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 infoadmin@acsug.co.nz 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 BizTalk Server 2000 BizTalk Server 2002 BizTalk Server 2004 BizTalk Server 2006 BizTalk Server 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009 BizTalk Server “7” BizTalk Server “8”

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. BizTalk Roadmap – Dublin and Oslo Oslo first wave: planned to ship the next version of WF,.Net framework 4.0, Visual studio 10 Oslo second wave: planned to ship repository, visual editor, process server (WF/WCF host only) Oslo third wave: planned to ship life cycle manager, BizTalk host(?) In Microsoft’s words: – BizTalk = Integration Server – Dublin = Application Server

8. Updated Platform Support Operating System – – Windows Server 2003 – Windows XP with Service Pack 3 – Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 Database – – SQL Server 2005 SP2 & SP3 Visual Studio 2008 SP1.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Platform Support

9. 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.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560069.aspx Powershell Provider for BT - http://biztalkmessages.vansplunteren.net/powershell- provider-for-biztalk/http://biztalkmessages.vansplunteren.net/powershell- provider-for-biztalk/ – Enhanced Virtualization with Hyper-V http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/why-upgrade.aspx Platform Support

10. – 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/ http://www.modhul.com/2008/12/17/hyper-v-dramatically-lowers-the-price-point- for-biztalk-2009/ Platform Support

11. – 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

12. 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)

13. 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 http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/ 2008/12/12/127828.aspx Map debugging (XSLT debugger integration)

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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!

18. 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

19. 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)

20. 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 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

21. 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)

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

23. 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

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

25. 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

26. Demo!

27. Questions?

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