Reference documents have been recently published by Microsoft to provide examples, how-to details, and technical guidelines for model-based configuration management.

These technical reference guides and step-by-step best-practices documents are based on Service Modeling Language (SML), the work-in-progress standards-based (XML) language model-based configuration management.

The documents include:

• Authoring Service Modeling Language (SML) Models for Capturing and Validating Best Practices Step-by-Step Guide
  A walk-through guide that uses real-world examples to demonstrate model creation, configuration, and validation; one example given is the content construction of a model (document) for an antivirus software application.
  
  DIRECT URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb741062.aspx
   
• Service Modeling Language Technical Reference (download document)
  An overview of the SML language, rules, and overall architecture as it relates to declarative discovery (a first component in the validation process) functions.
   
  DIRECT URL: http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93d200c2-501f-4e61-8eff-faa437393257&displaylang=en 

More to come on these guides....

- mark
 

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