Installing the WMF 5.0 April 2015 preview

The latest released version of WMF 5.0 is the April 2015 preview. It's good to read the release document, refer the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46889

The PowerShell team releases experimental DSC resources to configure an environment, and the latest DSC resource kit is Wave 10. Let's download this from the TechNet Gallery website (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d) to install WMF 5.0 because we need the xHotfix resource to perform this action. We will discuss all about the DSC resources later in this chapter.

Note that from April 2015 onward, the DSC resource kit has been outsourced to GitHub.

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