framework,…or C#, to actually create and define these.…Now remember what does the resource do?…It does two things for us.…

It creates that configuration code,…so that when we're creating our configuration file…inside of DSC, we know which keywords to put in place,…like ensure, so we make sure that a certain service…is in place before we perform a task on that service.…But we also have the schema or that definition…of how we get to do that work.…So that when we say it's there,…what do we go check?…What are we looking for?…Well the resource does both.…