Welcome to the Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2009 Operations Guide. We created this guide to be a valuable resource for anyone involved in the implementation and administration of a BizTalk solution, particularly IT professionals.
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Which Versions of BizTalk Server Does the Guide Cover?
This guide caters to BizTalk Server 2009 and provides operational readiness information to help you jumpstart with your BizTalk Server setup.
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.
Setting Up Your BizTalk Environment | Setting Up a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Environment |
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Monitoring, Testing, and Troubleshooting | Performance and Maintenance |
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Checklists for Other Important Tasks |
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If you are performing the following tasks, you can start with the related sections:
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.
Changes in This Version of the Guide
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
Optimizing Performance for BizTalk Server, including the topics within | How to Add a Binding File to an Application |
Maintaining Security, including the topics within | How to Add Certificates to an Application |
Maintaining BizTalk Server Databases | How to Install and Configure Certificates with a WCF Adapter |
How To Backup the Master Secret | Scaling Out Processing Hosts |
How to Ensure Multiple Servers Are Part of a BizTalk Group | Scaling Out Sending Hosts |
Artifacts That Must Be Unique in an Application | Best Practices for Disaster Recovery |
Permissions for Managing an Application | Backing Up the BAM Analysis and Tracking Analysis Server Databases |
Testing an Application | How to Restore the Master Secret Server |
How to Install an Application | How to Configure the Destination System |
How to Import Bindings from a Binding File | How to Restore Databases in the Backup BizTalk Server Job |
How to Resolve Incomplete BAM Activity Instances | How to Start the SQL Server Agent |
How to Schedule a Backup BizTalk Server Job | How to Configure a Backup BizTalk Server Job |
Permissions for Managing an Application | Artifacts That Must Be Unique in an Application |
How to Add a Binding File to an Application | How to Install an Application |
How to Import Bindings from a Binding File | Testing an Application |
How to Add a Reference to an Application | How to Install and Configure Certificates with a WCF Adapter |
How to Add Certificates to an Application | BizTalk Server 64-Bit Support |
We in the BizTalk Server User Education team gratefully acknowledge the outstanding contributions of the following individuals for providing both technical feedback as well as a good deal of content for the BizTalk Server Operations Guide:
- Ahmed Metwally, Darren Jefford, Frederick Dugas, Guy Lau, Keven Markham, Louis Weinstein, Mark Burch, Rob Steel, Shashi Ramaka (Microsoft Consultants)
- Basil Cheng, Ben Kennedy, Charles Xu, Clint Huffman, Todd Uhl (Microsoft Field Engineers)
- Bill Ticehurst, Manjiri Sakdeo, Sangram Mohapatra, Shu Zhang, Young Jun Hong (Microsoft Software Test Engineers)
- Danny Garber, Philip Reilly, Radu Pasol (Microsoft Architects)
- Dwaine Gilmer, Everett Yang, Mandi Ohlinger, Niklas Engfelt (Microsoft Support Specialists)
- Ewan Fairweather, Paolo Salvatori, Tim Wieman (BizTalk Server Customer Advisory Team)
- Sumit Mohanty, Yury Bogucharov (Microsoft Software Developers)
- Todd Van Nurden (Microsoft Product Technology Specialist)