Implementing BizTalk Server 2004 requires significant architecture planning. Performance and scalability metrics have changed between BizTalk Server 2002 and 2004, and require you to rethink your infrastructure requirements. In addition, you should define your requirements around security, availability, scalability, performance, flexibility, manageability, and usability. After defining your architecture requirements, you should create a plan for meeting them.

Defining your technical architecture requirements is outside of the scope this document, but you can peruse BizTalk Server 2004 Web site for additional information to create an architecture plan before implementing your migration. For more information on BizTalk Server architecture requirements, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=25487

See Also

Feature Migration Planning

Planning for Migration