Introduction

This five-day 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.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• 1-2 years experience developing distributed applications.
• Background in Microsoft .NET Framework concepts and technology.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server.
• Working knowledge of XML.
• No prior BizTalk experience is necessary.

Outcomes

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the message processing architecture and the development environment provided by BizTalk Server 2006.
• Create XML and flat-file schemas.
• Create a BizTalk map and use functoids to manipulate data in a map.
• Deploy a BizTalk project and view deployed assemblies.
• Route messages based on the contents of a received message.
• Configure common adapters to enable BizTalk integration.
• Create an orchestration to represent a business process.
• Use orchestration shapes to define a detailed business process.
• Configure an orchestration for transactional business processing.
• Create, deploy, and manage a BizTalk application.
• Configure BizTalk to consume and publish Web services.
• Configure business rules and call a business rule from within an orchestration.
• Enable Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) functions for business users.
• Integrate trading partners into a business process.