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