PowerShell/DSC

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Forks: 75
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 253
Avg merge: 3d 16h
Merged PRs (30d): 24

Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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253 open issues indexed

Feature Request: Support dsc functions in executable args Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

PowerShell/DSC#1722 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Standardize and refactor error design Open

Dev-UX Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1694 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Presenting Content type property diff Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/DSC#1683 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Finish the cutover to source-generated schemas and publish missing version folders Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1673 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
https://packages.microsoft.com/ publications of DSC Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1669 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Improve synthetic diff array for test operations Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/DSC#1660 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Enhance state reporting for complex resources Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1659 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
PS Script based configuration authoring experience Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1656 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Adapted Resources Set and Test return Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/DSC#1655 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
DSC devcontainer feature Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/DSC#1626 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
CLI UX improvement: Propogate options to subcommands Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

PowerShell/DSC#1584 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 18, 2026
CLI UX improvement: `dsc extension list` Open

Issue-Enhancement Up-for-Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/DSC#1583 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Design Document: Built-in resources Open

Doc-Impact

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1539 · Opened May 21, 2026
Need streaming option for output Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage Partner-MC

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1537 · 4 comments · Opened May 19, 2026
Support `--what-if` for built-in resources Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/DSC#1529 · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2026
Adapter redesign Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1518 · Opened May 7, 2026
Proposal: Configuration as resource Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/DSC#1499 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
DSC as a SSH subsystem Open

Issue-Enhancement Need-RFC

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1495 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Enable passing JSON input properties as args to resource Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/DSC#1475 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Enable passing top-level `name` property as metadata to resources Open

Issue-Enhancement Partner-MC

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PowerShell/DSC#1472 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Add support for `actions` Open

Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/DSC#1470 · 14 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 8, 2026
Resource manifest metadata for parallel execution safety Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/DSC#1459 · Opened Apr 2, 2026
Refactor PowerShell adapter module code for maintainability Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/DSC#1452 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Setup a `rust-toolchain.toml` file to specify correct Rust toolchain version Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/DSC#1425 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 9, 2026
Static analysis of security context requirements Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1423 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 7, 2026
Assertion section in config doc Open

Issue-Enhancement Partner-WinGet

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1421 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Should the DSC engine prepend the resource name to traces? Open

Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/DSC#1396 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2026
MAINT: Refactor `dsc-lib` for consistency, library API usage, and maintainability Open

Dev-UX Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1391 · Opened Feb 17, 2026
Feature: Allow adapters to declare their types Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1381 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2026
Feature: Enable use of semantic exit codes for adapted PSDSC resources Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1380 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2026
Capability based matching for Adapters Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1378 · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Custom `psmodulepath` not supported in `Microsoft.Adapter/PowerShell` Open

Issue-Enhancement WG-Reviewed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1373 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2026
Restart Action Preference Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1371 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Parameter unknown property Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1370 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Revive VS Code DSC extension for YAML authoring Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

PowerShell/DSC#1365 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 25, 2026
Support Structured Logging in DSC Trace Open

Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1362 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Command: Resource 'powershell' [exit code 1] manifest description: Error Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1355 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2026
DSC Schema for Trace Message Open

Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1346 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 10, 2026
Proposal: SSHDConfig Set Support for Match Blocks Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1342 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2026
DSC as Services / Daemon process - pull config form Server Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1339 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2026
Consider a PSDSCv2 adapter resource Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1312 · Opened Dec 11, 2025
Tool to generate JSONSchema/AdaptedResourceManifest from PS class resource Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1311 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2025
Add DSC v3 RHEL packages to packages.microsoft.com Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/DSC#1297 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2025
DSC seems to inject "Verbose" key into resource properties, causing an error when "Verbose" is not a property in the DSC resource schema file Open

Issue-Bug WG-Reviewed

PowerShell/DSC#1296 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 28, 2025
parameters are not pass to: Microsoft.DSC/Group Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/DSC#1293 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Explicitly defining PowerShell resources doesn't allow for delete Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/DSC#1292 · Opened Nov 26, 2025
Calling "PSDesiredStateConfiguration/WindowsOptionalFeature" Fails with Error Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/DSC#1283 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2025
PowerShell based DSCv3 resources Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1279 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Canonical properties for credentials Open

Issue-Enhancement Schema-Impact

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/DSC#1273 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Unable to invoke bicep modules in bicep config files Open

Area-Bicep Issue-Bug Need-Review

PowerShell/DSC#1269 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 18, 2025

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