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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the BizTalk Administration Console


The BizTalk Server Administration Console is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) which you can use to manage and monitor the BizTalk Server, and which you can use to deploy and manage your BizTalk Server applications. Administrators and/or BizTalk operators will use this tool for numerous tasks as all the settings in the BizTalk group can be controlled in a single user-interface common such as other MMC snap-ins and IIS.

Often the BizTalk Administration Console is the first place the administrator will look to identifying errors or issues in BizTalk and determine how to resolve them. Other tools which can aid, or are better suited to do so, are the Windows Event Log (that is also accessible through the BizTalk Administration Console), SQL Server, and other external applications. The SCOM Event Viewer can give a first indication about an error that has occurred in BizTalk. The BizTalk Server writes errors to the application event log each time an error...