How to find existing Windows features for Desired State Configuration (DSC)?

Using Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) is the preferred way to configure a Windows Server. The only problem when starting with DSC is, to find out the names of the build in configuration entries, in special the Windows Features.

To get help with that you can use:

Get-DscResource

This will show a list with the build in DSC Resources:

Get-DscResource Result

Get-DscResource Result

To find out more about the Windows Feature type:

Get-WindowsFeature