Patrik Husfloen

We're running into the same issue. Forcing the file copy wouldn't solve the problem as we need to cleanly shut down the service as well. We tried xService ShutDownAndUninstallService File...

I think the problem is that we want to specify a sequence of events, and DSC is all about state, I guess that disconnect could explain why it doesn't "fit"....

@kwirkykat I still don't get it though, we can't replace the service executable while it's in use right? So how will checking the content fix that? And even if we...

@kwirkykat Would creating my own service installer resource using `Invoke-DscResource` be a supported path forward? It would let me reuse the current resources, and I would have complete control over...

@kwirkykat Sorry, let me rephrase: is using `Invoke-DscResource` within a script resource acceptable or is that something you would not recommend doing? (Edit: Or was that what the "Sure" was...

@kwirkykat We'll try the work-around and report back, but it would be nice if DSC had an option where you could reuse resources while ignoring the the "State" part of...

@kwirkykat I think the only way to make xService truly useful is to give it a source and a destination path and implement something like this: 1. If contents of...

Pretty sure PCL has been deprecated: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/

Especially useful for those offline scenarios when you use seqcli to ingest log files: 1. acquire files (outside the scope of seqcli) 2. clean seq 3. ingest files And thinking...

@leastprivilege Any updates on this? We're in the same situation as OP and would love to see this merged.