Providers

SAM account objects such as User and Group objects.

Local security policy objects.

File and printer shares.

Service manager objects.

General computer property information such as name, IP address, domain membership, and disk information.

Creates, deletes, moves, renames, and gets or sets properties of Active Directory objects.

Modifies passwords, access control lists (ACLs), group memberships, and so on.

Create, modify, pause, resume, reload, refresh, and delete zones.

Establish zone delegations and rescind them.

Build zone files.

Add, examine, and remove resource records (RRs) and other pertinent data.

Returning permissions collections for a SharePoint site.

Adding, modifying, or removing permissions to a list for a specified collection of existing users, site groups, and cross-site groups.

Creating and deleting sites.

Returning properties of a collection of sites.

Returning information about files and folders within a folder on a SharePoint site.

Gathering information about memberships in sites, subsites, cross-site groups, and groups.

Adding a site or cross-site group to a SharePoint site.

Adding one or more user accounts to a specified cross-site group.

Removing specified users from the current site or current site collection.

Returning information about the collection of users for the current site.

Updating information for a specified user.

Returning the URLs of sites and subsites.

Returning the URL of the parent site for the specified page URL.

Adding a SQL user account to the database server.

Adding a user to a database role.

Backing up a database to a file.

Changing the password for a SQL user.

Creating a database on a SQL server.

Deleting a database from a SQL server.

Removing a SQL user account from the database server.

Allowing a user to access a database.

Adding a Microsoft Windows NT/Windows 2003 Server account to the database server.

Listing all of the databases on a particular server.

Listing information about a backup file.

Modifying a database file (data or log) on a SQL Server.

Removing a user from a database role.

Restoring a database from a file.

Removing a user's ability to access a database.

Removing a Windows NT/Windows 2003 Server account from the database server.

Setting the password for a SQL user.

Delete an IIS path object.

Create a Web site.

Create an FTP site.

Set properties that control the running status of a Web site, FTP site, Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), or Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) service.

Create a virtual directory for a Web or FTP site.

Create an application pool.

Enabling or disabling authoring and administration from the FrontPage client.

Installing FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 on the specified port of a virtual server and creating a sub-Web with the provided name.

Creating, setting, or deleting FrontPage properties.

Creating and managing user roles.

Setting FrontPage user rights.

Adding or deleting users from a FrontPage Web site and importing files to a Web site.

SQL — Passes Structured Query Language (SQL) and Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) commands to an OLE DB Provider on a database server, initiated by the ExecSQL procedure of the SQL Provider low-level namespace.

Scripting — Enables you to run scripts on the local computer where provisioning requests are executed. Supports the use of VBScript and Microsoft JScript code.

SOAP ISAPI — Enables you to submit requests into MPS through the SOAP ISAPI, which is a filter for the MPF client. Supports communication between data centers for remote requests submitted over the Internet.

Core RMO — Implements all Resource Manager functions except those based on fixed-block allocation, which is implemented by the BlockModelRMO namespace.

File System — Automates common file system tasks involving files, directories, and shares. Includes tasks such as moving, copying, and deleting files.

Windows Registry — Allows you to update, query, and enumerate the registry keys and values on a local or remote computer.

Windows Installer — Installs or uninstalls a Microsoft Windows Installer package file (.msi) associated with a provisioning request.

Error— Allows you to write specific errors and send them to the Microsoft Windows application Event log, send them to MPF for returning them to the calling procedure, or to translate errors into more meaningful messages that are returned to the user.