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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