2157 - Developing E-Business Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners though orchestration in a highly flexible and highly automated manner.

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Describe the core features of BizTalk Server 2004 and how messaging and orchestration services work
• Create and configure schemas
•  Create a schema map
• Configure BizTalk messaging to route and process messages
• Deploy and test a BizTalk solution
• Track BizTalk message activity
• Create a BizTalk orchestration
• Create business transactions
• Consume and publish Web services
• Integrate business rules
• Integrate business rules
• Integrate human workflow services and manage business processes.

Module 1: Introduction to BizTalk Server 2004
This module explains how BizTalk provides a development and execution environment that makes it easier to orchestrate dynamic business processes within and between organizations.

Lessons
• What Is BizTalk Server 2004?
• BizTalk Server Services and Tools
• What is New in BizTalk Server 2004?

Practices
• Northwind Traders Case Study
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Identify the core features of BizTalk Server and how it fits into the overall suite of Microsoft e-business solutions products.
• Describe the functions of the BizTalk messaging and orchestration services.
 
Module 2: Creating and Configuring BizTalk Schemas
This module explains how BizTalk relies on the use of structured documents for every part of its implementation.

Lessons
• Introduction to BizTalk Schemas
• Creating BizTalk Schemas
 
Lab 2A: Creating BizTalk Schemas
• Creating a New BizTalk Project
• Creating an XML Schema Using the BizTalk Editor
• Promoting Schema Properties
• Creating a Flat File Schema Using the BizTalk Editor
• Validating Schemas and Generating Instance Messages
• Assigning a Strong Name to the Assemblies
• Building the Schema Project

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Explain the purpose and use of a BizTalk schema.
• Create BizTalk schemas by using the BizTalk Editor.

Module 3: Creating a Schema Map
This module explains how to use BizTalk Mapper to create and work with BizTalk maps. You will learn how to add functoids to a map, and then how to compile and test a map.

Lessons
• Introduction to BizTalk Maps
• Creating BizTalk Maps

Lab 3A Creating a Schema Map
• Creating a Schema Map using BizTalk Mapper
• Adding Functoids to a Map
• Validating and Testing the Map
• Building the Schema Map Project
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the purpose and use of BizTalk maps.
• Create a map by using BizTalk Mapper.
 
Module 4: Configuring BizTalk Messaging
This module explains how BizTalk messaging provides a number of ways to route, process, and send messages between business processes.

Lessons    
• Introduction to Messaging          
• Enabling Message Routing
• Creating Receive and Send Pipelines

Lab 4A: Enabling Message Routing
• Create a Receive Port and a Receive Location
• Create Send Ports and Define Message Filters
• Start the Send Ports and Test the Configuration

Lab 4B: Creating a Custom Encryption Pipeline
• Configuring BizTalk Host and Group Security Settings
• Creating a Custom Send Pipeline
• Building and Deploying the Pipeline Project
• Modify Send and Receive Ports
• Testing the Send Pipeline Solution
• Creating a Custom Receive Pipeline
• Building and Deploying the Receive Pipeline Project
• Testing the Receive Pipeline Solution

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Enable message routing to forward incoming messages directly to appropriate send ports, based on each message's content.
• Create both receive pipelines and send pipelines to process messages.

Module 5: Creating a BizTalk Orchestration
This module explains how to orchestrate dynamic business processes both within and between organizations.

Lessons
• Introduction to BizTalk Orchestration
• Creating an Orchestration
• Working with Orchestration Shapes

Lab 5A: Creating and Debugging an Orchestration
• Adding Schemas and Maps to the Messaging Project
• Creating an Orchestration
• Building and Deploying the Orchestration Project
• Starting and Testing the Orchestration
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe how BizTalk orchestration works.
 
Module 6: Deploying and Testing a BizTalk Solution
This module explains how to install the assemblies (such as maps, schemas, orchestrations, and pipelines) that you create for a BizTalk application on the BizTalk Server computers that will host the application.

Lessons
• Preparing to Deploy a BizTalk Solution
• Using BizTalk Deployment Tools

Lab 6A: Creating a Deployment Package
• Create a Deployment Project
• Install the Deployment Package and Test the Solution
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Identify the tasks that you must perform before deploying a solution.
• Use BizTalk deployment tools to deploy a solution.

Module 7: Tracking BizTalk Message Activity
This module explains how the Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) tool provides a means of tracking business activity even for those users who have no deep technical knowledge of BizTalk Server, while at the same time making it possible for more technically informed users to access the details necessary for problem solving and for the optimization of business processes.

Lessons
• What is Health and Activity Tracking

Lab 7A: Tracking Messages Using HAT
• Tracking a Message

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Define message tracking concepts.
• Identify job roles that can use HAT.
• Explain the features and capabilities of HAT.
• Identify the types of events and data that can be tracked.
• Track and view message activity.
• Use the Orchestration Debugger to track workflow.
• Configure a HAT administration client.
• Secure access to HAT data.

Module 8: Working with Orchestration Shapes
This module explains how to use orchestration shapes to create an automated business process using flow shapes, nested shapes, exception-handling shapes, as well as how to create expressions and orchestration variables and types.

Lessons
• Working with Orchestration Shapes

Lab 8A: Working with Orchestration Shapes
• Adding Schemas and Maps to the Messaging Project
• Building an Orchestration
• Building and Deploying the Orchestration Project
• Starting and Testing the Orchestration

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Work with orchestration shapes.
• Configure orchestration messages.
• Configure message correlation.
• Configure orchestrations to use expressions.
 
Module 9: Creating Business Transactions
This module explains how orchestration provides a transactional programming model that includes support for both atomic and long-running transactions, as well as nested orchestrations, exception handling, and methods for recovering from failed transactions.

Lessons
• Creating a Transaction
• Adding Compensation and Handling Exceptions
 
Lab 9A: Creating Transactions
• Configuring Orchestration Properties and Variables
• Create and Configure Transaction Shapes
• Building and Deploying the Orchestration Project
• Starting and Testing the Orchestration
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Create both atomic and long-running transactions.
• Add error handling and compensation code to orchestrations.
 
Module 10: Consuming and Publishing Web Services
This module explains how Web services provide a standardized mechanism for flexibly conducting e-business by communicating across disparate back-end systems.

Lessons
• Consuming a Web Service
• Publishing Web Services

Lab 10A: Consuming a Web Service
• Adding a Web Reference to a Project
• Creating a Map
• Modifying the Orchestration
• Building and Deploying the Orchestration Project
• Starting and Testing the Orchestration

Lab 10B: Publishing a Web Service
• Configuring Orchestration Properties
• Creating the Orchestration to be Published
• Building and Deploying the Project
• Running the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard
• Starting and Testing the Orchestration

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Call a Web service from within an orchestration.
• Publish an orchestration or a schema as a Web service.
 
Module 11: Integrating Business Rules
This module explains how the BizTalk Server 2004 Business Rule Engine allows business users to create policies containing rule sets which they can use to process documents.

Lessons
• Introduction to Business Rules
• Developing a Rules-based Application

Lab 11A: Integrating Business Rules
• Defining Business Rules
• Calling Business Rules from within an Orchestration
• Building and Deploying the Business Rules Project
• Starting and Testing the Business Rules
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Define the terminology and functions for business rules.
• Develop an orchestration that calls the Business Rule Engine.
 
Module 12: Monitoring Business Activity
This module explains how to track and manage rules, policies, agreements, and other information about your trading partners.

Lessons
• Monitoring Business Activity

Lab 12A: Enabling Business Activity Monitoring
• Configuring the Business Activity Model (BAM) Microsoft Excel Template
• Configuring Dimensions and Measures
• Deploying the BAM View
• Using the Tracking Profile Editor
• Running the OrderProcess Application and Examining the Tracking Results

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Monitor and gather information about business process activity using BAM.
 
Module 13: Integrating with Trading Partners
This module explains how to track and manage rules, policies, agreements, and other information about your trading partners.

Lessons
• Managing Trading Partner Relationships
• Integrating Trading Partners

Lab 13A: Enabling Business Partner Integration
• Creating the Logical Port Types
• Creating Role Links
• Configuring Orchestration to use the Business Relationship
• Implementing the Behavior for the Order Process
• Building and Deploying the Order Process Project
• Registering the BizTalk Server with Business Activity Services
• Creating the Seller and Buyer Profiles
• Creating and Activating the Business Relationship between the "Seller" (Contoso, Ltd) and "Buyer" (Northwind Traders)
• Creating Receive Ports and Starting the Orchestration
• Running the Order Process Scenario
 
After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Manage trading partner information by using Business Activity Services (BAS).
• Integrate trading partners into business processes.

This course is intended for individuals who are new to BizTalk Server 2004. However, individuals are expected to have experience using Visual Studio .NET. Typical job roles include: Visual Basic and C# Application Developers and Enterprise Application Integration Developers.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• At least two years of experience developing distributed applications (Microsoft Visual Basic, C, Java)
• Familiarity with systems integration and Web services terminology and concepts
• Familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
• Working knowledge of XML
• Experience with prior versions of BizTalk Server is not required