Auckland Connected Systems User Group

1. Auckland Connected Systems User Group Thursday, 22 January 2009, 6:00p.m. Schedule 6 – 6:15 : Drinks 6:15-6:45~ : New Capabilities of BizTalk 2009 – Thiago Almeida 7:00-7:30~ : BizTalk ESB Guidance 2.0 – Kevin Gock 7:20-? – Giveaways, Pizza, drinks http://www.acsug.co.nz

2. Auckland Connected Systems User Group What’s on with the user group? Invite only OzTalk – shared mailing list with Sydney BTUG, Brisbane BTUG, South Africa BTUG, Phoenix CSDUG, and growing! ‘CSD Bits’ folder on Live Mesh Next meeting in February (Oslo? WCF?) Wellington BTUG? - Ryan CrawCour Email admin@acsug.co.nz for more info http://www.acsug.co.nz

3. New Capabilities of Thiago Almeida http://connectedthoughts.wordpress.com

4. Agenda • BizTalk Roadmap • Platform Support • Developer and Team Productivity • SOA & Web Services • Business to Business Integration • Device Connectivity • Other Changes • Deprecated / Removed Features • Questions?

5. BizTalk Roadmap • BizTalk Server 2009 RTM First Half of 2009 ~ • Ship Rhythm of releases roughly every 2 years

6. BizTalk Roadmap – Future releases • Developer productivity enhancements. Will Eddie Churchill’s mapper and solution designer ever make it?  • LOB systems • legacy systems • smart devices (RFID) • B2B integration (SWIFT, EDI, etc.) • Low-latency messaging • ESB Guidance • Real-time business event visibility through BI/BAM Enhancements • Integration with the latest new platform capabilities

7. Platform Support • Inherited Benefits: • Modular, minimal installation • Improved network performance and control • Improved high availability features • Enhanced administration and management with Server Manager and PowerShell • BizTalk WMI classes - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560069.aspx • Powershell Provider for BT - http://biztalkmessages.vansplunteren.net/powershell-provider-for-biztalk/ • Enhanced Virtualization with Hyper-V http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/why-upgrade.aspx

8. Platform Support • BizTalk and SQL fully supported • Enlightened guest O/S • 4 processor support in the guest OS • ~ 75% of a physical server performance • reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure • BizTalk Hyper-V guide and post: • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768518.aspx • http://www.modhul.com/2008/12/17/hyper-v-dramatically-lowers-the-price-point-for-biztalk-2009/

9. Platform Support • Better manageability and scalability • Enables an optimized virtual SQL Server implementation • Improved performance (especially for 64bit) • BAM enhancements • SQL Server 2005 also supported • Notification Services only on SQL 2005

10. Developer and Team Productivity • BizTalk project now a part of Team Foundation Server - no additional effort required to use the benefits of TFS (specially automated builds with MSBuild) • New “Project Build” component on BizTalk install to build BT solutions without visual studio • No more “Build” project build type (only debug and release) • All properties of maps and schemas are on the properties windows (no extra windows necessary)

11. Developer and Team Productivity • UnitTest support for BizTalk artifacts • Built in unit test functionality at a granular artifact level (pipeline, map, schema). Pretty basic in Beta, hopefully will improve • See Michael Stephenson’s testing guidance for BT including BT 2009 testing: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/12/12/127828.aspx • Map debugging (XSLT debugger integration)

12. Developer and Team Productivity • Easier access to generated sources for Orchestration debugging • Look under \obj\Debug\BizTalk\Xlang for Orchestrations C# code • All new bindings in .NET 3.5 SP1 available in WCF Custom Adapter • For example BasicHttpContextBinding to communicate context to a WF service • Install Microsoft .NET Services and watch the list grow

13. Agenda • BizTalk Roadmap • Platform Support • Developer and Team Productivity • SOA & Web Services • Business to Business Integration • Device Connectivity • Other Changes • Deprecated / Removed Features • Questions?

14. SOA & Web Services • Web Services Registry UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, Integration) • v3.0 now with BizTalk, moving from Windows Server to BizTalk • Check the ESB Guidance v2.0 for examples – Kevin to talk more abut UDDI

15. SOA & Web Services • Enhanced Business Activity Monitoring • Support for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unified Dimensional Model cubes • Scalable real-time aggregations which enhances support for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007. • Enhanced Enterprise Service Bus Guidance (ESB) • Kevin will tell you all about it later tonight!

16. Business to Business Integration • EDI • Control of envelope headers • Automatic rollover of control numbers • Configurable content delimiter character • Support for multiple batches per party • Updated reporting to cover all new features • AS2 • Support for multiple message attachments • Configurable message auto-resend • Filename is preserved end-to-end • Updated reporting to cover all new features • Drummond re-certification • Updated SWIFT Support • SWIFTReady Financial EAI Gold certification

17. Business to Business Integration • WCF based Line of Business Adapters • LOB Adapters SDK upgraded to latest platform • Additional improvements have been made to the existing set of adapters • Oracle DB/SAP/Siebel • Two new adapters: • Oracle E-Business Suites • SQL Server (much improved over the existing SQL adapter)

18. Business to Business Integration • Host Integration Server 2009 & BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems (BAHS) 2.0 • Currently beta on the Connect website https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=66 • New WCF WebSphere MQ channel to integrate directly with WebSphere MQ • New WCF Service for Host Applications has been added to expose the traditional Transaction Integrator to .NET Framework developers • Support for the most recent versions of CICS, IMS, CICS HTTP transport, DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database, and WebSphere MQ

19. Device Connectivity • RFID 1.1 • BizTalk RFID extended to Mobile Devices • For BT09 and BT06R2 • Runs on handhelds and forklift readers • Integrates with BizTalk Server • Support for key industry standards • Enables using new readers with LLRP (Low Level Reader Protocol) • Machine readable tag data standards (TDT for EPC) • Web Services for device management and Discovery, Configuration, Initialization (DCI)

20. Agenda • BizTalk Roadmap • Platform Support • Developer and Team Productivity • SOA & Web Services • Business to Business Integration • Device Connectivity • Other Changes • Deprecated / Removed Features • Question?

21. Other Changes • Messaging • Recoverable interchange (XMLValidator, map – SuspendMessageOnMappingFailure property) • Choose the transaction isolation level in the WCF-Custom Send Adapter • Administration • Two new query types on HAT for tracked message events and tracked service events

22. Deprecated Features • VS ExplorerUI (BizTalk Explorer) • Web Services Publishing wizard (ASMX) • Line of Business Adapters for SAP/Oracle DB/Siebel • SQL Server Adapter

23. Removed Features • Base EDI Adapter (Covast) • BTS Accelerator for HIPAA (exists as EDI feature) • Web Services Enhancements adapter (WSE) • Human Workflow Services (HWS) • Business Activities Services (BAS) • Health and Activity Tracking Tool • MSMQt Adapter • BTSDeploy.exe Utility

24. Demo!

25. Questions?

26. Thank you! Thiago Almeida http://connectedthoughts.wordpress.com