Using DSC and built-in resources

This recipe shows you how to use DSC in push mode. With this mode, you create a configuration document on one system—in this case SRV1—and push the configuration to the target node (SRV2). You can also use DSC in pull mode, which you look at in greater detail in the Implementing an SMB DSC pull server and Implementing a web-based DSC pull server recipes.

With pull mode, you create a configuration definition and execute it to produce a MOF file. In this recipe, you use the built-in File resource to specify the files that should be on the target node (and where to find them if they are not).

Getting ready

In this recipe, you examine the Windows Server 2019 built-in resources and use these to create and compile a configuration statement on server SRV1. You use this configuration statement to then deploy the Web-Server feature on a second server, SRV2.

This recipe relies on two files being created and shared from DC1. The two files are Index.Htm and Page2.Htm. These...