Manage Orchestrations

Overview

This section provides instructions on using the BizTalk Server Administration console to manage orchestrations. An orchestration is an executable business process. For background information about orchestrations, see Orchestrations.

Add to application

Orchestrations are built in Visual Studio and compiled into BizTalk assemblies. You cannot add an orchestration to an application individually; an orchestration is added to an application as follows:

• When you add a BizTalk assembly containing an orchestration to the application, as described in How to Add a BizTalk Assembly to an Application.

• When you import an .msi file into an application that includes a BizTalk assembly containing an orchestration, as described in How to Import a BizTalk Application.

• When a developer deploys into an application an assembly containing an orchestration from Visual Studio, as described in Deploying BizTalk Assemblies from Visual Studio into a BizTalk Application.

BizTalk Administration tasks

You use the administration console to perform the following actions, as described in this section:

• Configure bindings for the orchestration by binding the orchestration to the appropriate send and receive ports and host, or remove these bindings from the orchestration.

• Configure message tracking for the orchestration.

• View instance information for the orchestration.

• Enlist the orchestration to the appropriate host or unenlist the orchestration from the host.

• Start or stop the orchestration so that it starts or stops processing messages.

Note

You can use Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Object Model to create and run scripts that automate administrative tasks. For information about using WMI, see the WMI Class Reference in the UI guidance and developers API namespace reference.

Note

The developer uses Orchestration Designer to create orchestrations, as described in Creating Orchestrations Using Orchestration Designer. The developer can manage orchestrations during the development process by using the administration console, as described in this section.

Next steps

• Configure Bindings for an Orchestration

• Unbind an Orchestration

• Configure Tracking for an Orchestration

• View Instance Information for an Orchestration

• Remove an Orchestration from an Application

• Enlist an Orchestration

• Unenlist an Orchestration

• Start an Orchestration

• Stop an Orchestration

• Suspend, Resume, and Terminate Orchestration Instances

• Upgrade an Orchestration