Fully Automated Modeling

You can check in a component from a gold server or source code control system, have the provisioning software automatically generate a component model, and then use the component model for installation, configuration, and comparison procedures. You can do all this without ever viewing or editing the XML contents of the component model yourself.

We recommend this approach for modeling components in the Windows environment. The provisioning software's built-in resource types can be used to automatically model the most common resources that make up Windows application components. The resource type templates even include built-in procedures for basic operations such as installations, so that you can perform basic operations on common types of resources without even writing a plan.

For a complete list of resource types, see Built-in Components Types.