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 Duration 35 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

Overview of BizTalk Server Features and Architecture

  • Key components, tools, and core tasks

Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server

  • Basic versus custom configuration approaches
  • Pre-installation prerequisites and tasks
  • Execution of installation and configuration
  • Post-installation verification and tasks

Getting Started

  • Navigating the user interface
  • Using the BizTalk Server Administration console
  • Utilizing the BTSTask command-line utility

Setting up and Managing Users

  • Securing user passwords via ESSO
  • Managing user credentials and access

Routing Messages

  • Configuring message routing paths
  • Handling message sending and receiving (adapters)
  • Establishing business process workflows (orchestration)

Securing Messages

  • Installing and configuring certificates within BizTalk
  • Protecting messages through pipeline security
  • Processes for message encryption and decryption
  • Application and verification of digital signatures

Creating, Running and Managing Business Rules

  • Fundamentals of business rule operation
  • Implementing rules via the Business Rules Engine (BRE)
  • Administration of the Business Rules Engine (BRE)

Deploying a BizTalk Application

  • Deploying application assemblies
  • Customization of binding files
  • Deploying applications as MSI Packages
  • Diagnosing and resolving runtime exceptions

Automating BizTalk Deployment

  • Identifying processes suitable for automation
  • Scripting deployments using BTSTask
  • Scripting deployments using PowerShell
  • Automating various administrative routines

Integrating Applications across Organizational Boundaries

  • Case Study: Exchange of business documents
  • Determining message flow origins and destinations
  • Understanding the role of ports and bindings
  • Leveraging parties, roles, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Tracking and Monitoring Business Activity

  • Enabling and managing tracking configurations
  • Activating data analytics capabilities
  • Configuring Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
  • Tracking, visualizing, and interpreting data
  • Utilizing third-party monitoring solutions

Configuring BizTalk Server for High Availability

  • Managing hosts and host instances
  • Isolation strategies for hosts and services

Disaster Recovery in BizTalk

  • Formulating a disaster recovery strategy
  • Restoring the BizTalk Server database
  • Recovering the BizTalk Server runtime environment
  • Restoring the Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) system

Updating BizTalk

  • Installing Feature Packs
  • Installing additional BizTalk Server tools

Industry Best Practices

Troubleshooting Procedures

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Prior experience in managing Windows-based network infrastructures

Target Audience

  • System Administrators
  • Systems Engineers

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