PowerShell/DSC

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Forks: 75
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 253
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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

Show the invalid JSON when debugging or tracing Open

Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1266 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 15, 2025
[Feature] Support Selecting Properties in `jsonInputArg` objects. Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1265 · Opened Nov 14, 2025
[Feature] `export` should accept JSON arrays as well as JSONL Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1261 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 14, 2025
Exit codes not reliable Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

PowerShell/DSC#1245 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 8, 2025
Resource and Canonical Properties use of null Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

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

PowerShell/DSC#1237 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Lambda variables in `map()` function cannot be used as arguments to nested function calls Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

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

PowerShell/DSC#1231 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 3, 2025
Test after Set Open

Doc-Impact Issue-Documentation WG-Reviewed

PowerShell/DSC#1225 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Parameter `secureString` transforms input incorrectly on adapter Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

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

PowerShell/DSC#1209 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Canonical property schema refs Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

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

PowerShell/DSC#1181 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Copy (loop) function array/object and conditionals Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1177 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Standized code formatting via `rustfmt` Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

PowerShell/DSC#1155 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 3, 2025
New subcommand to return resources used in a config and if they exist Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage Partner-WinGet

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

PowerShell/DSC#1143 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 27, 2025
Need new ArgKind to inform importers and adapters to check content is signed Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1131 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Allow conditional resource manifest args Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1125 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 20, 2025
Synthetic export should re-export `name` Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1122 · Opened Sep 18, 2025
.NET string formatting in bicep is not supported (only rust style is) Open

Area-Bicep Issue-Bug Need-Review

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

PowerShell/DSC#1120 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Known coming breaking changes Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1114 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2025
Simplify deployment of a machine configuration definition Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1110 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2025
DSC Settings and Policy should be more strongly typed Open

Issue-Enhancement Schema-Impact

PowerShell/DSC#1081 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Support defining options for extensions Open

Issue-Enhancement Schema-Impact WG-Reviewed

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

PowerShell/DSC#1080 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Support `append`, `prepend`, `remove` Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1070 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Schematize message structure for resources and extensions Open

Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement Schema-Impact

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/DSC#1061 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2025
Improve messaging for resources Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

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

PowerShell/DSC#1058 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2025
Doc: DSC_RESOURCE_PATH Open

Issue-Bug Issue-Documentation Need-Review

PowerShell/DSC#1053 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025
MOF import extension Open

Issue-Enhancement Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/DSC#1042 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2025
Add section for `facts` to allow retrieving existing resources to be used later Open

Issue-Enhancement WG-Reviewed

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

PowerShell/DSC#1034 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 7, 2025
Schema references using $ref cannot be loaded by DSC engine Open

Issue-Bug Need-Review

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

PowerShell/DSC#1033 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2025
Add a Generic Package Resource & Registry Open

Issue-Enhancement Resource-Request

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

PowerShell/DSC#1023 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2025
Implement PowerShell import extension Open

Issue-Bug

PowerShell/DSC#1021 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2025
inDesiredState: false when resource property _exist: false Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/DSC#1020 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Add ability to indicate unstructured STDERR trace level Open

Area-OpenTelemetry Issue-Enhancement Schema-Impact

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

PowerShell/DSC#1003 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Failed to serialize properties into CimInstance Open

Issue-Bug

PowerShell/DSC#1001 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Parameter null value is not allowed Open

ARM-Language-2.0 Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#1000 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Automatic detection of newer version and updating Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/DSC#994 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Parameters object type optional schema Open

ARM-Language-2.0 Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/DSC#985 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2025
CLI parameters and subcommands Open

Breaking Change CLI-UX Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#984 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2025
--parameters-file and --file have the same short alias -f Open

Breaking Change CLI-UX Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/DSC#983 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 20, 2025
Initial features needed for Bicep Open

Area-Bicep Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/DSC#976 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Resource Localization Support Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/DSC#966 · Opened Jul 13, 2025
DSC Set does not error when return is not defined and resource returns stdout Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/DSC#963 · Opened Jul 13, 2025
DSC does not validate Test method returns _inDesiredState Open

Dev-UX Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/DSC#962 · Opened Jul 13, 2025
Add support for `PSDscRunAsCredential` input parameter for class-based resources Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/DSC#961 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 12, 2025
ARM consistent "get all" list formatting Open

Issue-Enhancement Partner Partner-MC

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

PowerShell/DSC#943 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
APT doesn't install particular version Open

Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/DSC#930 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2025
Opt out extension discovery Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/DSC#925 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 29, 2025
DNS subdomain address don't work idempotently Open

Issue-Bug Waiting on Author

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

PowerShell/DSC#924 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2025
VS Code resource manifest schema error Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

PowerShell/DSC#917 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Have a --settings option Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/DSC#894 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2025
Define canonical properties for surfacing ARM metadata Open

Doc-Impact Issue-Enhancement Partner-MC Schema-Impact

PowerShell/DSC#887 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 16, 2025
DSC config does discovery on every resource instance Open

Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/DSC#883 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2025

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