Thursday, August 17, 2006

BizTalk Server 2006 Comparative Adapter Study

The whitepaper describes the results of a comparative adapter study—a set of tests that compared each adapter that ships with Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 against its BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 counterpart under identical conditions.
Also included are performance test results for the POP3 and Windows® SharePoint® Services adapters, which were not available for BizTalk Server 2004 SP1. The resulting data proves interesting from a solution design standpoint because understanding the performance of each adapter is critical when deciding which adapters to select to meet performance requirements. The test techniques used to arrive at the maximum sustainable throughput (MST) are described in detail, and recommendations for using and configuring specific adapters are provided.

Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FDAE55DB-184B-4D93-AD79-A113B5268EE2&displaylang=en

UK SDC BizTalk 2006 Documenter RELEASED

If you are looking for an automated tool that will help you in documentening your BizTalk Solution stop looking, the BizTalk 2006 Documenter will do the job.

The BizTalk 2006 Documenter Creates compiled help files for a given BTS 2006 installation. This tool can be run on an ad-hoc basis using the UI or from the command line as a post build/deploy task to create a compiled help file describing a BTS 2006 installation. It will compile: BTS Host configuration, Send/Receive port configuration, Orchestration diagrams, Schema and Map content, Pipeline process flow, Adapter configuration, Rule engine vocabularies and policies, More… and publish them as compiled help files. Optionally you can embed custom HTML content and custom descriptions for all BTS artifacts to produce a more customized look and feel to the CHM output.

The tool is publicly available and can be dowloaded from from http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=0690616f-838c-4583-a4c5-cecc5ac04dac