Configuring Trusted Hosts about ps-autolab-env HOT 13 CLOSED

PowerShell Direct won't work for older operating systems that someone might need to set up.

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How about if I (or you) change it to add * to the array and not worry about other its and such?

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I think I've tried that in the past. If you already have settings, you can't concatenate *. I think you can only have the wildcard or specific settings.

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Now that I think about TrustedHosts only needs to be configured to allow access to the lab subnet and/or a list of computers like 'DC,S*'. That could be concatenated unless the user is already set to *.

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The only challenge to this is that each Author, and perhaps student, will need to modify this list. I know that different authors will use different computer names and IP address that are set in the PSD1 -- jsut don't know if I want to have another config file that needs to be modified.

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Can we read it in from the PSD1?

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@majst32 I think we should do this, but automation timing is an issue. I'm currently doing this during the initial host setup in Setup-Host -- We would have to do this in a per configuration Setup-Lab script - Maybe @jdhitsolutions can help us with a simple modification to read the psd1.

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Would using PowerShell Direct instead avoid having to touch the Trustedhosts setting?

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ok @jdhitsolutions @majst32 @benpiper @g0t4 -- I am now in a position to read this automatically from the configuration data -- a list of IP addresses -- and add them to trusted hosts. I can also clean them out when the lab is wiped --- is this something we want to add or is using * fine for a lab environement. --- remember, this is just a lab -- not production. Comments?

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I would vote KISS and assume this is only for a lab env.

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I vote KISS too! Thanks Wes -- Anyone else want to respond? I really don't mind adding the ability -- just not sure its really needed for something that will always be for a lab environement - Thanks to @jdhitsolutions , its only adding * to the existing array and not wiping out any original settings.

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I agree that it's okay for a lab environment. The only thing that may be worth adding is a switch that asks the user if they want to set TrustedHosts to * or just handle it themselves.

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As discussed in #76 -- I agree -- closing this to have discussion there

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