Getting started with BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server is a publish and subscribe architecture that uses adapters to receive and send messages, implements business processes through orchestration, and includes management and tracking of these different parts. BizTalk Server also includes trading partner management for business-to-business messaging, high availability to maximize uptime, a development platform to create your own components, an administration console to manage your artifacts, and business activity monitoring to manage aggregations, alerts, and profiles.
Understanding BizTalk, runtime architecture, and TPM
If you're looking to get started with BizTalk Server, including learning how it works, then here are some good resources:
- Understanding BizTalk Server
- Runtime Architecture
- Trading Partner Management
- Numerous topics on the TechNet Wiki
Install, configure, and tutorials
Read about what's new, install BizTalk Server, and step through some tutorials:
Architecting or planning
If you're starting to architect a solution or are in the planning phase, then the following topics may help:
- Scenarios for business solutions
- Sample BizTalk Server architectures
- Project planning recommendations by phase
- Scaling your solutions
- Creating a highly available BizTalk Server environment
- Security Case Studies for Small to Medium-Sized Companies
Manage existing environments
If you have an existing BizTalk Server environment, then these are good resources:
- Managing BizTalk Server performance settings
- Post-configuration steps to optimize your environment
- Configuration parameters that affect adapter performance
- Backing up a computer running BizTalk Server
- Archiving and purging the tracking database
- Performance counters