Debugging and troubleshooting configuration script files

So, you ran a DSC configuration against a target node using either Start-DscConfiguration or a Pull Server and you want to look at the logs for its execution; where do you go? If you ran it with Start-DscConfiguration and the verbose parameter, then you have a log in your console, but that goes away when you close your console and you don't have this available with a Pull Server.

Worry not, for DSC provides a rich set of information from each operation it performs, although it's not always easy to access this information.

Status at a glance

A new feature for WMF 5 is storing status information in each target node which helps in identifying the current status of a node and, recent failures of any DSC runs. You get this by issuing the Get-DSCConfigurationStatus command. This command returns high-level information about whether or not a DSC run was successful. Here is an example of the status returned:

PS C:\> Get-DscConfigurationStatus...