BizTalk Server Platform Updates
Over the past few months we’ve seen an incredible wave of new platform products and technologies including Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You may remember that in the past BizTalk Server has updated features to support the most recent platform releases. With BizTalk Server 2006 once the RTM versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 were released, we did final testing and sent a new version of BizTalk Server out the door.
Based on feedback from customers and partners, we are planning to do the same thing this time around to follow closely on the heels of this latest platform wave. Once SQL Server 2008 (the final of the three to be released) becomes generally available, we will follow with an updated version of BizTalk Server designed for the latest versions of Windows Server, the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. This will mean that BizTalk Server customers will continue to take full advantage of the platform’s latest improvements including: scalability for mission-critical workloads, improved support for next-generation web and service oriented applications, improved virtualization support and better business insight through Office.
We are also taking the opportunity as part of this BizTalk Server release to deliver additional customer-requested capabilities for our core SOA infrastructure. We will give more updates on specific features in the coming months, but at a high level we are planning some new investments in the release that includes:
New web service registry capabilities with support for UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) version 3.0
Enhanced service enablement of applications (through new and enhanced adapters for LOB applications, databases, and legacy/host systems)
Enhanced service enablement of “edge” devices through BizTalk RFID Mobile
Enhanced interoperability and connectivity support for B2B protocols (like SWIFT, EDI, etc)
SOA patterns and best practices guidance to assist our customer’s implementations
To ensure existing BTS applications continue to run without changes, we are taking an incremental approach and limiting the changes to the items listed above. Because this release build on existing bits, the name of this release will be BizTalk Server 2006 R3. Refreshing the bits (instead of applying a large Service Pack) provides for the best update experience.You should expect to see a CTP of BizTalk Server 2006 R3 later this year (with an RTM planned in H1 CY09).
Stay tuned for an update in the coming weeks! See you @ TechEd.
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Anonymous
April 22, 2008
PingBack from http://seroter.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/next-version-of-biztalk-server-announced/Anonymous
April 22, 2008
A number of you (my customers) have asked about the support of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the 2008 waveAnonymous
April 22, 2008
Official news about the next release of BizTalk Server has been released on Steve Martins blog here withAnonymous
April 22, 2008
In an earlier post I wrote about Microsoft researching possibilities for BizTalk Server 2006 supportingAnonymous
April 22, 2008
Steve Martin vient d'annoncer la sortie d'une release 3 pour BizTalk pour mi-2009, avec des complémentsAnonymous
April 22, 2008
Nice to see the long awaited integration of VS2008 and BTS2006. Good news.Anonymous
April 22, 2008
Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be available...Anonymous
April 22, 2008
Voici une annonce qui fait plaisir de bon matin ! BizTalk Server 2006 R3 RTM pour le premier semestreAnonymous
April 22, 2008
Have you heard? Biztalk 2006 R3 has been announced ...Anonymous
April 22, 2008
Microsoft announced a new release for BizTalk, and it's an R3 release. Major investments for thisAnonymous
April 22, 2008
The next version of Biztalk (Biztalk Server 2006 R3) was just announced. More details can be found inAnonymous
April 22, 2008
Steve Martin som er product manager for divisjonen for Connected System, annonserte i dag (23. april)Anonymous
April 22, 2008
BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced Today, Steve Martin announced in his post BizTalk Server Platform UpdatesAnonymous
April 23, 2008
E' stato annunciato da Steven Martin e sul blog del team di BizTalk il prossimo rilascio della versioneAnonymous
April 23, 2008
So what you are saying is no Windows Server 2008 support until 2009?Anonymous
April 23, 2008
A new release of BizTalk 2006 in the make: BizTalk Server 2006 R3!Anonymous
April 23, 2008
Just in case you haven't heard from every other BizTalk blogger, BizTalk Server 2006 R3 has been announced.Anonymous
April 23, 2008
BizTalk 2006 R3 - Microsoft's next release - is expected to more closely align with Windows Server, SQLAnonymous
April 23, 2008
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April 23, 2008
Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's ConnectedAnonymous
April 24, 2008
Fanstastic!!! Bring on the Betas!!! Where/When?? How?Anonymous
April 24, 2008
In case you haven't heard, it was formally announced that a new release of BizTalk Server 2006 isAnonymous
April 24, 2008
BizTalk Server 2006 R3 AnnouncedAnonymous
May 01, 2008
I have two things to be excited about today. First, we’ve finally had some sunny spring days in SeattleAnonymous
May 01, 2008
Steven Martin announced another important update for our customers & partners: we’ve come to an agreementAnonymous
May 12, 2008
We get a reasonable amount of feedback from BizTalk users that would like a more seamless experienceAnonymous
May 12, 2008
環境: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 (または WSS 3.0) BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Visual StudioAnonymous
May 13, 2008
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen Microsoft announce several Interop-related work that the company isAnonymous
May 13, 2008
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen Microsoft announce several Interop-related work that the company isAnonymous
May 13, 2008
Ha még valakihez még nem jutott volna el a hír, az MS bejelentette a BizTalk 2006 R3-at. Ami igazábólAnonymous
May 23, 2008
I've just had my longest vacations in the last 4 or 5 years. And it was great :-). The week started offAnonymous
June 13, 2008
Hello, I’m Charles (Charley) Fichter , a Snr. Solutions Architect on the GISV Architecture team. ThanksAnonymous
June 26, 2008
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September 14, 2008
Sounds familiar? Well, it seems to be the theme for Microsoft as well. A slew of new technologies haveAnonymous
December 02, 2008
Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), announcing an update of the BizTalk Server for the 2008 Wave technologies. It will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. It will alsoAnonymous
December 09, 2008
Steve ha pubblicato nuovi aggiornamenti riguardo le nuove features della futura R3. direi che in generaleAnonymous
January 04, 2009
BizTalk Server 2006 R3 AnnouncedAnonymous
January 23, 2009
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