Service provisioning relies on the Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) to automate routine administrative server management tasks such as adding new users, updating directory entries, and provisioning applications and services. By automating provisioning activities, you can lower development costs.

This section contains procedures to deploy service provisioning in your hosting infrastructure. It also includes installation tasks that you should perform prior to building your provisioning environment with the MPS Deployment Tool.

Windows-based Hosting MPS Servers

The following table lists the set of servers that make up the Windows-based Hosting MPS servers.

Table: Provisioning Servers for Windows-based Hosting