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.

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