BOOTSTRAP Configuration Service Provider

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The BOOTSTRAP Configuration Service Provider sets the Trusted Provisioning Server (TPS) for the device.

Note   This Configuration Service Provider is managed over the OMA Client Provisioning (formerly WAP) protocol.

Note   Access to this Configuration Service Provider is determined by Security roles. Because OEMs and Mobile Operators can selectively disallow access, ask them about the availability of this Configuration Service Provider. For more information about roles, see Security Roles and Default Roles for Configuration Service Providers.

The following image shows the Configuration Service Provider in tree format as used by OMA Client Provisioning.

Characteristics

  • BOOTSTRAP
    This Root-level characteristic must be present to set the Trusted Provisioning Server (TPS) for the device.

    The following table shows the default settings.

    Permissions Read/write
    Roles allowed to query and update setting Manager

    Operator

    Operator TPS

Parameters

  • CONTEXT-ALLOW
    Only one context is supported. This parm is ignored and 0 is assumed for its value.

  • NAME
    A string that identifies the friendly server name. If this parm is missing, the default is "Trust WAP Config Server". This parm is used in the root BOOTSTRAP characteristic.

  • PROVURL
    Identifies the location of a Trusted Provisioning Server (TPS). This must be a complete URL, starting with "https://", "https://", "wsp://", or "wsps://". The length of the value of PROVURL ** must be equal to or smaller than 256 characters. This is a mandatory parm.

    This parm is used in the root BOOTSTRAP characteristic.

  • PROXY-ID
    Identifies a proxy that is available with this bootstrap information. If this parm is present, a browser favorite will be added, whose URL is the PROVURL parm, and whose name is the NAME parm. If the URL has a scheme of "http" or "https", it will be converted to "wsp" or "wsps", respectively.

    This parm is used in the root BOOTSTRAP characteristic.

Microsoft Custom Elements

The following table shows the Microsoft custom elements that this Configuration Service Provider supports for OMA Client Provisioning.

Elements Available
parm-query No
noparm No
nocharacteristic No
characteristic-query No

Use these elements to build standard OMA Client Provisioning (formerly WAP) configuration XML. For information about specific elements, see MSPROV DTD Elements. For examples of how to generally use the Microsoft custom elements, see Provisioning XML File Examples.

For information about OMA Client Provisioning, see OMA Client Provisioning Files.

See Also

Configuration Service Provider Reference for Windows Mobile-Based Devices | BOOTSTRAP Configuration Service Provider Examples for OMA Client Provisioning | BOOTSTRAP | Bootstrapping To Use an OMA Client Provisioning Server

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