Biztalk Installation Guide
Biztalk Installation Guide
In order to make Biztalk work properly, follow installations should be done in below order:
- SQL Server 2012 Express Edition: it is required to store all configuration information of Biztalk.
- Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition: it is required to develop custom applications running in
Biztalk server.
- Biztalk Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition: Biztalk Server software itself, and it will also create
templates for developing Biztalk applications in Visual Studio 2013.
To do these installations, user must log in with administrator account or account with administration
privileges.
Once the installation is complete, after everytime the server is restarted please ensure SQL Server service
and Biztalk service are still running.
1. Installation of SQL Server 2012 Express Edition
SQL Server 2012 Express can be downloaded freely from Microsoft web site. There are some options to
install and here demonstrates to install SQL Server 2012 Express with Advanced services like Reporting
Services, Full-Text search, SQL Management Studio,… (file name is SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe).
Visual Studio 2013 is required to develop Bizltalk applications and it can be downloaded freely as ISO
file from Microsoft web site.
- Mount the downloaded ISO file to a drive, go to that drive and double click on file
vs_community.exe to start the installation process.
- If a warning message comes up then just ignore it by clicking Continue button to continue.
- Click “I agree to the License Terms and Privacy Policy” and click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default, and click Install button to start installation process.
- Please wait while the installation process is going until it finishes.
- When it finishes, a reboot is required and you can do it by clicking the Restart Now button.
3. Installation of Biztalk Server 2012 R2
- Mount the ISO file to a drive, go to that drive and double click on file Setup.exe to start the
installation process.