Shaun A Cox

US Patent:

20110307587, Dec 15, 2011

Filed:

Jun 14, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/814570

Inventors:

Serkan Kutan - New York NY, US
Shaun Cox - Redmond WA, US
Erdinc Basci - Redmond WA, US
Vadim Eydelman - Bellevue WA, US
Bimal Mehta - Sammamish WA, US
Nirav A. Kamdar - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/177

US Classification:

709222

Abstract:

A platform for manipulating data associated with defining, deploying, and administering distributed server systems utilizes a structured data model with a flexible replication mechanism, a set of schemas, and an object model to manipulate system topology, configuration (settings), and policies. A scoping mechanism for characteristics of the settings, policies, and resolution is provided in addition to the data model along with an authorization mechanism for single and multi-tenant environments.