en-US/about_SPAuthenticationRealm.help.txt

.NAME
    SPAuthenticationRealm
 
# Description
     
    **Type:** Distributed
    **Requires CredSSP:** No
     
    This resource is used to set the authentication realm for a farm.
    By default the authentication realm for a new farm installation
    is the same as the farm id.
     
    Note:
     
    SharePoint automatically converts the realm to lower case ASCII printable characters.
    The specified authentication realm must therefore conform to this for the test
    method to be able to detect a correct configuration.
 
.PARAMETER IsSingleInstance
    Key - String
    Allowed values: Yes
    Specifies the resource is a single instance, the value must be 'Yes'
 
.PARAMETER AuthenticationRealm
    Required - String
    The authentication realm to be set
 
.PARAMETER InstallAccount
    Write - String
    POWERSHELL 4 ONLY: The account to run this resource as, use PsDscRunAsCredential if using PowerShell 5
 
.EXAMPLE 1
 
This example sets the farm atuhentication realm.
 
    Configuration Example
    {
        param(
            [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
            [PSCredential]
            $SetupAccount
        )
        Import-DscResource -ModuleName SharePointDsc
 
        node localhost {
            SPAuthenticationRealm AuthenticationRealm
            {
                IsSingleInstance = "Yes"
                AuthenticationRealm = "14757a87-4d74-4323-83b9-fb1e77e8f22f"
                PsDscRunAsCredential = $SetupAccount
            }
        }
    }