This section provides the details of the application programming interface (API) for the Managed Web Hosting namespace included with the Microsoft® Provisioning System (MPS) in the . It describes the methods of this namespace along with input parameters and return values. In addition, example Extensible Markup Language (XML) requests are provided along with a typical XML response that the provisioning system returns after a request is submitted to MPS and tasks are completed.

Developers can use this API document as a reference when creating XML requests that initiate the provisioning of hosted Web services.

The Managed Web Hosting namespace is a new namespace that provides a select set of MPF methods for the provisioning of customer Web sites using MPS, in both shared and dedicated scenarios. This namespace enhances the low-level Internet Information Services (IIS) provider by integrating several aspects of hosted Web site provisioning, which includes:

• File directories for Web content.
• File directories for log files.
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP) virtual directory for content management and access to log files.
• Microsoft FrontPage® extensions.
• Anonymous user creation.
• Application pool creation (IIS 6.0).
• File and directory permissions.

The Managed Web Hosting namespace is designed to provide business logic for the creation of Web sites, directories, FTP virtual directories, and the application of permissions. However, this namespace does not implement any plans or resource management logic because these are provided by other namespaces. This facilitates scenarios where built-in plans and resource management are not needed by the service provider.

Applies To

Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5 Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.0 Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5 Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.0 Windows-based Hosting version 4.5 Windows-based Hosting version 4.0 Windows-based Hosting version 3.5 Windows-based Hosting for Applications version 1.0