M365DSC Export does not export config data in a portable way

[raandree]

M365DSC exports data as a .ps1 script. That does not scale and does not allow converting the data to JSON or YAML.

There is a promising MOF Parser but this parser cannot handle complex data types. An issue is open: mikeclayton/Kingsland.MofParser#83.

The most promising way is to rewrite the M365DSC export routing to get data and not PowerShell code.

[ricmestre]

You can always use ConvertTo-DSCObject from DSCParser applied to the exported blueprint and then convert the object to JSON, there's also ConvertFrom-DSCObject that does the reverse.

[raandree]

Thanks for he hint, @ricmestre. I have tried that with a very simple configuration generated with a Microsoft365DSC export. I have used this command:

ConvertTo-DSCObject -Path .\M365TenantConfig.ps1

The result was not very useful. Am I using the command in the wrong way?

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