You can use the following tools to administer BizTalk Server, to manage BizTalk Server groups, to deploy BizTalk Server applications, to interact with trading partners, and to monitor the status of BizTalk Server:

• BizTalk Server Administration console. The BizTalk Server Administration console is the primary management tool for BizTalk Server. It provides a graphical user interface for performing all of the deployment operations for a BizTalk application. For example, you can start the Import, Installation, and Export Wizards as well as add and remove an application's artifacts and make other modifications to the application. For information about using the BizTalk Server Administration console, see Using the BizTalk Server Administration Console.
  
  
• BTSTask command-line tool. New with BizTalk Server 2006, BTSTask enables you to perform many administrative tasks from the command line. For more information about using BTSTask, see BTSTask Command-Line Reference.
  
  
• BTSDeploy command-line tool. BTSDeploy enables you to deploy and remove assemblies from the BizTalk Management database. It also allows you to import and export bindings. BTSDeploy is included in BizTalk Server 2006 to support scripts that administrators have developed to use with previous versions of BizTalk Server. While you can continue to use your BTSDeploy scripts, you should use BTSTask commands when creating new scripts. You should also consider converting your existing scripts to use BTSTask, as BTSDeploy may be removed in subsequent versions of BizTalk Server. For more information about using BTSDeploy, see BTSDeploy Command-Line Reference (Deprecated).
  
  
• Scripting and programmability APIs. You can use Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or the BizTalk Explorer Object Model to create and run scripts that automate administrative tasks. For information about using WMI, see WMI Class Reference. For more information about the BizTalk Explorer Object Model, see Using the BizTalk Explorer Object Model from Managed Code.
  
  The WMI object model exposes and simplifies administrative APIs. All administration APIs expose some form of the following operations on every object they manage: create, enumerate, modify, and delete. WMI exposes this functionality in a consistent manner for all WMI objects.
  
  
• BizTalk Explorer. Solutions developers use BizTalk Explorer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to perform administrative tasks. BizTalk Explorer provides developers working in a single-computer environment access to administration tools. For information about using BizTalk Explorer in Visual Studio 2005, see Managing Business Processes Using BizTalk Explorer.
  
  
• Business Activity Services (BAS) Web site. The Business Activity Services (BAS) Web site is a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web service site that provides business users with a simple-to-use interface that they can use to interact with trading partners and business processes in a familiar environment. For information about administering the BAS Web site, see Managing Business Activity Services.
  
  
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). BAM uses a Microsoft Office Excel workbook to provide business users with a way to see a real-time holistic view of business processes. For more information about BAM, see Using Business Activity Monitoring.
  
  
• Health and Activity Tracking (HAT). You can use the Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) tool to track the health of your BizTalk Server implementation, identify bottlenecks, and monitor the BizTalk Server environment. You can view the technical details of a particular orchestration, pipeline, or message instance, as well as see the message flow of a particular message that enters the system.
  
  Business users can view, monitor, and query the tracked data. In addition, users can create custom views and queries, and save them for reuse in other locations. Business analysts and end users can track the state of their business processes by viewing both live and archived data. For more information about HAT, see Viewing Historical or Tracked Data Using HAT.
  
  
• Human Workflow Services. You can use the Human Workflow Services (HWS) Administration console in BizTalk Server to manage human workflow objects. For information about using the HWS Administration console, see Using the HWS Administration Console.
  
  You can use WMI to create and run scripts that perform HWS administrative tasks. For information about using WMI to administration HWS, see Human Workflow Services Classes.