Get Started with Service Provisioning
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Get Started with Service Provisioning
This section provides information about tasks, options, configurations, and requirements for deploying Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) in your Hosted Messaging and Collaboration environment. For Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.0 , you must use MPS as your service provisioning facility because Hosted Exchange services rely upon MPS.
The options you will choose to deploy MPS in your hosting environment depend upon one or more of the following factors:
- Your experience level as an MPS user.
- The deployment scenario that best accommodates your environment (see Choose MPS Deployment Options).
- The provisioning implementations you want in your environment (see Evaluate Provisioning Implementations).
- The Provision Hosted Services for which you want to provide provisioning facilities.
Your assessment of these factors should help you determine which of the following suggested configurations is suitable for your MPS deployment:
- Minimal Service Provisioning Environment - Users who are new to MPS are advised to deploy this configuration.
- Fault Tolerant Service Provisioning Environmrent - Users who are experienced with MPS can deploy this configuration.
Note
Before you deploy MPS in a production environment, you should first deploy it in a test environment as described in Create an MPS Test Configuration.
For more information, see:
- Deployment Walkthrough for an overall view of the network architecture of the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.0 .
- Build Service Provisioning to learn how to build your Microsoft Provisioning System.
- MPS Deployment Tool to learn more about using this tool in your environment.
- Microsoft Provisioning System SDK to learn how to set up a development environment for the Microsoft Provisioning System.
- Provision Hosted Services to learn how to use MPS to provision Hosted Exchange, Exchange Mobility, Customer Directory Integration (CDI), and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.