Microsoft® Provisioning Framework (MPF) supports the following
user roles and tasks.
| Roles |
Tasks |
| Service provider who uses MPF for subscriber provisioning |
- Writing named procedures that
provision users with accounts, mailboxes, and other services.
- Allocating users to resources.
- Monitoring and optimizing resource consumption.
|
| Data center administrator who uses MPF for data center
provisioning |
|
| Developer who creates a service offering |
- Writing procedures that describe sets of provisioning steps and
the data to be provisioned. A procedure can call multiple providers.
- Developing
custom providers and to integrate other applications with
MPF.
- Registering
new procedures and providers in the configuration
database.
- and debugging
providers and procedures.
- Creating Web forms that collect user data for provisioning
requests and send success and error responses.
|
| Developer for an independent software vendor (ISV) that wants
to provision a product as a subscription service |
- Developing custom providers to integrate other applications
with MPF.
- Testing and debugging providers and procedures.
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