Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.2 was released at the end of April, and unlike the usual point release, this one brings substantial changes. First-class Windows resources without the PSDSC adapter dance, an experimental Bicep ↔ DSC bridge, and a properly grown-up expression language.

If you haven’t caught up on DSC v3 yet, start with my DSC v3 primer — this post assumes you know what dsc.exe is and how a v3 configuration document is structured. For everything else that happened in PowerShell-land over the same window, see the April roundup.

Microsoft DSC v3.2 was released at the end of April and is genuinely the most interesting thing to happen in DSC-land in a long time. Before going into what’s new in v3.2 though, it’s worth a primer — DSC v3 has been around for a bit, but if you tried it in v1.1, bounced off it in v2, or just never made the time for it, the landscape now is meaningfully different. Here’s the quick catch-up.

For everything else that’s happened in PowerShell-land recently, see the April roundup.