BizTalk for Administrators - Beginner to Advanced

• Experience managing Windows-based network environments

Audience

• System administrators
• System engineers
• Developers

Microsoft BizTalk is an enterprise message conversion system and integration platform that enables disparate IT systems and applications to communicate with each other, for example, to exchange business documents such as purchase orders and invoices across organizational boundaries.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at admins and engineers who wish to design, deploy and manage a multi-server BizTalk Server environment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure BizTalk Server.
• Set up and manage BizTalk users.
• Set up and secure message routing within an organization.
• Configure EDI-based integration with partners outside of the organization.
• Deploy, monitor, and manage business rules.
• Automate the deployment of BizTalk applications.
• Track, monitor and analyze Business Activity.
• Plan and implement high-availability and disaster recovery for Biztalk Server.
• Optimize the performance of BizTalk Server and its envrionment.
• Automate the monitoring of business activity.
• Troubleshoot runtime exceptions.
• Automate testing of Biztalk.
• Plan and execute systematic maintenance of Biztalk.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

Overview of BizTalk Server Features and Architecture

• BizTalk components, tools and tasks

Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server

• Basic vs custom configuration
• Pre-installation tasks
• Installing and configuring
• Post-installation tasks

Getting Started

• Navigating the UI
• BizTalk Server Administration console
• BTSTask command-line tool

Setting up and Managing Users

• Securing user passwords using ESSO
• Managing user credentials

Routing Messages

• Configuring message routing
• Sending and receiving messages (adaptors)
• Setting up a business process workflow (orchestration)

Securing Messages

• Installing and configuring certificates in Biztalk
• Securing messages using pipelines
• Encrypting and decrypting a message
• Applying and verifying a digital signature

Creating, Running and Managing Business Rules

• How business rules work
• Implementing business rules using Business Rules Engine (BRE)
• Managing Business Rules Engine (BRE)

Deploying a Biztalk Application

• Deploying an assembly to an application
• Customizing binding files
• Deploying the application as an MSI Package
• Troubleshooting runtime exceptions

Automating a BizTalk Deployment

• What to automate
• Scripting using BTSTask
• Scripting using PowerShell
• Automating other administrative tasks

Integrating Applications across Organizational Boundaries

• Case Study: Exchanging business documents
• Determining where and how to send and receive messages
• Understanding ports and bindings
• Using parties, roles, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Tracking and Monitoring Business Activity

• Enabling and managing tracking settings
• Enabling data analytics
• Configuring Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Tracking, viewing and analyzing data
• Third-party monitoring tools

Configuring Biztalk Server for Highly-Available

• Managing hosts and host instances
• Isolating hosts, services, etc.

Disaster Recovery in BizTalk

• Planning for Disaster Recovery
• Recovering the BizTalk Server databases
• Recovering the BizTalk Server runtime
• Recovering Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO)

Updating Biztalk Server

• Installing Feature Packs
• Installing BizTalk Server tools

Managing BizTalk Server Applications

• Deploying a BizTalk application
• Updating the application

Setting up Hosts and Host Instances

• Configuring a BizTalk host as a cluster resource
• Configuring BizTalk adapter
• Managing the MessageBox database

Testing Biztalk Server

• Unit testing
• Performance testing
• Automated testing

Monitoring BizTalk Server

• Types of Monitoring
• What is PAL?
• Other Tools for Monitoring BizTalk Server

Automated Monitoring of BizTalk Server

• Monitoring BizTalk Using OpsMgr
• Monitoring BizTalk Using BizTalk 360
• Monitoring BizTalk Using AIMS for BizTalk

Fixing Errors

• Handling runtime exceptions
• Troubleshooting runtime exceptions

Optimizing BizTalk Server Performance

• General optimizations
• Optimizing for low latency
• Using Relog.exe

Optimizing BizTalk Server Environment

• Optimizing the operating system
• Optimizing the network
• Optimizing IIS

Optimzing SQL Server

• Optimizing before and after BizTalk Server

Optimizing Resources

• Understanding the Biztalk throttling mechanism
• Adjusing throttling settings

BizTalk Server Environment Maintenance

• Creating a checklist
• Carrying out daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly maintenance tasks

Summary and Conclusion