Upgrading from WMF 5 Production Preview to RTM breaks DSC

DSC
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Just a heads up, don’t “upgrade” your servers from Production preview to RTM. You’ll get the following error when using Set-DScLocalConfigurationManager.

No instance found with given property values.
At C:\temp\dsctest.ps1:172 char:5

  • Set-DscLocalConfigurationManager -ComputerName mymachine -Path …
  • CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (root/Microsoft/…gurationManager:String) , CimException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x8033801a
  • PSComputerName : mymachine

To fix, perform the following;

  1. Uninstall RTM, reboot
  2. Uninstall Production Preview, reboot
  3. Install RTM, reboot
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This is documented under https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/wmf/limitation_dsc

DSC cmdlets may not work if WMF 5.0 RTM is installed on top of WMF 5.0 Production Preview
Resolution: Run the following command in an elevated PowerShell session (run as administrator):
mofcomp $env:windir\system32\wbem\DscCoreConfProv.mof

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Thanks for the heads up Alex. I wish they mentioned that link when RTM was announced. Googling the issue I had didn’t bring it up .

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Thanks for the link, Alex. I needed it, too.

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Also fyi, it looks like wmf5 has been pulled as it resets the module path back to defaults.

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Thanks Alex. Running that mofcomp command fixed this for me, too. I was getting a “not found” error from Get-DscLocalConfigurationManager:


$ Get-DscLocalConfigurationManager
Get-DscLocalConfigurationManager : Not found 
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-DscLocalConfigurationManager
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (MSFT_DSCLocalConfigurationManager:root/Microsoft/...gurationManager) [Get-DscLocalConfigurationManager], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80041002,Get-DscLocalConfigurationManager
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I had the same issue.
error:

PS C:\tools> Get-DscConfiguration
No instance found with given property values.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x8033801a
    + PSComputerName        : localhost

PS C:\tools> $Error[0].CategoryInfo


Category   : MetadataError
Activity   :
Reason     : CimException
TargetName : root/Microsoft/Windows/DesiredStateConfiguration:MSFT_DSCLocalConfigurationManager
TargetType : String

start powershell as admin
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mofcomp $env:windir\\system32\\wbem\\DscCoreConfProv.mof

Stop-DscConfiguration

It takes a long time to solve it :frowning: