# DSC not accepting values from config file
**URL:** https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456
**Category:** DSC
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456 "2018-10-11T05:21:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.powershell.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/1 "2018-10-11T05:21:09Z")
Hi Everyone,
I have a weird issue with my configuration. I am trying to create RDS environment across 3 servers. My issue is that DSC not accepting value from configuration data. In my configuration data I have both PSDscAllowPlainTextPassword, PSDscAllowDomainUser fields but still I get this issue.
```
$data = @{
AllNodes = @(
@{
NodeName = '*'
PSDscAllowPlainTextPassword = $true
PSDscAllowDomainUser = $true
},
@{....
```
Even If I have both **PSDscAllowPlainTextPassword, PSDscAllowDomainUser** it is not accepting it.
ConvertTo-MOFInstance : System.InvalidOperationException error processing property ‘PsDscRunAsCredential’ OF TYPE ‘xRDSessionDeployment’: Converting and storing encrypted passwords as plain text is not recommended. For m
ore information on securing credentials in MOF file, please refer to MSDN blog: [Securing the MOF File - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=393729)
At C:\RDS2016.ps1:109 char:9
WARNING: It is not recommended to use domain credential for node ‘System.Collections.Hashtable’. In order to suppress the warning, you can add a property named ‘PSDscAllowDomainUser’ with a value of $true to your DSC conf
iguration data for node ‘System.Collections.Hashtable’.
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### Author:  [@kvprasoon](https://forums.powershell.org/u/kvprasoon)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/2 "2018-10-11T05:55:20Z")
How are you calling pushing the configuration ? Can you show us the code which is triggering the configuration.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.powershell.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/3 "2018-10-11T06:05:37Z")
Hi,
Here comes the whole config
```
$data = @{
AllNodes = @(
@{
NodeName = '*'
PSDscAllowPlainTextPassword = $true
PSDscAllowDomainUser = $true
},
@{
NodeName = 'rdcb01'
Role = 'Connection Broker'
},
@{
NodeName = 'rdsh01'
Role = 'Session Host'
},
@{
NodeName = 'rdwa01'
Role = 'Web Access'
}
);
RDSData = @{
ConnectionBroker = 'rdcb01.domain.com'
SessionHost = 'rdsh01.domain.com'
WebAccessServer = 'rdwa01.domain.com'
CollectionName = 'RDS'
AutomaticReconnectionEnabled = $true
DisconnectedSessionLimitMin = 300
IdleSessionLimitMin = 300
BrokenConnectionAction = 'Disconnect'
UserGroup = 'Domain Users'
}
}
Configuration RDS {
param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[pscredential]$DomainAdminCred
)
#region
Import-DscResource -ModuleName PSDesiredStateConfiguration,
@{ModuleName='xRemoteDesktopSessionHost';ModuleVersion="1.8.0.0"}
#endregion
Node $AllNodes.Where{$_.Role -eq 'Connection Broker'} {
$RDData = $data.RDSData
WindowsFeature RDSConnectionBroker {
Name = 'RDS-Connection-Broker'
Ensure = 'Present'
}
WindowsFeature RSATRDSTools {
Name = 'RSAT-RDS-Tools'
Ensure = 'Present'
IncludeAllSubFeature = $true
DependsOn = '[WindowsFeature]RDSConnectionBroker'
}
WaitForAll SessionHost {
NodeName = 'rdsh01'
ResourceName = '[WindowsFeature]SessionHost'
RetryIntervalSec = 15
RetryCount = 50
DependsOn = '[WindowsFeature]RSATRDSTools'
}
WaitForAll WebAccess {
NodeName = 'rdwa01'
ResourceName = '[WindowsFeature]WebAccess'
RetryIntervalSec = 15
RetryCount = 50
DependsOn = '[WaitForAll]SessionHost'
}
xRDSessionDeployment NewDeployment {
ConnectionBroker = $RDData.ConnectionBroker
SessionHost = $RDData.SessionHost
WebAccessServer = $RDData.WebAccessServer
DependsOn = '[WaitForAll]WebAccess'
PsDscRunAsCredential = $DomainAdminCred
}
xRDSessionCollection collection {
CollectionName = $RDData.CollectionName
SessionHost = $RDData.SessionHost
ConnectionBroker = $RDData.ConnectionBroker
DependsOn = '[xRDSessionDeployment]NewDeployment'
PsDscRunAsCredential = $DomainAdminCred
}
}
Node $AllNodes.Where{$_.Role -eq 'Session Host'}.NodeName {
WindowsFeature SessionHost {
Name = 'RDS-RD-Server'
Ensure = 'Present'
}
}
Node $AllNodes.Where{$_.Role -eq 'Web Access'}.NodeName {
WindowsFeature WebAccess {
Name = 'RDS-Web-Access'
Ensure = 'Present'
}
}
}
RDS -OutputPath 'C:\' -DomainAdminCred $DomainAdminCred -ConfigurationData $data -Verbose
```
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### Author:  [@kvprasoon](https://forums.powershell.org/u/kvprasoon)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/4 "2018-10-11T23:52:06Z")
You have missed to take out NodeName from Node $AllNodes.Where{$\_.Role -eq ‘Connection Broker’}
it should be Node
```
$AllNodes.Where{$_.Role -eq 'Connection Broker'}.NodeName
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.powershell.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/5 "2018-10-12T07:56:29Z")
Thank you so much. Don’t understand how could I miss that but it is wierd that DSC didn’t prompt for that.
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### Author:  [@kvprasoon](https://forums.powershell.org/u/kvprasoon)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/6 "2018-10-12T08:06:56Z")
DSC won’t prompt for that, the condition **$AllNodes.Where{$\_.Role -eq ‘Connection Broker’}** does have an output which is a hashtable, it then converts it to a string and will get **System.Collections.Hashtable** as value and will treat that as a node name. your mof file will get created with this name if you try to execute by commenting the credential part.
```
-a---- 10/12/2018 7:03 PM 4378 System.Collections.Hashtable.mof
```
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### Author:  [@dotnVo](https://forums.powershell.org/u/dotnVo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.powershell.org/t/dsc-not-accepting-values-from-config-file/11456/7 "2024-05-16T21:16:24Z")