Getting Started with BizTalk Services

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Getting Started with BizTalk Services

Credits

Foreword

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Hello BizTalk Services

Background

Business drivers

Technical drivers

Core scenarios

Concepts

Life cycle and architecture

Personas and tools

Developer

IT Pro

Partner Administrator

Deployment considerations

Provisioning BizTalk Services

Certificates and ACS

Storage requirements

The BizTalk Services create wizard

BizTalk portal registration

Creating your first BizTalk Services solution

Scenario description

Prerequisites

Realizing the solution

Creating a BizTalk Services project

Creating the Order schema

Creating the BizTalk Services solution

Verifying the solution

Summary

2. Messages and Transforms

The problem

The mapper

The map designer

Schema

An example

Mapping operations

Testing

Configuring a bridge

Putting it all together

More on mapping

Dealing with failure

Summary

3. Bridges

Pipeline processing

Message processing

Messaging

Enrichment

Lookups

Routing

Trying it out

Brokered messaging

Summary

4. Enterprise Application Integration

Enterprise application integration scenarios

EAI in BizTalk Services

Sources

Bridges and the VETER pattern

Destinations

Attributes of bridges

Hybrid connectivity

The BizTalk Adapter Service

The BAS architecture

BAS installation and configuration

Consuming BAS with bridges

Custom code in EAI

Message inspectors

Tracking

Scenario walk-through

Prerequisites

Solution

Creating a schema

Creating custom code

Configuring the bridge

Deploying the bridge

Sending messages

Viewing tracking data

Summary

5. Business-to-business Integration

Basic concepts of B2B

Common interaction models

Direct enterprise integration

Service provider integration

Industry standards and protocols

Concepts in BizTalk Services B2B

EDI message structure

Partners and agreements

Property promotion

Batching

Selection criteria

Release criteria

Tracking and archiving

Non-repudiation

Extensibility

Scenario walk-through

Ecosystem players

Provisioning BizTalk Services

Configuring partners – Fabrikam, Northwind, and Contoso

Configuring the AS2 agreement between Fabrikam and Contoso

Configuring the X12 agreement between Northwind and Contoso

Sending messages

Viewing tracking data

Summary

6. API

REST

Calling the API

Back up and restore

Using PowerShell

Summary

7. Tracking and Troubleshooting

Messages and errors

Data for troubleshooting

Tracking

Traces and logfiles

Performance counters

Troubleshooting sources and destinations

Troubleshooting schemas and transforms

Troubleshooting bridges

Troubleshooting agreements

Troubleshooting hybrid connectivity

Summary

8. Moving to BizTalk Services

Moving from BizTalk Server

Maps

Pipelines

Schema

Adapters

Trading Partner Management (TPM)

EDIFACT support

Business Rules Engine (BRE)

Orchestration

When not to move

The future

Summary

Index

Getting Started with BizTalk Services

Getting Started with BizTalk Services

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Credits

Authors

Karthik Bharathy

Jon Fancey

Reviewers

Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Foreword

The cloud moves fast.

Welcome to Windows Azure BizTalk Services, a key part of Microsoft's cloud integration vision. With BizTalk Services, customers can connect their businesses through process automation and integrate the Web with their existing backend systems on premises; all from a flexible and scalable rock-solid platform managed using industry-leading tools.

With integration, it's not a cloud or on-premises decision, it's both. This book provides you with a great introduction to BizTalk Services, a fantastic new cloud service from Microsoft designed to help you get started quickly and productively in the shortest time possible. Jon and Karthik have done a great job in making the material easy to grasp for newcomers to the Microsoft stack as well as those experienced in BizTalk Server looking to start using BizTalk Services.

I really liked Karthik's and Jon's writing style and found this book an excellent introduction to BizTalk Services. Unlike other books, this doesn't attempt to be a huge reference full of extraneous details. Instead, it offers a relatively quick and concise read that details how to use the most important features. The result is a very approachable book that provides a great way to learn BizTalk Services and how to immediately take advantage of it.

Hold on and enjoy the ride!

Scott Guthrie

Corporate Vice President, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corporation

March 2014

Foreword

Karthik and I have worked together for over two years on Windows Azure BizTalk Services. It is a pleasure for me to introduce this book on Windows Azure BizTalk Services on behalf of Karthik and Jon.

BizTalk has been a leader in the integration space for many years now and is used by a majority of the world's largest companies for their mission-critical-systems integration. As cloud computing changes how enterprises run their business, it is important to bring this product to the cloud as a part of Windows Azure Platform. We started building Windows Azure BizTalk Services for cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises integration scenarios, targeting both enterprise and SMB customers. This new built from ground up for cloud service will harness all the power of cloud and yet make it simple to use.

In the world of modern applications and services, there is a need for IT admins and developers to comprehensively understand a technology such as BizTalk Services and apply it in their own IT ecosystem. This book precisely fills this need. This book showcases many practical, real-world scenarios and provides detailed hands-on walkthroughs of cloud integration to allow the reader to quickly understand the material presented.

I invite you to join the integration journey with Karthik and Jon as they uncover the capabilities of BizTalk Services in a lucid, approachable manner. I hope you will enjoy the book as much as I did and that it helps you to leverage BizTalk Services more effectively in your organization.

Vivek Dalvi

Principal Group Program Manager, BizTalk Product Group

March 2014

About the Authors

Karthik Bharathy is a Lead Program Manager in the BizTalk product group with nearly a decade of software experience. He has been with the product group since the days when BizTalk Services started off as a set of ideas on the drawing board. He has also shipped releases of BizTalk Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio. In his current role, he oversees the B2B platform experience across industry verticals. He has presented at several Microsoft conferences, including BizTalk Summit US and Europe, TechEd EMEA and US, TechReady US, MVP Summit US, and TechDays India.

His passion for computers started at the age of 12 when he coded BASIC on the ZX Spectrum. He graduated from Bangalore University in Computer Science summa cum laude and also holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business. In his spare time, he is usually travelling and is a major foodie.

To all the members of the BizTalk family—the product group, CSS, DPE, CAT, Marketing, UE, and UX—thank you for building this awesome integration product called BizTalk. I truly appreciate the complexity of the middleware breathing BizTalk every day! I would like to thank Vivek Dalvi, Sandeep Prabhu, Shridhar Diwan, and Rajesh Ramamirtham for the discussions and support while writing this book.

I would like to thank the MVP community for their discussions on BizTalk. I learned a lot from you guys and I respect the level of commitment you inspire towards the product. I would like to thank Steef-Jan Wiggers, Richard Seroter, Michael Stephenson, Sarvana Kumar, Sandro Pereira, Kent Weare, Mick Badran, Rick Garibay, Stephen Thomas, Bill Chestnut, Sam Vanhoutte, Dwight Goins, Ben Cline, and Mikael Hakansson for their constant feedback on BizTalk.

Special thanks to Scott Guthrie for agreeing to write the foreword of this book, and thanks to our Content Development Editor Shaon Basu and Project Coordinator Aboli Ambardekar, whose reminders and feedback kept us on our toes and helped us land the book on time.

Above all, I would like to thank my wife, Thulasi and my parents who supported and encouraged me throughout this journey.

Jon Fancey is an integration veteran who has worked on the Microsoft stack for over 20 years. He is a nine-time Microsoft Integration MVP and has worked closely with both the BizTalk Server and Host Integration Server product groups for nearly a decade. He has presented at many major conferences including TechEd, DevWeek, and the 2014 London BizTalk Summit. He has also written numerous articles and whitepapers for MSDN on BizTalk, SharePoint, and other topics.

Jon co-founded Affinus, a UK-based Microsoft partner, with Kevin B. Smith, formerly from the BizTalk product group, shipping the first three versions of the BizTalk product. Affinus works closely with large enterprise customers on interesting integration challenges, helping them move to the cloud.

Jon lives in West Sussex, UK, with his wife Fiona and two children, Ben and Tom, and their dog, Dilly.

I would like to thank the following for their help and assistance: Kevin Smith, Tomas Restrepo, and Steef-Jan Wiggers for tirelessly reviewing every word of this book, especially Steef-Jan who turned it round in a weekend on very tight deadlines. You all made it a better book, and I am very grateful for that. I'd also like to thank other members of the Affinus family, Daniel Probert and Simon Poulter, who've put up with me discussing this project for a very long time and guided my thinking along the way.

A special thanks goes to Scott and Vivek for agreeing to write forewords for us, your support on this project has been very much appreciated. And of course thanks to everyone at Packt for their support and encouragement, and deadline management!

Finally, I'd like to thank my family for giving me the time and space to write my first book; I know it's tough sometimes and without your encouragement and support this project wouldn't have been possible.

About the Reviewers

Steef-Jan Wiggers has over 15 years of experience as a technical lead developer, application architect, and consultant, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), web services, and Windows Azure. He is very active in the BizTalk community (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7141.user-page-steef-jan-wiggers-microsoft-biztalk-server-consultant-and-mvp.aspx) as a blogger, Wiki author/editor, forums writer, and public speaker in the Netherlands and Europe. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him as a Microsoft MVP for the past four years. On his personal blog (http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/) and BizTalk Administrators blog (http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/), he shares his knowledge about SOA, Azure (Service Bus), BizTalk Services, and BizTalk.

In addition to consulting, he is also an author and has been a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing. He has written the book BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and has technically reviewed the following books:

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns by Dan Rosanova

(MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide by Johan