DSC status from a central location

This is very much an experimental feature, but it is an important one in viewing DSC as an entire replacement of existing products in this space, such as Puppet or Chef. As of DSC v4, there is no way to report the status of configurations centrally or at a granular level. Terse information describes the current state, with very little information on what went wrong or right. Information is available on a per-pull server basis.

In DSC V5, this information is improved with more detail and can be forwarded to a central DSC pull server. High-level status can be sent to a central server running the DSC service, which is then stored in a database. A new OData endpoint is created when the DSC service is installed, which exposes the information stored and can be queried by any tool able to make HTTP calls.