BizTalk Server 2002 Architecture and Functional Overview

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BizTalk Server 2002 Architecture and Functional
Overview

• Mike Cramer
• Principal Technology Specialist
• BSG New England

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Agenda

• BizTalk Server 2000 Overview
• BizTalk Server 2002 Release Themes
• BTS 2002 Functional Overview
• QA

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Roadmap

• BizTalk Server 2000
• Released December 2000
• BizTalk Server 2002
• Code name Bizet
• Enterprise Edition
• Most commonly requested features in Enterprise
  customer base
• Currently in Beta

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BTS 2002 Functional Overview

• Target Enterprise Operational areas
• Deployment
• Intra-Company
• Inter-Company
• Monitoring
• Management
• Tools and Add-On Features
• EDI Enhancements
• XML Tools Enhancements
• Orchestration Enhancements
• Documentation/High-End Samples

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Deployment Scenarios

• Intra-Company Deployment
• How can operations managers move BizTalk Server
  solutions from one environment to another (e.g.
  dev? test? staging? production)?
• How can operations managers deploy BizTalk Server
  solutions between machines in a server farm?
• Inter Company Deployment
• How can an enterprise hub help its trading
  partners connect without incurring costs
  associated with technical hand-holding?

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Deployment Requirements

• Encapsulate a BizTalk Application
• Simple and intuitive experience
• Facilitate deployment across clusters/firewalls
• Staging Development to Test to Staging to
  Production
• Deploy Now
• Scheduled replication
• Automatically within a cluster

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Intra-Company Deployment
Development/Staging Environment
Firewall
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Intra-Company Deployment

• Solution based on Application Center
• BizTalk driver for Application Center
• Enumerates configuration artifacts hierarchically
• Messaging ports, distribution lists, custom
  counters, receive functions (channel, docdefs,
  maps, envelopes, etc
• Native Application Center drivers
• File System Orchestration schedule files.
• COM COM apps.
• Web sites.

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Inter-Company Deployment

• Goal Rapidly create B2B relationships
• Scenario
• Typical Hub-Spoke model
• IT Dept woes
• Ensuring data from client is in order
• Client Configuration debugging
• Connectivity testing
• SEED Tools Super Effective and Efficient
  Deployment

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SEED Methodology

• Hub Tasks
• Create SEED packages
• Establish Testing Service (BTS in the sky)
• Spoke Tasks
• Download SEED
• Run client tools
• Perform
• Self Test Local Loopback
• Remote Loopback
• Request to do Business
• IT Manager approval

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Inter-Company DeploymentSEED
Hub
6. Done
Spoke
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Monitoring Customer Feedback

• Target Users
• IT operations
• Business User
• We need
• Richer, user defined, events and counters.
• Guidance on interpreting NT Events
• More powerful alerts and notifications.
• Orchestration related performance counters.

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Monitoring/Tracking

• Solution will be based on Microsoft Operations
  Manager (MOM)
• Features
• Health Monitoring across server farms
• User definable monitoring, alerts, and
  notification
• Better problem resolution support
• Event consolidation and alert/notification
  throttling

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New Tracking/Monitoring Features

• Custom Counters
• Richer Suspended Queue Event
• MOM Management Pack
• NT Event rules and KB
• Alerting and Notification
• New Orchestration performance counters

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Custom Counters

• Need to monitor, alert, and notify based on
  richer set of document processing info.
• Example
• Important Customer NorthWind
• If the orders per day from my fulfillment
  organization to NorthWind drop below 100, raise
  an alert in MOM and notify me via email.

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MOM
WMI
Inbound Interchange
Outbound Interchange
BTS Messaging
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Custom Counters (cont.)

• Custom Counter Properties
• Counter (WMI class instance) name
• Source Organization
• Source Qualifier
• Source Value
• Destination Organization
• Destination Qualifier
• Destination Value
• Document Type
• Time Interval
• BTS Group Name

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Suspended Queue Event

• Additional Properties
• Document Source
• Document Destination
• Document Type
• Processing Stage (e.g., parsing, transform,
  Transport
• Channel Port IDs
• User created MOM rules consume, filter, alert,
  and notify.
• Will ship sample MOM rules.

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NT Events

• BTS 2000 single event ID
• Bizet unique event IDs in description
• MOM Rules and KB for consuming and responding to
  NT Events
• Rules are language neutral

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MOM

• MOM management pack
• Basic providers and rules
• Knowledge base, local and MS.com links
• NT Events
• Custom counters
• Suspended queue event enhancements
• Performance Counters (includes new XLANG)
• Samples
• Globalization/localization

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EDI Enhancements

• Outbound batching-Functional Acknowledgements of
  EDI Documents
• EDI Parser Enhancements
• All versions, all schemas, Industry specific
  subsets Partnership with 3rd party

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BizTalk XML Tools

• Standards support
• Export XSD schemas
• Upgrade DTD Import module
• Jscript in functoids
• Map grid scalability
• Instance based map testing

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Orchestration

• Schedule Instance based Correlation
• Avoid per-schedule instance queues
• Samples
• Schedule Instance Pooling
• Exception Handling
• DB Maintenance scripts

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Documentation

• Documentation
• More of why, rather than how
• Scenario based concept section
• Integrating documentation with samples
• White Papers
• Dynamic ports and how to use them
• BizTalk for EAI
• Commerce Server and BizTalk integration paper
• Native XDR Schemas and BTS
• High-End Samples
• 25 applications

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Summary

• Targets deployment, management, monitoring and
  commonly requested features
• Due for release in Q4 CY 2001