Choose BizTalk Server Features and Components
Review this list of features and components before beginning your installation, and decide which ones you want to install.
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Documentation | Core documentation, tutorials, UI reference (F1 Help), programmer’s reference, and usage instructions for the SDK samples and utilities. | ||
Server Runtime | The essential runtime services for BizTalk Server. | ||
BizTalk EDI/AS2 Runtime | Runtime services providing native support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) data exchange and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) data transport messaging functionality.
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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Adapter Runtime | Adapters enabling BizTalk Server to communicate with WCF-based applications.
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Portal Components | Portal components are a set of features used by the business analysts to communicate, collaborate, and reach decisions using business data. | ||
Business Activity Monitoring | Also known as BAM, these are a set of features that gives business users a real-time view of their heterogeneous business processes, thereby enabling them to take important business decisions.
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Administrative Tools and Monitoring | Components necessary to administer and monitor BizTalk Server on both the local computer and a remote server. | ||
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Administration Tools | Selecting this feature installs the administrative services for WCF components.
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Developer Tools and SDK | Samples and utilities that enable rapid creation of BizTalk Server 2013 R2 solutions. This includes SDK samples and supporting documentation, schema and map designers, and Visual Studio project templates.
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Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) Administration Module | The interface for managing SSO Affiliate Applications and their mappings. | ||
Enterprise Single Sign-On Master Secret Server | The SSO server that stores the master secret. All other SSO servers in the system get the master secret from this server. The Master Secret Server is required in a BizTalk Server environment. | ||
Business Rules Components | Used for composing policies to be consumed by the Business Rules Engine. | ||
MQSeries Agent | Provides communication between the BizTalk Adapter for MQSeries and MQSeries Server for Windows. | ||
Windows SharePoint Services Adapter Web Service | Deprecated. Using an IIS web service installed on the SharePoint Services computer, the SharePoint Services adapter processes incoming and outgoing documents through Microsoft SharePoint. Recommendation: Do not install. By default, BizTalk Server uses the SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) Redistributable automatically installed on the BizTalk Server; as described at Appendix B: Install the Microsoft SharePoint Adapter. | ||
BAM Alert Provider | Configures BAM Alerts. When using BAM Alerts with SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2012 SP1, you must configure the Database Mail feature. SQL Server Notification Services cannot be used. | ||
BAM Client | Client-side software enabling business users to work with BAM. | ||
BAM Eventing | Interceptors for Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. Also includes the BAM Event API, which sends events to the BAM database from custom applications. | ||
Project Build Component | A tool that enables you to build BizTalk Server solutions without using Visual Studio. | ||

