This section describes advanced concepts and more complex configurations that generally apply to experienced Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) users. However, new MPS users should also review these topics for a better understanding of MPS, especially the minimal service provisioning configuration.

Choose the appropriate link for the advanced topic you want to review:

• See Minimal Service Provisioning Environment to evaluate the components of the quick-start service provisioning configuration, which utilizes MPS to provision Hosted Exchange and Hosted Windows SharePoint Services.
  
• See Fault Tolerant Service Provisioning Environment to evaluate the components of the enhanced service provisioning configuration, which utilizes MPS to provision Hosted Exchange, Hosted Mobile Messaging, DNS, Customer Directory Integration (CDI), and Hosted Windows SharePoint Services. The advanced service provisioning configuration also includes a high availability MPS configuration with fault tolerance and load balancing.
  
• See Fault Tolerant Service Provisioning Environment to implement a fault tolerant and load-balanced MPS configuration for high availability.
  

  Note:
  Only attempt to utilize the fault tolerant and load-balanced configuration if you are an experienced MPS user and you are implementing the advanced MPS configuration.

• See MPS Deployment Tool to understand more about the MPS Deployment Tool and the background installation and configuration processes that it implements.
  
• See Microsoft Provisioning System Security to learn about the advanced security features of MPS and how to plan for them.