About this Course

This course covers everything a new BizTalk Server Administrator needs to know to "hit the ground running": installation and configuration, disaster recovery, tracking, troubleshooting, deployment, scripting, and a variety of community tools and best practices.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for:

• Systems Administrators - who deploy and manage a multi-server BizTalk Server environment
• Systems Engineers - who design and manage a BizTalk enterprise infrastructure

Attendees are expected to have hands-on experience managing a Windows-based network environment, but no prior BizTalk Server experience required.

At Course Completion

At course completion, students will be able to:

• Setup new BizTalk Server Groups
• Add new BizTalk Server computers to an existing BizTalk Server group
• Deploy BizTalk Server applications using MSIs
• Manage application configuration using binding files
• Securely manage passwords using ESSO Affiliate Applications
• Configure routing of messages using Filter Expressions
• Enable high-availability of BizTalk Server processes using hosts and host instances
• Deploy custom Business Activity Monitoring tracking solutions
• Enable EDI-based integration with trading partners
• Deploy, monitor, and manage Business Rule Engine policies
• Automate BizTalk Server management tasks using BTSTask and PowerShell scripts
• Configure BizTalk database log shipping
• Design disaster recovery plans
• Configure BizTalk Receive Ports and Receive Locations
• Configure BizTalk Send Ports and Send Port Groups
• Enable message security using pipelines

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to BizTalk Server

• What Is BizTalk Server?
• The BizTalk Server Development Environment
• Lab: Examining a BizTalk Application

Module 2: Deploying BizTalk Applications

• Deployment Fundamentals
• Deploying Manually
• Working with Bindings Files
• Deploying using MSI Packages
• Lab: Deploying a BizTalk Application

Module 3: Configuring BizTalk Applications

• The BizTalk Publish Subscribe Model
• Introduction to Adapters
• Creating Receive and Send Ports
• Logical Port Bindings
• Lab: Configuring a BizTalk Application

Module 4: Tracking and Troubleshooting BizTalk Applications

• Troubleshooting using the Group Hub
• Lab: Troubleshooting BizTalk Server Applications
• Enabling Tracking
• Viewing Tracked Information
• Lab: Implementing BizTalk Server Tracking

Module 5: Setting up BizTalk Environments

• Planning a BizTalk Installation
• Pre-Installation Tasks
• Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server
• Post Configuration Tasks
• Lab: Install and Configure BizTalk Server

Module 6: Creating Highly-Available BizTalk Environments

• BizTalk Hosts and Host Instances
• Creating Hosts and Host Instances
• Isolated Hosts and Web Services
• Lab: Creating Hosts and Host Instances

Module 7: Scripting Management Tasks

• Scripting using BTSTask
• Scripting using PowerShell
• Lab: Scripting BizTalk Management

Module 8: Securing Passwords using ESSO

• ESSO Fundamentals
• Extending ESSO
• Lab: Managing Credentials using ESSO

Module 9: Business Activity Monitoring for Administrators

• BAM Fundamentals
• Administration of BAM Components
• Lab: Administrating Business Activity Monitoring

Module 10: Business Rules Engine for Administrators

• BRE Fundamentals
• BRE Administration Tasks
• Lab: Deploying and Managing Business Rule Policies

Module 11: BizTalk Message Security

• Securing Messages using Pipelines
• Encrypting and Decrypting Messages
• Applying and Verifying Digital Signatures
• Lab: Enabling Encryption and Decryption

Module 12: Business to Business Integration using EDI

• Role-Based Integration
• What is EDI?
• Enabling EDI-Based Messaging
• Lab: B2B Integration using EDI

Module 13: 3rd Party Utilities

• BizTalk Server Community Tools
• Lab: BizTalk Utilities and Tools

Module 14: Disaster Recovery Planning for BizTalk Server

• Disaster Recovery Considerations
• Recovering BizTalk Server Databases
• Recovering the BizTalk Server Runtime
• Recovering Enterprise Single Sign-On
• Lab: Implementing BizTalk Log Shipping