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Host Throttling
More sophisticated engine throttling in BizTalk Server 2006 prevents unrecoverable situations from occurring by closely monitoring many facets of the BizTalk runtime and adjusting processing accordingly. Plus, easily configurable throttling parameters exist on the host level allowing for tuning at the appropriate level of granularity. |
Core Engine |
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Admin MMC Console
Our MMC console is now a one-stop-shop for all things “administration”. Hub pages provide high level dashboard summaries of the health of your group but also allow for more detailed drilldowns and diagnosis. The console has advanced querying capabilities, bulk terminates and resubmissions, and easy message viewing, for starters. |
Administration |
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Application concept
Introducing the strict notion of an application container allows for a much more intuitive experience with the BizTalk product and one that is consistent across developer and IT Pro roles. When you package all the necessary artifacts into an application container, you can then manage that application selectively. Now administrators can deploy, start, stop, manage, and troubleshoot at the application level with just a few mouse clicks. |
Deployment |
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New platform support
BizTalk Server 2006 has support for Virtual Server 2005, the x64 platform, SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, as well as Visual Studio .NET 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0, allowing you to leverage all of the latest Microsoft technologies. |
Platform |
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Improved Setup and Config
Performing a single box buildout or a complicated multi-machine topology has never been easier with the streamlined setup and configuration processes in BizTalk Server 2006. A pre-requisite checker, a seamless upgrade path from BTS 2004 to BTS 2006, and prescriptive multi-box buildout and upgrade guides are just some of the additions contributing to this area of the product. |
Setup |
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New Adapters
We now include many more adapters in the box at no extra cost including SAP, MSMQ, MQSeries, POP3, WSS, and many more as part of our Enterprise Application Adapters suite. More Information |
Adapters |
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Operator Role
This new role allows users to administer their BizTalk group without being able to view potentially sensitive message content or promoted properties - a regulatory requirement for some lucky companies. |
Administration |
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Routing of failed messages
This feature allows you to optionally subscribe to suspension events that occur in the message engine and handle them. Logging of malformed partner documents or creating email alerts for failures are just a few creative possibilities. |
Core Engine |
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Flat file schema generation wizard
Developing flat file schemas to process documents from legacy systems used to come with headaches, but this process has been significantly improved by the introduction of a FF Schema Wizard in BTS 2006. Webcast |
Development |
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In-order delivery on send ports
This adapter-agnostic feature allows any send port to process outbound documents serially. Failure options also exist to allow even very strict FIFO solutions to be easily realized. |
Core Engine |
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Streamlined Developer Redeployment
Preserving users’ bindings between assembly redeployment from Visual Studio increases the productivity of developers and greatly decreases time to solution. |
Development |
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Enhanced e-mail composing
The SMTP adapter has been completely overhauled to make it trivial to compose e-mail messages and hence easily involve users in your business processes. Webcast |
Adapters |
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Best Practice Analyzer
This utility will allow users to check their environment for utilization of best practices prior to going live in production. BPA web updates will ensure all of the latest knowledge is quickly and easily disseminated to users. On the road to bulletproof deployments… |
Administration |
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BAM Enhancements
Alerting and notification make involving business users in your business processes an asynchronous, event-driven model. Plus, out of box BAM portals and web parts make it easier to display relevant and customized content to data consumers. Allowing BAM in messaging-only solutions and continuation from non-BTS applications also opens up new doors in terms of visibility into your extended business processes. Webcast |
Business Activity Monitoring |
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Improved large message transformation
Messages over a configurable size threshold can now be mapped in a streaming fashion, utilizing minimal system resources and ensuring platform stability. |
Core Engine |
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E2E Scenarios
New to our documentation and SDK are the End to End Scenarios which describe and illustrate proven practices for developing SOA, B2B, and BPM scenarios with BizTalk Server via production-ready solution samples. |
Documentation |
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More resumable suspension scenarios
More cases resulting in resumable suspensions allow for easier manageability and decrease total cost of ownership for IT professionals. |
Core Engine |
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Updated MOM Pack
An updated MOM Pack supporting Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 will be available and customized to the BizTalk Server 2006 product. |
Administration |
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Non-atomic interchange processing
Interchanges are batches of sub-documents that arrive as one message. Previously, if 1 of 100 sub-documents were to fail processing, the other 99 documents would be automatically suspended as well. This option allows for sub-documents to be processed more independently. |
Core Engine |
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Remote administration capabilities
Admin-only installs allow remote users to administer multiple environments from a single MMC console. This eliminates VS as a requirement for overseeing and managing your production environments. |
Administration |
