Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a new configuration-management platform from Microsoft, built as an extension to PowerShell. DSC was originally launched as part of Windows Management Framework (WMF) 4.0. It's available as part of WMF 4.0 and 5.0 for all Windows Server operating systems before Windows 2008 R2. WMF 5.1 is available out of the box on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.