Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Operations Guide

This guide caters to BizTalk Server 2009 and provides operational readiness information to help you jumpstart with your BizTalk Server setup.

Note
To see the Operations Guide for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or BizTalk Server 2006, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=130458.

We organized the guide according to the functional aspects of planning, deploying, and managing a BizTalk Server installation. You can therefore read it according to these functional aspects. However, realizing that the checklists would be the most sought after information in the BizTalk Server 2009 Operations Guide, we have categorized all the checklists in the document in the following table for ease of accessibility.

If you are performing the following tasks, you can start with the related sections:

• Evaluating operational readiness: If you are focused on assessing and evaluating the operational readiness of a BizTalk Server deployment, then start by reading the Operations Checklists and Increasing Availability for BizTalk Server sections.
  
  
• Becoming operationally ready: To ensure that your BizTalk Server infrastructure and applications become operationally ready, refer to the Planning the Environment for BizTalk Server section.
  
  
• Maintaining an operational environment: Most of the topics in the operations guide assist you in maintaining an operational BizTalk Server environment. You will find best practices, key concepts, and procedures for maintaining an operational environment in the following sections: Increasing Availability for BizTalk Server, Monitoring BizTalk Server, and Maintaining BizTalk Server.
  
  

Guidance based on real-world experience. The idea for the guide originated with Microsoft field representatives, partner organizations, and customers who plan, deploy, and maintain BizTalk Server installations. This group of IT professionals has accumulated extensive hands-on experience with a diverse range of BizTalk solutions. As they gained experience they created checklists, best practices, and presentations to guide future BizTalk Server operations. We collected and organized this information to create the guide.

Key portions of this guide are new; however, a considerable portion refers to BizTalk Server Help, white papers, Knowledge Base articles, and other sources. It has been carefully reviewed and vetted by experts from the community of BizTalk Server IT professionals and members of the product development team, whom we gratefully acknowledge at the end of this topic. We believe that the information presented here will help BizTalk Server users solve, and above all, avoid many of the common problems that can occur while deploying and maintaining a BizTalk Server installation.

This version of BizTalk Server 2009 Operations Guide includes some new content and checklists and contains updates to some existing topics. Also, some topics have been removed from this guide and are referenced from the BizTalk Server 2009 Help on MSDN.

Additions to This Version of the Guide

Updates to Content in this Guide

Content in this Guide that has Been Moved to the BizTalk Server 2009 Core Documentation

The BizTalk Server User Education team gratefully acknowledge the outstanding contributions of the following individuals for providing both technical feedback and content for this guide:

Authors

• Tim Wieman (Microsoft)
  
  
• Petr Kratochvil (Microsoft)
  
  

Contributors

• Paolo Salvatori (Microsoft)
  
  
• Ben Cooper (Microsoft)
  
  
• Valery Mizonov (Microsoft)
  
  
• Rob Steel (Microsoft)
  
  
• Darren Jefford (Microsoft)
  
  
• Stephen Kaufman (Microsoft)
  
  
• Ben Kennedy (Microsoft)
  
  
• Clint Huffman (Microsoft)
  
  

Reviewers

• Ewan Fairweather (Microsoft)
  
  
• Charles Xu (Microsoft)
  
  
• Shashi Ramaka (Microsoft)
  
  
• Bill Ticehurst (Microsoft)
  
  
• Mark Burch (Microsoft)
  
  
• Louis Weinstein (Microsoft)
  
  
• Guy Lau (Microsoft)
  
  
• Everett Yang (Microsoft)
  
  
• Mandi Ohlinger (Microsoft)
  
  
• Niklas Engfelt (Microsoft)
  
  
• Sumit Mohanty (Microsoft)
  
  
• Yury Bogucharov
  
  
• Todd Van Nurden (Microsoft)
  
  
• Frederick Dugas (Microsoft)
  
  
• Ahmed Metwally (Microsoft)
  
  
• Lindsey Allen (Microsoft)
  
  
• Tony Voellm (Microsoft)
  
  
• Todd Uhl (Microsoft)
  
  
• Dwaine Gilmer (Microsoft)
  
  
• Guy Lau (Microsoft)
  
  
• Danny Garber (Microsoft)
  
  
• Quoc Bui (Microsoft)
  
  
• Shu Zhang (Microsoft)
  
  
• Sangram Mohapatra (Microsoft)
  
  
• Saravana Kumar (Microsoft)
  
  
• Young Jun Hong (Microsoft)
  
  
• Radu Pasol (Microsoft)
  
  
• Philip Reilly (Microsoft)
  
  
• Manjiri Sakdeo (Microsoft)
  
  
• Richard Seroter (Amgen)
  
  
• Keven Markham (Microsoft)
  
  
• Basil Cheng (Microsoft)
  
  
• Jim Allen (Research Machines)
  
  
• Robert Hogg (Black Marble)
  
  

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