Powershell DSC is the future of configuration management on Windows but it can be very frustrating when it fails, especially in Azure. In this session we will explore how to deploy configurations to windows servers using Azure Automation and DSC. We will go over the concepts involved and have a walk through of getting a DSC configuration to apply to a set of virtual machines. We will take a demo configuration with multiple dependencies and deploy that to a Windows Virtual Machine in Azure – we will examine what happens at each step and show you how to troubleshoot it if and when your deployment fails.