BizTalk Server Platform Updates

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Over the past few months we’ve seen an incredible wave of new platform products and technologies including Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You may remember that in the past BizTalk Server has updated features to support the most recent platform releases. With BizTalk Server 2006 once the RTM versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 were released, we did final testing and sent a new version of BizTalk Server out the door.

Based on feedback from customers and partners, we are planning to do the same thing this time around to follow closely on the heels of this latest platform wave. Once SQL Server 2008 (the final of the three to be released) becomes generally available, we will follow with an updated version of BizTalk Server designed for the latest versions of Windows Server, the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. This will mean that BizTalk Server customers will continue to take full advantage of the platform’s latest improvements including: scalability for mission-critical workloads, improved support for next-generation web and service oriented applications, improved virtualization support and better business insight through Office.

We are also taking the opportunity as part of this BizTalk Server release to deliver additional customer-requested capabilities for our core SOA infrastructure. We will give more updates on specific features in the coming months, but at a high level we are planning some new investments in the release that includes:

  • New web service registry capabilities with support for UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) version 3.0

  • Enhanced service enablement of applications (through new and enhanced adapters for LOB applications, databases, and legacy/host systems)

  • Enhanced service enablement of “edge” devices through BizTalk RFID Mobile

  • Enhanced interoperability and connectivity support for B2B protocols (like SWIFT, EDI, etc)

  • SOA patterns and best practices guidance to assist our customer’s implementations

To ensure existing BTS applications continue to run without changes, we are taking an incremental approach and limiting the changes to the items listed above. Because this release build on existing bits, the name of this release will be BizTalk Server 2006 R3. Refreshing the bits (instead of applying a large Service Pack) provides for the best update experience.You should expect to see a CTP of BizTalk Server 2006 R3 later this year (with an RTM planned in H1 CY09).

Stay tuned for an update in the coming weeks! See you @ TechEd.

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  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    PingBack from http://seroter.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/next-version-of-biztalk-server-announced/

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    A number of you (my customers) have asked about the support of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the 2008 wave

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Official news about the next release of BizTalk Server has been released on Steve Martins blog here with

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    In an earlier post I wrote about Microsoft researching possibilities for BizTalk Server 2006 supporting

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Steve Martin vient d'annoncer la sortie d'une release 3 pour BizTalk pour mi-2009, avec des compléments

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Nice to see the long awaited integration of VS2008 and BTS2006. Good news.

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be available...

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Voici une annonce qui fait plaisir de bon matin ! BizTalk Server 2006 R3 RTM pour le premier semestre

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Have you heard? Biztalk 2006 R3 has been announced ...

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Microsoft announced a new release for BizTalk, and it's an R3 release. Major investments for this

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    The next version of Biztalk (Biztalk Server 2006 R3) was just announced. More details can be found in

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Steve Martin som er product manager for divisjonen for Connected System, annonserte i dag (23. april)

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced Today, Steve Martin announced in his post BizTalk Server Platform Updates

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    E' stato annunciato da Steven Martin e sul blog del team di BizTalk il prossimo rilascio della versione

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    So what you are saying is no Windows Server 2008 support until 2009?

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    A new release of BizTalk 2006 in the make: BizTalk Server 2006 R3!

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    Just in case you haven't heard from every other BizTalk blogger, BizTalk Server 2006 R3 has been announced.

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    BizTalk 2006 R3 - Microsoft's next release - is expected to more closely align with Windows Server, SQL

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2008
    Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's Connected

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2008
    Fanstastic!!! Bring on the Betas!!! Where/When?? How?

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2008
    In case you haven't heard, it was formally announced that a new release of BizTalk Server 2006 is

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2008
    BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2008
    I have two things to be excited about today. First, we’ve finally had some sunny spring days in Seattle

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2008
    Steven Martin announced another important update for our customers & partners: we’ve come to an agreement

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2008
    We get a reasonable amount of feedback from BizTalk users that would like a more seamless experience

  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2008
    環境： Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 (または WSS 3.0) BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    In the last few weeks, we’ve seen Microsoft announce several Interop-related work that the company is

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    In the last few weeks, we’ve seen Microsoft announce several Interop-related work that the company is

  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2008
    Ha még valakihez még nem jutott volna el a hír, az MS bejelentette a BizTalk 2006 R3-at. Ami igazából

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2008
    I've just had my longest vacations in the last 4 or 5 years. And it was great :-). The week started off

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2008
    Hello, I’m Charles (Charley) Fichter , a Snr. Solutions Architect on the GISV Architecture team. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2008
    Sounds familiar? Well, it seems to be the theme for Microsoft as well. A slew of new technologies have

  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2008
    Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), announcing an update of the BizTalk Server for the 2008 Wave technologies. It will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. It will also

  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2008
    Steve ha pubblicato nuovi aggiornamenti riguardo le nuove features della futura R3. direi che in generale

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2009
    BizTalk Server 2006 R3 Announced

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2009
    The comment has been removed