DSC resources for for configuration of a Windows computer. These DSC resources allow you to perform computer management tasks, such as renaming the computer, joining a domain and scheduling tasks as well as configuring items such as virtual memory, event logs, time zones and power settings.
The Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows Server 2016 Azure DevOps pipeline hosted images will be deprecated:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/hosted-pipelines-image-deprecation/
The pipeline stages need to be migrated to newer versions.