Useful BizTalk Server White Papers

Sep 20, 2013

Architectural Thoughts on JSON from a BizTalk Perspective

If you were someone who worked in the enterprise integration area and in particular with BizTalk, JSON wasn’t something you would be likely to come across before about 2010. If you did it was usually an unusual scenario. Around this time though there was a large increase in the use of REST based services as an alternative to SOAP based services and closely following that was an increase in scenarios where you may need to use JSON with BizTalk. JSON probably already the default way most new REST based services will offer data, although many do still offer both JSON and XML. Around this same time BizTalk introduced us to the REST adapter and BizTalk developers begun to explore options for using JSON with BizTalk. This use case will definitely grow a lot in the future versions of BizTalk and we will see more use cases with JSON outside of REST. Author : Michael Stephenson

WCF-BasicHttpRelay Adapter Deep Dive

This white paper will discuss the WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter, its characteristics, how to configure it, and how to use it within a basic hybrid scenario. You will learn how to setup an endpoint in BizTalk Server without using the BizTalk Service Publishing Wizard. This article will strictly confine to BizTalk Server Administration console to configure a receive port with a location configured with WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter. Why this can be useful and what happens in the background when a message is sent to configured endpoint. Author : Steef-Jan Wiggers

BizTalk Server Assessment and Architecture Review

Best practices to make a BizTalk assessment and architecture review, includes how to organize good documentation (for all BizTalk aspects, message flows, transformation, technologies stack, infrastructure, network, adapters, disks, connections, configurations and databases) as well as the correct indicators for the whole BizTalk environment. Author : Nino Crudele

BizTalk Server Monitoring Solutions (SCOM vs BizTalk360)

To compare and contrast some of the capabilities that exist within the top two popular monitoring solutions(Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager – SCOM andBizTalk360) and provide an independent view of the strengths and weaknesses of both the products for BizTalk Server Monitoring. And will help you make an informed decision, whether to use SCOM or BizTalk360 for monitoring your BizTalk environment(s). Author : Kent Weare

Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments

Bad implementations decisions or bad maintained and monitoring politics may cause many potentials bottlenecks in BizTalk Server and many potential problems may occur in a heartbeat or can evolve over time. How companies can pro-actively avoid some of the scenarios that could happen. Author : Tord Glad Nordahl

Installing BizTalk Server 2013 in a Standalone Machine (complete user guide)

How to install and configure Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 on a single computer running Windows Server 2012. This information will help you plan the installation and configuration of BizTalk Server 2013. Author : Sandro Pereira

Installing and Configuring BizTalk360 on Windows Server 2012 / BizTalk Server 2013 (user guide)

How to install and configure BizTalk360 in an existing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 standalone machine (single computer) running under Windows Server 2012. This information will help you plan the BizTalk360 installation and configuration process and components on which it depends. Author : Sandro Pereira

The A-Y of running BizTalk Server in Microsoft Azure

How BizTalk server can be implemented in Microsoft Azure and the economic impacts of doing this when compared to on on-premises deployment, how you can leverage the Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) capabilities with Microsoft BizTalk server. The whitepaper also focuses on the different BizTalk server topologies that can be implemented in Azure. There’s also a step-by-step guide on setting up BizTalk server in Azure. Author : Johann Cooper

Choosing the right Integration Platform

This whitepaper will make decision makers to have more information on the following areas:

General Considerations when choosing an integration vendor
Features that need to be considered when choosing an integration platform
Future trends in the integration domain
How Microsoft platform stacks up against the integration requirements
Call to Action that lists the actions that are most encouraged when presented with an opportunity to select an integration platform

Author(s) : Kent Weare & Michael Stephenson

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