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 This 5-day, hands-on, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners through orchestration in a highly flexible and highly automated manner.
This course is intended for solutions architects and developers who are responsible for designing and developing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 e-business solutions.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have:
- Familiarity with systems integration and Web services terminology and concepts
- Familiarity with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET
- Working knowledge of XML
Course Outline
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.
- What Is BizTalk Server 2004?
- BizTalk Server Services and Tools
- What is New in BizTalk Server 2004?
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.
- Introduction to BizTalk Schemas
- Creating BizTalk Schemas
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.
- Introduction to BizTalk Maps
- Creating BizTalk Maps
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.
- Introduction to Messaging
- Enabling Message Routing
- Creating Receive and Send Pipelines
Module 5: Creating a BizTalk Orchestration
This module explains how to orchestrate dynamic business processes both within and between organizations.
- Introduction to BizTalk Orchestration
- Creating an Orchestration
- Working with Orchestration Shapes
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.
- Preparing to Deploy a BizTalk Solution
- Using BizTalk Deployment Tools
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.
- What is Health and Activity Tracking (HAT)
- Using HAT
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.
- Working with Orchestration Shapes
- Creating Expressions, Types and Variables
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.
- Creating a Transaction
- Adding Compensation and Handling Exceptions
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.
- Consuming a Web Service
- Publishing Web Services
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.
- Introduction to Business Rules
- Developing a Rules-based Application
Module 12: Monitoring Business Activity
This module explains how to track and manage rules, policies, agreements, and other information about your trading partners.
- Monitoring Business Activity
- Track and Manage Trading Partner Information
Module 13: Integrating with Trading Partners
This module explains how to track and manage rules, policies, agreements, and other information about your trading partners.
• Managing Trading Partner Relationships
• Integrating Trading Partners
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