BizTalk Administrators Guide
Introduction
BizTalk administrators play a crucial role in running and maintaining a BizTalk environment. They are responsible to deploy BizTalk environments and applications, monitoring, upgrades, migrations, and all other kinds of administrative tasks like backup/recovery, availability and so on. This article will provide an overview of all useful resources available for BizTalk Administrators.
Blogs
End of January 2012 a new blog was setup for BizTalk Administrators called BizTalkAdminsBlogging. This blog has currently eight contributors that frequently post stories. There are a couple more blogs of BizTalk professionals targeted towards BizTalk administrators:
- BizTalk Administrator Blog
- BizTorque.net
- BizTalk Administration and Troubleshooting
- BizTalk Tips & Things
TechNet Wiki
On the TechNet you can find numerous articles that can be related to BizTalk Administration:
- BizTalk Server 2010 - Tools
- BizTalk Server: Disaster Recovery
- BizTalk Monitoring Tools
- Administering BizTalk 2010 - Roles and Responsibilities
- BizTalk Server 2010: MSDTC
- Installing BizTalk Server 2010 in a Basic Multi-Computer Environment
- BizTalk Server 2010 Host Throttling
- BizTalk Server 2010: SQL Agent jobs
- BizTalk Server - Determine Version and Edition
- BizTalk Server - Host architecture
- BizTalk: List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions
- BizTalk Administrator Guidelines
- BizTalk Server: High Availability
- BizTalk Databases - Survival Guide
- BizTalk Health Check
- Microsoft BizTalk automatic throttling
- BizTalk Roles
- Recommendations for Installing, Sizing, Deploying, and Maintaining a BizTalk Server Solution
- BizTalk Administrator's Checklist Compiled by Microsoft BizTalk Support
- Common Issues and Resolutions with the BizTalk Server Administration Console
- BizTalk Server - Troubleshooting Problems with MSDTC
- Multiple Message Boxes in BizTalk (Scale out message box)
- BizTalk Server: Administrator Queries and Scripts
- Install and Configure BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) in a Multi-Computer Environment
- Business Activity Monitoring (BAM): Survival Guide
- BizTalk Server 2010: Enterprise SSO Survival Guide
- BizTalk Server 2010: PowerShell
- BizTalk Server 2010: Virtualization
- BizTalk Server 2010: Database BizTalkDTADb
- Listing of values for the /ADDLOCAL command when performing a silent installation of BizTalk Server 2010
- Installing and configuring BizTalk Server 2010 in a Standalone machine
- Install the BizTalk Server 2010 AppFabric Connect Feature
MSDN
Another good resource for BizTalk Administrators is of course MSDN, where you can find a lot of information:
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Operations Guide
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Performance Optimization Guide
White papers
There are a few white papers on BizTalk administration:
BizTalk Server Developer Center
At the BizTalk Server Developer Center, you can also find resources for BizTalk administrators. Although the title can be a little misleading as it may look like developer focused. However, you will find resources and information that is more administrator specific:
- General entry point home page of the Developer Center
- BizTalk Administrator's Check List Created by the BizTalk Support Team
- BizTalk Server Hotfixes and Updates
Training
There are two courses you can take that are targeted towards BizTalk Administrators:
- Quicklearn offers:
- Tord G. Nordahl (Bouvet ASA, Norway) offers:
There is currently no certification available for BizTalk Administrators. There is only exam 70-595 that test some administrative skills.
Virtual Labs
There is one virtual lab on BizTalk Administration:
- New Features for Deploying and Managing a BizTalk Application in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006
- BizTalk 2009: Deployment and Management
Web Casts
There are only a limited number of Web Casts that are useful for BizTalk Administrators:
- Creating a Highly Available BTS 09 Environment
- Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Server for Performance
- BizTalk Assessment and Architecture Review
On LinkedIn you can find groups targeted for BizTalk Administrators:
Other languages
These articles are also available in the following languages
See Also
Read suggested related topics:
Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.