Desired State Configuration Setup
Microsoft's Desired State Configuration is their own Windows configuration tool. It runs from a PowerShell in Admin mode and can install and configure software and machine state, putting the machine into the desired state, hence the name.I do have an Ansible alternative for Linux boxes, or WSL running on Windows.
For detail information on DSC see the dsc_machine_setup.md (
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DSC Resources
To make life easy, here is a tarball of all of the required files including configuration files and other resources (see below) which you need, machine_setup.tar. IMPORTANT. As part of the machine setup, the Ansible script will attempt to put mylsetup utility in place, this is a script which enhances your workflow
by allowing you to group a number of tasks you do regularly with a simple command option, so you can for example startup all of your daily
work apps with a single call rather than having to continually click loads of applications. You will need to download these files for the machine setup
to complete without errors. It looks for these files in the machine_setup directory which is where you have put all of the above files.
See 
for these resources, these are included in the resources tarball machine_setup.tar.
The following is NOT yet valid, and is related to Ansible not DSC
- Individual Ansible Scripts
- machine_setup_ansible.yml - My machine level setup Ansible script ()
- machine_setup_ansible_wsl.yml - My machine level for WSL setup Ansible script ()
- work_setup_ansible.yml - My work level setup Ansible script ()
- work_setup_ansible_wsl.yml - My work level for WSL setup Ansible script ()
- additional_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My additional apps level setup Ansible script ()
- entertainment_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My Entertainment apps level setup Ansible script ()
- wine_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My Wine apps level setup Ansible script ()
- wserver_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My WebServer level setup Ansible script ()
NOTE: The files above have directory paths with relative or absolute links which work for me but you will have to change the paths for however you prefer to setup your infrastructure.