BizTalk Server Team Blog

BizTalk Server is Microsoft's integration and connectivity server and is one of the most deployed integration servers in the industry. BizTalk Server 2010 was released just over a year ago. Today we are happy to share details on what customers can expect...

My team has been working on a set of technical BizTalk Server 2006 posters that are finally ready and available for download. Hey, we had to have been doing something while we weren’t blogging. :^) Be that as it may, the first in the series is a capabilities...

I often get request for pointers to training materials for people who are new to BizTalk and figure it's high time we provided a straight forward learning path. I'm going to maintain this post to provide a recommended training roadmap for beginners. Let...

[Update 21/10/2010: Made changes to the article to reflect the changes in branding and features post RTM] In the recently released BizTalk Server 2010 , we introduced a new feature of BizTalk called "AppFabric Connect”, which allows users to...

BizTalk Server 2010 has been released to manufacturing and will be available for purchase starting October 1 st , 2010. The evaluation and free Developer editions are now available for download from the BizTalk Server website . BizTalk Server 2010...

What’s next for BizTalk?  As excited as we are about the recent announcement that we shipped BizTalk Server 2010 ( see blog post ), we know that customers depend upon us to give them visibility into the longer-term roadmap; given the lifespan of...

We are super excited to announce the Beta release of BizTalk Server 2013 (yes, this is a major release). We announced our CTP in August and since then we have added a bunch of really cool capabilities, including SFTP support, ESBT integration, better...

One of the key requirements in development of cloud based applications is to be able to leverage existing on-premise assets by exposing them as web services. However, since most of the organizations are firewall protected, the on-premise web services...

The current mapper was an award winning tool when it was released. But lately we have been hearing from our customers that although mapper is great for simple maps, they are finding it increasingly difficult to develop and maintain maps with the BizTalk...

Our training partner Quicklearn is announcing the availability of new online training on BizTalk Server 2010 . This is a series of self-paced online training courses that include hand-on lab experience and instructor support. It really allows you to take...

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a module in BizTalk that captures business data and process milestones to allows business decision makers to gain insight of their in-flight processes.  Using BI tools to derive up-to-date metrics and key performance...

We have been getting very positive feedback so far on the posters. Here is the latest news on this project: A new poster on Scale-Out Configurations for BizTalk has been created. W e have also just released the updated versions of the Capabilities...

It’s been about 10 days since we have launched the Beta version of BizTalk Server 2010 together with the Windows Server AppFabric RC. The virtual launch site includes a 4 new videos of recorded demos that you can get access to only if you pick the BizTalk...

In case you have missed it, about two weeks ago a few members of the BizTalk Server and the SQL Server Customer Advisory Teams (CAT) have released to Codeplex, a vey useful BizTalk performance benchmarking tool. The BizTalk Benchmark Wizard checks the...

As you may or may not have heard, a WCF adapter will be included in BizTalk Server 2006 R2! It won't actually be a single adapter, but instead there will be multiple adapters with each one exposing one of the bindings that are included in WCF. Each adapter...

We are excited to announce that BizTalk Server 2013 is now “Released to Manufacturing” (RTM)! BizTalk Server 2013 will be available for download on MSDN starting today. The English locale SKUs will be available for purchase starting April...

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of the BizTalk Server 2010 Beta, which will RTM in the third quarter of calendar year 2010. BizTalk Server 2010 aligns with the latest Microsoft platform releases, including SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server...

We are very excited to welcome the public Beta release of BizTalk Server 2010. We have some very interesting enhancements in B2B space in this release. I want to share a brief around the Trading Partner Management feature. Trading Partner Management(TPM...

Some of our customers have experienced problems while developing BizTalk projects that references other BizTalk projects. This problem occurs because the project reference is lost intermittently when developing a BizTalk project in Visual Studio. We have...

BizTalk Server team is excited to announce the availability of updated schemas and runtime to support HIPAA 5010 Errata in BizTalk Server 2009. The update is available as part of BizTalk Server 2009 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) package. The following...

Consider the following scenario: There is an adapter on a Receive Location, which submits a message in Format A into BizTalk. The Pipeline configured on this Receive Location converts the message into Format B. Assume that there is no map configured on...

In the blog posts 1 & 2 , we went over how a Workflow application can pass credentials to the LOB activities. While the mechanisms suggested work when the credentials originate from the application in question, a different approach is required when...

Some of customers who have migrated for the old Sap Adapter (BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite) to WCF-SAP adapter (comes with BizTalk Adapter Pack), have come back saying that there are some differences in behavior of the old SAP adapter and...

We will be announcing the public Beta of BizTalk Server 2010 at the Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch tomorrow (Thursday, May 20 th , 2010 at 8:30 AM PST) with planned RTM in Q3 of 2010. BizTalk Server 2010 aligns with the latest Microsoft...