Namespaces provide the core functionality for provisioning services and resources. Namespaces consist of one or more procedures that implement specific functionality.

• Provider namespaces-Provider namespaces implement the functionality required to maintain and manage provisioning services using a specific underlying provider, such as Active Directory, Internet Information Services (IIS), or Exchange.
• Other standard and custom namespaces-Some namespaces do not call a provider, but call other procedures. Namespaces of this type include the standard namespaces provided with MPF, such as the Sample Namespace, and the other namespaces that are included in the Microsoft Provisioning System, such as the Managed Active Directory namespace.

  The provider namespaces and other standard namespaces that are installed by default with MPF include the following:

  • Active Directory Provider
  • BlockModelRMO
  • Command Line Provider
  • CoreRMO
  • Custom Audit
  • Error Provider
  • File System Provider
  • HTTP and SOAP Provider
  • Preferred DC Active Directory Provider
  • Registry Provider
  • Sample Namespace
  • Scripting Provider
  • SQL Provider
  • Test Namespace
  • Windows Installer Provider

  For more information on MPF namespaces, see Namespaces in Provisioning Manager Help and Providers and Namespaces. For a complete list of all namespaces and providers available with MPS, see the MPS SDK Reference