Managing Partner Relationships with BAS

Business users use the BizTalk Server 2006 Business Activity Services (BAS) site to manage information about trading partners and the way in which BizTalk Server exchanges messages with those partners.

The BAS site is installed when you configure BizTalk Server with BAS, or you can install BAS on a separate computer with network connectivity to your BizTalk Server installation.

Important
You must use the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer to access the BAS site. If you installed the 64-bit version of Windows on the computer you use to access the BAS site, you must open the BAS Web site using the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer.

You use the BizTalk Server Business Activity Services (BAS) Web site to manage trading partner profiles and agreements:

Trading partners are any entity with which your organization interacts or transacts business.
Trading partner profiles store business and technical data about partners.
Agreements are documents that describe how your organization conducts business with a trading partner.

The following table provides a workflow for using the BAS site to establish and maintain partner relationships.

Note
For information about the user roles in the table, see Managing Access to the BAS Site.

Task	Topic
A systems administrator grants business users access to the BAS site by adding the business users to the appropriate Windows user groups.	Managing Access to the BAS Site
A BAS administrator creates a BizTalk Server registration on the BAS site to connect the site to the BizTalk Server Management database (by default, BizTalkMgmtDb).	Connecting the BAS Site to BizTalk Server
A business user creates a profile for a trading partner and a profile for the home organization. The profiles contain business data for each organization. A BAS business manager adds credential and communication data to the trading partner profile. A business manager deploys the trading partner profile.	Creating Profiles for Trading Partners
A business user creates profile groups to organize partner profiles.	Organizing Partner Profiles with Partner Groups
A business manager creates a partner agreement, selects the Business relationship, and then activates the agreement to begin the trading partner relationship.	Establishing Partner Relationships with Agreements
A business user can access messages received from the trading partner and send messages to the trading partner.	Exchanging Messages with Partners and Processes
A BAS administrator makes sure that the data in the BAS site and in the Trading Partner Management database is the same.	Managing Partner Data
Business users manage partner profiles on an ongoing basis.	Modifying Partner Profiles
Business users manage agreements on an ongoing basis.	Modifying Trading Partner Agreements

Note
For information about using the keyboard shortcuts for BAS, see BAS Keyboard Shortcuts.

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