What Happens to Artifacts During Application Deployment

The topics in this section describe what happens to the artifacts associated with an application when you add and remove artifacts, export and import applications and artifacts, and install and uninstall applications. It covers subjects such as the following:

• How artifacts are added to and removed from the BizTalk Server databases

• How artifacts are copied to and deleted from the local file system

• How artifacts (.NET assemblies and COM components) are added to or removed from the Windows Registry

• How artifacts (BizTalk assemblies and .NET assemblies) are installed or uninstalled in the global assembly cache

• How certificates are added to the local certificate store

In This Section

• What Happens When Artifacts Are Added and Removed

• What Happens When Artifacts Are Exported

• What Happens When Artifacts Are Imported

• What Happens to Artifacts During Installation and Uninstallation