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“Undefined Property ConfigurationName” When Starting a DSC Configuration

March 19, 2015 Jacob Benson

Update: This issue is resolved in the November 2014 Update Rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Thanks to Dave Wyatt for the heads up! So, there I was today, working on a Custom DSC Resource and when I ran Start-DSCConfiguration I got this error:

VERBOSE: Perform operation 'Invoke CimMethod' with following parameters, ''methodName' = SendConfigurationApply,'className' = MSFT_DSCLocalConfigurationManager,'namespaceName' = root/Microsof
t/Windows/DesiredStateConfiguration'.
VERBOSE: An LCM method call arrived from computer 0497JACOBB with user sid S-1-5-21-2936601924-3794413074-933163191-500.
VERBOSE: [DC01]: LCM:  [ Start  Set      ]
VERBOSE: [DC01]: LCM:  [ End    Set      ]
Undefined property ConfigurationName
 At line:19, char:2
 Buffer:
onName = "TestVSS";
};^
insta
    + CategoryInfo          : SyntaxError: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MiClientApiError_Failed
    + PSComputerName        : dc01.arkenstone.com
 
VERBOSE: Operation 'Invoke CimMethod' complete.
VERBOSE: Time taken for configuration job to complete is 0.678 seconds

VERBOSE: Perform operation 'Invoke CimMethod' with following parameters, ''methodName' = SendConfigurationApply,'className' = MSFT_DSCLocalConfigurationManager,'namespaceName' = root/Microsof

t/Windows/DesiredStateConfiguration'.

VERBOSE: An LCM method call arrived from computer 0497JACOBB with user sid S-1-5-21-2936601924-3794413074-933163191-500.

VERBOSE: [DC01]: LCM: [ Start Set ]

VERBOSE: [DC01]: LCM: [ End Set ]

Undefined property ConfigurationName

At line:19, char:2

Buffer:

onName = "TestVSS";

};^

insta

+ CategoryInfo : SyntaxError: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MiClientApiError_Failed

+ PSComputerName : dc01.arkenstone.com

VERBOSE: Operation 'Invoke CimMethod' complete.

VERBOSE: Time taken for configuration job to complete is 0.678 seconds

Well, what the hell

Demo DSC – Part 3

March 13, 2015 Jacob Benson

In Part 1 of this series I talked about how I demo’d the building of a Domain Controller. In Part 2 I talked about demoing the building of a Pull Server, an App Server, and then using the two servers to show how a Pull Server works and what needs to be done to make

Demo DSC – Part 2

March 10, 2015 Jacob Benson

In Part 1 of this series I talked about how I demo’d the building of a Domain Controller. In Part 2 I am going to talk about how I demo’d building a Pull Server, an App Server, and used the two servers to show how a Pull Server works and what needs to be done

Demo DSC – Part 1

March 8, 2015 Jacob Benson

This is the first in a series of posts outlining how I presented a demo of Desired State Configuration (DSC) for the organization I work for. This was never intended to demonstrate all the features and capabilities of DSC (there’s a lot!), but instead was done to show at a high level the kinds of

Exploring the PowerShell DSC xPendingReboot Resource

February 21, 2015 Jacob Benson

While building a DSC Demo for the new job this week I got the chance to explore using many of the “new” Resources that have been released. One of those Resources is the xPendingReboot which I am going to talk about here, because the documentation wasn’t very clear (to me anyways after having been away

Moving SCOM 2012 R2 Data Warehouse Database to New SQL Server Cluster

February 4, 2015 Jacob Benson

This is the second of two posts in regards to moving Operations Manager 2012 R2 Databases. The first post about moving the OperationsManager database can be found here. I won’t rehash any of that information but will instead just get right into the How To portion. The TechNet article for moving the SCOM DataWarehouse Database

Moving SCOM 2012 R2 Database to New SQL Server Cluster

February 4, 2015 Jacob Benson

When our System Center environment (VMM, Orchestrator, SCOM, DPM) was originally setup all the databases were installed on a single SQL Server VM (but in separate instances). For a variety of reasons I made the decision that our System Center databases needed to at least be in a cluster configuration. Luckily I stumbled across this excellent guide

2015 PowerShell Resolutions

December 23, 2014 Jacob Benson

I am stealing this idea from Boe Prox. He blogged about his own PowerShell Resolutions for 2015. I will keep this short and sweet. In no particular order here are my PowerShell Resolutions for 2015: Figure out a PowerShell related topic to speak about that I won’t get bored with in a month or two

Creation of the VMM Resource Group Failed

August 7, 2014 Jacob Benson

While trying to install VMM as a Highly Available following the steps in this article, I kept running into the same issue over and over and over again. The installation would start, run for a few minutes, and then fail and rollback with this error at the end: “Creation of the VMM resource group VMM

PowerShell DSC Journey – Day 23

July 11, 2014 Jacob Benson

No intro. Going right back into trying to add a Network Adapter and a VMNetwork to that adapter. I look first at the hardware profile, and lo and behold I have 9 legacy network adapters, which is interesting because yesterday I had none. So, I remove them all first. Ok, first things first, let’s make