Carbon

Carbon is a DevOps PowerShell module for automating the configuration of Windows 2008 and 7 computers. Carbon can configure and manage:

Local users and groups
IIS websites, virtual directories, and applications
Certificates
.NET connection strings and app settings
Junctions
File system permissions
Hosts file
INI files
Performance counters
Services
Shares
Windows features/components
And much more!

System Requirements

Windows 2008 (x64) and Windows 7 (x64).

Installation

Download the latest release.

Unzip the Carbon module anywhere on your file system. Import the module by running:

		> Import-Module Path\To\Carbon\Directory

Replace Path\To\Carbon\Directory with the actual path where you unzipped Carbon.

If you don't want to worry about remembering/finding the path to Carbon, put the Carbon directory into one of the following directories:

$PSHOME\Modules
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

Usage

If you've installed Carbon into a standard PowerShell module directory (see above), importing it is easy:

		> Import-Module Carbon

If you've got it installed somewhere else, maybe your application's version control repository, you'll need to know the path to where it is:

		> Import-Module .\Tools\Carbon

If importing Carbon in a script, we recommend always using relative paths. You can get the directory in which the current script is executing, and using that to get the path to Carbon, like this:

		> $PSScriptRoot = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
		> Import-Module (Join-Path $PSScriptRoot ..\Tools\Carbon -Resolve)

For more usage information, see the Carbon help topic:

		> help Carbon

To get a list of all commands imported by Carbon,

		> Get-Command | Where-Object { $_.ModuleName -eq 'Carbon' }