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View Provisioning Manager Components
View the configuration database location
View the names and status of provisioning servers
View the properties of provisioning server components
View namespaces and procedures
View the properties of a namespace or procedure
View credentials
Manage Provisioning Servers
Activate or deactivate a provisioning engine
Activate, deactivate, start, or stop the Provisioning Queue Manager service on a server
Start or stop the Provisioning Auditing and Recovery service on a server
Activate or deactivate a transaction log
Change How Provisioning Servers Handle Requests and Transactions
Change How Provisioning Servers Handle Client Connections
Change the authentication level for client connections
Change the exclusion interval for unresponsive components
Change the cloaking capabilities for client connections
Change the connection hold time for unused connections
Change the impersonation level authorized for clients
Change the number of server connections available for clients
Change the target account for delegation
Change How Provisioning Engines Process Transactions
Grant permission to submit requests to provisioning engines
Change the audit level for provisioning engines
Enable or disable schema validation for provisioning engines
Change the transaction log pool size for provisioning engines
Change the time-out period for connecting to a transaction log server
Change How Queue Managers Handle Requests
Grant permission to submit requests to queue managers
Change the maximum number of queued requests for each server
Change the number of threads used to process queued requests
Change the wait time between stability thread checks for queued requests
Change the transaction log pool size for queued requests
Change How Auditing and Recovery Managers Handle Transactions
Change the maximum delay between bad command checks
Change the maximum time to keep a bad command
Change the maximum delay between MoveToAudit procedures
Change the maximum duration of a MoveToAudit procedure
Change the maximum duration of a queue clean-up procedure
Change the maximum time to keep a queue status record
Manage Namespaces and Procedures
Add Namespaces
Create a namespace
Import a namespace
View or Modify Namespaces
View the name of a namespace
View or change the provider source for a namespace
View or modify the description of a namespace
View or modify the XML used to implement a namespace
View or modify permissions to execute all procedures of a namespace
View or Modify Procedures
View or modify the name of a procedure
View or modify the access type of a procedure
View or modify the request type of a procedure
View or modify the credentials used to execute a procedure
Activate or deactivate auditing for a procedure
Activate or deactivate automatic generation of performance counters for a procedure
Activate or deactivate the saving of data for rollback of a procedure
View or modify the description of a procedure
View or modify the XML used to implement a procedure
View or modify permissions to execute a procedure
Export the XML of a namespace
Add a procedure to a namespace
Delete a procedure from a namespace
Delete a namespace
Manage Credentials
Add a credential
Delete a credential
Set the password for a credential
Change the configuration database to which Microsoft Provisioning Framework connects
Concepts
Provisioning Manager Overview
Provisioning
Microsoft Provisioning Framework components
Transaction processing
Error handling
Understanding Provisioning Manager
Microsoft Provisioning Framework capabilities
Configuration database
Provisioning Manager Components
Provisioning Servers
Clients
Provisioning engines
Queue managers
Auditing and recovery managers
Transaction logs
Audit log
Namespaces
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
Other namespaces
Procedures
Credentials
Using Provisioning Manager
Administering Provisioning Components Using Provisioning Manager
Administering Provisioning Servers
Administering clients
Administering provisioning engines
Administering queue managers
Administering auditing and recovery managers
Administering transaction logs
Administering the audit log
Administering Namespaces and Procedures
Maintaining and updating namespaces and procedures
Implementing custom providers and namespaces
Administering credentials
Administering the configuration database
Submitting requests
Managing security
Managing resources
Managing performance
Managing Microsoft Provisioning Framework from the command line
Resources
Microsoft Provisioning Framework SDK
Additional provisioning resources
Troubleshooting
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