BizTalk 2006 Documentation updated…..

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Hi,

This mail lists the documentation updates the BizTalk Server UA team has published
in the past three months. The updates are based on customer input that is gathered
through our documentation feedback mechanism, blogs, newsgroups, site visits, and
TAP participants. 

Thanks to everyone who is providing feedback and improving the customer experience!

Core Documentation | Download

The BizTalk Server 2006 Help is updated every two weeks and posted in downloadable
chm. format. Since RTM, we’ve addressed more than 350 documentation
bugs, the majority of which were requests for new content. Check out the following
new and updated topics!

%u00b7 Improvements to the Orchestrations help, including the following new topics:

• How to Use MessageBox Direct Bound Ports

• How to Use Partner Orchestration Direct Bound Ports

• How to Use Self-Correlating Direct Bound Ports

• Working with Direct Bound Ports in Orchestrations

• How to Debug Design Time Errors and Build Errors

• Writing Information to the Event Log

• Interactive Debugging of an Orchestration in HAT

• Tracking Orchestrations with HAT

• Working with the Orchestration Debugger

• How to Use Expressions to Transform Messages

• How to Create Role Links in Orchestrations

%u00b7 Improvements to the Business Rule Engine help, including the following new or
updated topics:

• Invoking Static Members of a Class

• Support for Generic Types and Generic Methods

• Accessing Nested Members of a Class

• Support for Type Casting

• Support for Class Inheritance in the Business Rule Engine

• Support for Nullable Types

• How to deploy policies (programmatically)

• Performance Considerations When Using the Rule Engine

%u00b7 Improvements to the SAP adapter help, which was integrated into the BTS06 collection:

• Added the “Architecture and Planning” section.

• Reinforced .NET Connector version requirements in the installation topic.

• Added “Enabling and Disabling SAP RFC and CPIC Trace” with additional details about
  CPIC trace (CPIC trace supports 4 different trace levels including none). Includes
  script per doc.

• Added ” How the Adapter Communicates Using RFCs and IDoc: SAP Connector for Microsoft
  .NET” section.

• In the “How to Troubleshoot the Adapter” topic, added section for transaction lock
  error.

• Modified the troubleshooting topic to mention SAP Monitoring area and SAP RFC testing.

• Added troubleshooting information for “BizTalk service is not receiving IDOC’s from
  the SAP system.”

%u00b7 More troubleshooting information!

• How to troubleshoot BTS administration, permissions, performance, adapters, dependencies,
  and configuration.

• How to capture a memory dump of a BTS processes.

• Which tools and utilities you should use for troubleshooting.

Updated Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Guides |  Download

The installation instructions explain how to install BizTalk Server 2006 on Windows
XP, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows Server 2003 in a single server or multiserver
environment.

Whitepapers

The following is a list of whitepapers that have been published since RTM.

• Developer’s
  Troubleshooting Guide

• Managing
  a Successful Performance Lab

• BizTalk
  Server 2006 Comparative Adapter Study

• SAP
  Adapter Labs

• Understanding
  the BizTalk Server WS-Addressing Helper

• Business
  Activity Monitoring (BAM) FAQ

• Getting
  Started Developing with BAM: EventStreams

• Improving
  Fault Tolerance in BizTalk Server 2006 by Using a Windows Server Cluster

• Sequential
  FIFO Message Processing and Delivery in BizTalk Server 2004

• Using
  the BizTalk Server WS-Addressing Helper

• Understanding
  Application Deployment and Upgrade using BizTalk Server 2006

• BizTalk
  Server Orchestrations FAQ

• Learn
  More about the BizTalk Message Queuing Adapter (MSMQT)

• Developing
  a Transactional BizTalk Adapter Using the Microsoft Base Adapter Classes

• Using
  Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite to Integrate BizTalk Server
  2006 with SAP ERP

Upcoming Themes for the Developer Center and TechCenter

Month

Dev Center

Tech Center

Nov

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Dec

Workflow Foundation

Business Activity Monitoring

Jan

Security

Security

Feb

Pipelines

Operations

March

Application Dev

Install/Config/Upgrade

Other Content

In addition to the fixes introduced, we have also been busy over the past few months
producing, updating, and publishing other valuable content. This includes:

%u00b7 BizTalk
Server 2006 Tutorials

%u00b7 BizTalk
Server 2006 PDF Help Files

%u00b7 Documentation
for the rules and messages of the BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer