Welcome to the MPS Deployment Tool for the Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5. This section provides conceptual information about the Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) Deployment Tool and how you can use it to deploy and configure provisioning components in your hosted services environment.

Deployment procedures that utilize the MPS Deployment Tool are found in the Deployment Walkthrough documentation for the solution.

• To perform the deployment of MPS provisioning components, see: Deploy MPS or Deploy MPS for deployment procedures that utilize the MPS Deployment Tool.
  
• To obtain additional related information, see: Get Started with Service Provisioning to learn about MPS and the provisioning components that you can install and configure with the MPS Deployment Tool.