Who Uses MPF?

Who Uses MPF?

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

Deploying and monitoring MPF components.

Writing procedures that install and configure applications, servers, routers, storage devices, and other system components.

Monitoring warning and error events.

Monitoring and optimizing resource consumption.

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 namespaces to integrate other applications with MPF.

Registering new procedures and providers in the configuration database.

Testing 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.

See Also

What is MPF?, What is Provisioning?

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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	Deploying and monitoring MPF components. Writing procedures that install and configure applications, servers, routers, storage devices, and other system components. Monitoring warning and error events. Monitoring and optimizing resource consumption.
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 namespaces to integrate other applications with MPF. Registering new procedures and providers in the configuration database. Testing 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.