Professional BizTalk is a 5 day hands-on course for senior developers and solution architects, providing you the knowledge and skills to effectively integrate systems, employees and trading partners through orchestration in a highly flexible and automated manner.

This course is based on the Microsoft Official Learning Product course 2933 Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006. The course has been designed for developers with 1-2 years experience developing distributed applications, knowledge of the .NET Framework concepts and technology. Attendees must have hands-on experience with Visual Studio 2005 with working knowledge of XML and SQL Server.

Course Outline

Introduction to BizTalk Server 2006	What's New in BizTalk 2006 The BizTalk Server Development Environment Examining BizTalk Applications
Creating Schemas	Introduction to BizTalk Schemas Creating XML and Flat- File schemas
Creating Maps	How to use BizTalk Mapper to create and work with BizTalk Maps Configuring Basic and Advanced Functoids Advanced mapping operations
Deploying a BizTalk Project	Introduction to deploying a BizTalk project Deploying an assembly using Visual Studio Creating Receive Ports and Locations and Creating send Ports
Routing BizTalk Messages	Introduction to Message Routing Configuring Message Routing Tracking Message Activity
Creating Pipelines	Create and Configure Receive and Send Pipelines for processing messages
Integrating with Adapters	Configure common adapters to enable BizTalk integration – protocol, data and application adapters
Creating a BizTalk Orchestration	Building and Monitoring BizTalk Orchestration services Using the BizTalk Orchestration Designer to define business process
Automating Business Process	Using Orchestration shapes to represent the logical flow of an Orchestration Manipulate Data and manage exceptions Controlling the flow and Configuring Orchestrations
Creating Transactional Business	Create and Configure long running and atomic transactions Configure exception handling and recover from failed Orchestrations
Deploying and Managing BizTalk Applications	Create and Deploy BizTalk Applications in a production environment using MSI
Integrating with Web Services	Consuming a Web Service Publishing an Orchestration as a Web Service
Integrating Business Rules	Configure and Integrate Business Rules from within an Orchestration Compose, Publish and Deploy Business Rules
Monitoring Business Activity	Configure BizTalk to enable Business Activity Monitoring
Integrating with Trading Partners	Configure an Orchestration to Use Role Links Track and Manage rules, policies, agreements and other information about trading partners

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Learn the essentials required to take advantage of the new capabilities in the latest upgrade to Microsoft's database management system.

Professional .NET

Our intensive .NET curriculum uses hands-on labs to teach experienced application developers the pillars of .NET 2.0 framework.

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Professional BizTalk

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