Size does matter!
Well, it does to WinRM. That is what I learned today. I have been using DSC to provision SQL Server instances for over a year now and never before had I encountered this particular error: The WinRM client sent a request to the remote WS-Management service and was notified that the request size exceeded the configured MaxEnvelopeSize quota. + CategoryInfo : LimitsExceeded: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80338111 + PSComputerName : ************** Naturally, I googled and the solution is rather simple. Just check what the winrm setting is for the target machine and increase the size. winrm g winrm/config winrm set winrm/config @{MaxEnvelopeSizekb="8192"} What was interesting though is why this was the first time I was getting the error?? It turns out that the MOF files I was sending to the server were slight...