Zero Touch Provisioning Deployment Feature Team Guide

ZTP is the implementation of actions, workflows, and operations required to enable users to self-subscribe to services and software. ZTP is designed to deliver those services with minimal human interaction to reduce the likelihood of costly errors and administration overhead. The vision of ZTP is to develop a reliable, scalable, secure, and manageable enterprise self-service provisioning framework that customers and partners can easily extend with additional services.

The framework that was developed for ZTP was built on BizTalk Server 2004 to leverage the functionality that Human Workflow Services provide as well as the integration capabilities that are native in BizTalk Server. This allows for a robust provisioning system that can extend to provision countless other services and enable customization to meet businesses requirements.

For more information about the various components in ZTP, see the Zero Touch Provisioning Reference Architecture. For more information about customizing ZTP, see the Zero Touch Provisioning Developer Guide.

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	Background
	Prerequisites
	Assumptions

Background

The tasks this guide describes typically begin in the MSF Planning phase. The work continues through the Developing and Stabilizing phases, during which ZTP is installed, configured, tested, and then approved for release to the Deploying phase.

The primary consumer of this guide is the MSF Development Role Cluster because most of this document focuses on the development work needed to install and configure ZTP.

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Prerequisites

The following products and downloads are required to configure a server for ZTP:

The following products and downloads are optional for configuring a server for ZTP:

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Assumptions

This guide makes the following assumptions:

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