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
            }
        }
    }