Upgrading and Migrating to BizTalk Server 2016

There are a variety of considerations you'll need to take into account when migrating your solutions to BizTalk 2016. In this book, you'll find detailed information about how to migrate your components "as-is", as well as recompile them with the latest version of Visual Studio. You'll look at ways to improve your components pre-migration, as well as troubleshoot issues within these components. You'll learn how to make intelligent mapping updates, especially with XSLT, and how to simplify your overall architecture. Additionally, working with BizTalk 2016 in an Azure environment and building BizTalk Azure Services are covered.

Readers will look at migrating maps, orchestrations, .NET assemblies, database components, EDI parties and configurations, and other artifacts found in BizTalk solutions. They will also be able to quickly come to an understanding of what will be involved in a migration and what will be required for resourcing and costs associated with a migration. Readers will find information that will cover virtually every aspect of their upgrade to BizTalk 2016, and should come away with a simpler solution once that migration is complete.

Auteur

Mark Beckner, Inotek Founder, Colorado, USA; Dylan Jones, ZenDev Consulting Group.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Preparing for Your Upgrade 1

Migration Considerations 1

BizTalk 2016 Licensing and Installation 6

The Simple Standard Edition Solution 7

The Simple Multi-Server Enterprise Edition Solution 10

The Highly Available Enterprise Edition Solution with SQL Clustering 11

Notes on Web Services 11

Exercise: BizTalk 2016 Installation and Configuration 13

Installation 13

Configuration Options 14

Configuring Enterprise SSO 16

Configuring the BizTalk Group 17

Configuring the BizTalk Runtime 18

Configuring the Business Rules Engine 19

Configuring Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) 19

Configuring EDI and AS2 19

Notes on Configurations within a Multi-Server Environment 20

Notes on SQL Server Maintenance 22

Summary 23

Chapter 2: Migrating Your Solution 25

Planning Your Deployment 25

Manual Deployments 26

MSI Deployments 31

Exporting the MSI 32

Importing the MSI 38

Validating Your Deployment 43

Summary 45

Chapter 3: Visual Studio and Maps 47

Recompiling Your Code in Visual Studio 2015 47

Restructuring Your Code in Visual Studio 2015 53

Testing Upgraded Maps 55

Making Code Changes to Maps 56

Inline XSLT Basics 58

Passing Input Parameters to XSLT 65

Calling .NET Assemblies from XSLT 68

Summary 70

Chapter 4: Orchestrations and C# 71

Revisiting SQL Server Integrations 71

Simplifying SQL Server Integrations 77

SQL and XML 86

Oracle and XML 88

Revisiting WCF and SOAP Integrations 89

Summary 93 Chapter 5: Migrating to Azure 95

Hosted Azure Servers 95

Azure BizTalk Services 99

Developing and Deploying a BizTalk Azure Solution 99

Starting Your BizTalk Service 111

Monitoring Your Azure BizTalk Service 113

Summary 116

Appendix: Managing Your Migration 117

Creating a TFS Project 117

Agile, CMMI, and Scrum 122

Features, Requirements, and Tasks 125

Summary 135 Index 137