The MPS Deployment Tool provides the following details tabs and other user interface elements to facilitate the configuration and deployment of Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) components:

• Getting Started tab -Provides initial tool guidance by summarizing the basic tasks you can perform with the tool.
  
• Install Details tab - Provides information about tool processes.
  
• Servers tab - Contains controls for configuring which servers you assign as location sites for MPS component installations.
  
• Session History tab - Provides an interface for monitoring the activities of tool sessions.
  
• Action History tab - Aggregates a session-to-session log of actions completed by the tool for the lifetime of the deployment.
  
• File menu - Contains the following commands:
  
  • Location - Enables you to specify the location of your configuration files, log files, Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) applications, and MPS component source files.
    
  • Export Configuration - Enables you to export the MpsConfig.xml file to an alternate location.
    
  • Save Installed Configuration - Captures the configuration settings for all components that are currently installed and overwrites any previously saved configuration.
    
  • Restore Installed Configuration - Uses the saved configuration to schedule installations for all previously installed components that are not currently installed.
    
  • Deployment Files Status - Provides status information for deployment related files. For example, ItemID:MPFClient Deployment File:MPF.msi file exists:Yes.
    
  • Pending Actions - Displays an Action dialog that lists pending actions such as Install, Upgrade, Repair, Verify, or Configure, for deployment components.
    
  • Preferences - Displays the MSI Logging dialog to allow selection of one or more of the following logging options:
    
    • Status messages
      
    • Nonfatal warnings
      
    • All error messages
      
    • Start up of actions
      
    • Action specific records
      
    • User requests
      
    • Initial UI parameters
      
    • Fatal exit information
      
    • Out-of-disk space messages
      
    • Terminal properties
      
    • Verbose output
      
• Help menu - Contains the following commands:
  
  • Help - To be provided in a future release of the MPS Deployment Tool.
    
  • Tree Icon Help - Provides definitions of the icons used in the Requirements Status tree.
    
• Requirements Status pane - Provides a tree-style view of MPS components that you can configure and deploy in your hosting environment.
  
• Start Deployment button - Launches the deployment process.