You can create SMB shares for use with DSC pull servers either inside the DSC configuration script using the xSMBShare DSC resource, ahead of time using native Windows tooling or PowerShell cmdlets, or with existing SMB shares that you already have.
If you choose to use an HTTPS DSC pull server, you can skip this step.
Since the release of the first edition of this book, the documentation for setting up SMB shares has greatly improved, and you can create and provision the shares inside the DSC configuration script itself, just like the HTTPS SSL certificates. We'll look at how to do this in the SMB DSC pull server example.