Deploying a DSC web-based pull server is more complex than deploying an SMB pull server. The SMB-based pull server is simple: just create a couple of shares and place the relevant files on that share. The web server approach requires you to also load IIS, install the DSC service, and configure the service, as well as placing the MOF files, resources, and any relevant checksums on the web server. Of course, in both cases, you need to configure each node's LCM.
You deploy a web based pull server to provide a pull client with both resources and configuration MOF files. Unlike an SMB-based pull server, a web-based pull server also provides reporting capabilities enabling a pull client to report status back to the reporting server. Reporting is not available using an SMB-based pull server.
To simplify the creation of a web-based DSC pull...
