Carbon is a DevOps PowerShell module for automating the configuration of Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, 7, 2012, and 2012 R2 computers. Carbon can configure and manage:
And much more!
Carbon's automated test suite runs in the following environment:
But it should support PowerShell 2 and 3 running under .NET 3.5/4/4.5 on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2 and Windows 7/8/8.1
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Unblock the .zip file (right-click it, choose "Properties", click "Unblock", then click "OK").
Unzip the Carbon module anywhere on your file system. Import the module by running the Import-Carbon.ps script:
> & 'Path\To\Carbon\Directory\Import-Carbon.ps1'
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:
Join-Path -Path $PSHOME -ChildPath Modules
Join-Path -Path $env:USERPROFILE -ChildPath Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
Then, you can simply
> Import-Module Carbon
If importing Carbon in a script, we recommend always using relative paths to create a full path to Import-Carbon.ps1. This makes your scripts portable. You can get the directory in which the current script is executing, and use that to get the path to Carbon, like this:
# You only need this line for PowerShell 2:
$PSScriptRoot = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
& (Join-Path -Path $PSScriptRoot -ChildPath ..\Tools\Carbon\Import-Carbon.ps1 -Resolve)
To get a list of all commands imported by Carbon:
> Get-Command | Where-Object { $_.ModuleName -eq 'Carbon' }