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Microsoft Course 2933 - Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006— A 5-Day Course

Course Synopsis

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.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, delegates should 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.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for solution architects and developers who are responsible for developing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 business process and integration solutions.

Course Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must:

  • 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

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

There is no Microsoft Certified Professional exam associated with this course.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Central London — £995 (+VAT)

  • 16–20 Jun 2008
  • 30 Jun–4 Jul 2008
  • 18–22 Aug 2008
  • 6–10 Oct 2008

Leeds — £995 (+VAT)

  • 19–23 May 2008
  • 18–22 Aug 2008

Sunderland — £995 (+VAT)

  • 14–18 Jul 2008
  • 22–26 Sep 2008
  • 24–28 Nov 2008

Glasgow — £995 (+VAT)

  • 1–5 Sep 2008

Outline Course Contents

Module 1: Introduction to BizTalk Server 2006

This module describes the BizTalk message processing architecture and identifies the new features and toolsets provided in BizTalk Server 2006.

  • What Is BizTalk Server 2006?
  • What's New in BizTalk Server 2006?
  • The BizTalk Server Development Environment
  • Lab: Examining a BizTalk Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe common BizTalk Server 2006 scenarios and how BizTalk Server 2006 works to process messages
  • Describe improvements and new features in BizTalk Server 2006
  • Identify the tools provided in the BizTalk Server 2006 development environment

Module 2: Creating Schemas

This module explains how to use BizTalk development tools to create XML and flat-file schemas.

  • Introduction to BizTalk Schemas
  • Creating XML and Flat-File Schemas
  • Lab: Creating BizTalk Schemas

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe how BizTalk uses XML and identify the types of XML message types supported by BizTalk
  • Create an XML schema by using the BizTalk Editor and create a flat-file schema by using the Flat-File Schema Wizard

Module 3: Creating Maps

This module explains how to use BizTalk Mapper to create and work with BizTalk maps. Students will learn how to add functoids to a map and how to compile and test a map.

  • Creating a BizTalk Map
  • Configuring Basic Functoids
  • Configuring Advanced Functoids
  • Lab: Creating a BizTalk Map

Describe how maps are used by BizTalk and how to use the BizTalk Mapper to create a map.

  • Manipulate data by using functoids and add functoids to a map
  • Perform advanced mapping operations by using advanced functoids

Module 4: Deploying a BizTalk Project

This module explains how to deploy a BizTalk project and how to view deployed assemblies.

  • Introduction to Deployment
  • Deploying an Assembly
  • Lab: Deploying an Assembly

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how BizTalk deployment works and describe the steps required to deploy a BizTalk assembly
  • Deploy an assembly by using Visual Studio and view deployed assemblies by using the Assembly viewer

Module 5: Routing BizTalk Messages

This module explains how to enable message routing and how to use BizTalk tools to monitor live and archived message activity.

  • Introduction to Message Routing
  • Configuring Message Routing
  • Tracking Message Activity
  • Lab: Enabling Message Routing

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe how BizTalk messages are routed by various BizTalk components
  • Configure BizTalk message routing

Module 6: Creating Pipelines

This module explains how to create and configure receive and send pipelines for processing messages.

  • Introduction to Pipelines
  • Building a Pipeline
  • Lab: Creating Pipelines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how pipelines process messages
  • Use the Pipeline Designer to create a pipeline

Module 7: Integrating with Adapters

This module explains how to configure common adapters to enable BizTalk integration.

  • Introduction to BizTalk Adapters
  • Configuring a BizTalk Adapter
  • Lab: Integrating with Adapters

Module 8: Creating a BizTalk Orchestration

This module explains how BizTalk orchestration services work and shows how to create a BizTalk orchestration. Students will also learn how to use debugging tools to monitor a running orchestration.

  • Introduction to BizTalk Orchestration
  • Building an Orchestration
  • Monitoring Orchestrations
  • Lab: Creating a BizTalk Orchestration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how BizTalk orchestrations are used to represent a business process
  • Use the BizTalk Orchestration Designer to define a business process

Module 9: Automating Business Processes

This module explains how to use orchestration shapes to represent the logical flow of an orchestration. Students will also learn how to manipulate data and manage exceptions within an orchestration.

  • Controlling the Flow of an Orchestration
  • Configuring Orchestrations
  • Lab: Automating a Business Process

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Use orchestration flow control shapes and create modular orchestrations
  • Configure orchestration expressions, message correlation, and exception handling

Module 10: Creating Transactional Business Processes

This module explains how to create orchestrations that support atomic and long-running transactions. Students will also learn how to create nested orchestrations, configure exception handling, and recover from failed transactions.

  • Introduction to Transactions
  • Configuring Transactions
  • Lab: Configuring a Transactional Business Process

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how transactions work and how persistence points affect the performance of a BizTalk orchestration
  • Create and configure long-running and atomic transactions

Module 11: Deploying and Managing BizTalk Applications

This module explains how to create and deploy BizTalk applications in a production environment. Students will also learn how to manage running applications.

  • Introduction to BizTalk Applications
  • Deploying an Application
  • Lab: Deploying a BizTalk Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how BizTalk artifacts can be grouped as applications to simplify deployment and management tasks
  • Deploy an application as a Microsoft Installer (MSI) package and create and import binding files

Module 12: Integrating with Web Services

This module explains how to consume a Web service from an orchestration and how to publish an orchestration as a Web service.

  • Introduction to Web Services Integration
  • Consuming a Web Service
  • Publishing an Orchestration As a Web Service
  • Lab: Consuming and Publishing Web Services with BizTalk

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how Web service integration works in BizTalk
  • Configure an orchestration to consume a Web service
  • Publish an orchestration as a Web service

Module 13: Integrating Business Rules

This module explains how to configure business rules and how to call a business rule from within an orchestration.

  • Introduction to Business Rules
  • Integrating Business Rules
  • Lab: Integrating Business Rules

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how business rule integration works in BizTalk
  • Compose, publish, and deploy business rules

Module 14: Monitoring Business Activity

This module explains how to configure business rules and how to call a business rule from within an orchestration.

  • Introduction to Business Activity Monitoring
  • Enabling Business Activity Monitoring
  • Lab: Monitoring Business Activity

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how BizTalk enables business users to monitor business activity
  • Configure BizTalk to enable Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Module 15: Integrating with Trading Partners

This module explains how to track and manage rules, policies, agreements, and other information about trading partners.

  • Enabling Trading Partner Integration
  • Lab 15: Enabling Business Partner Integration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how BizTalk supports trading partner integration and identify methods for integrating trading partners
  • Manage trading partner information and configure an orchestration to integrate trading partners into an existing business process

BizTalk Server training UK enquiries

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BizTalk Server training UK prices

For publicly scheduled training (individual places), see our UK training schedule.

In-house training for company groups is charged at a daily rate per group — see our In-House UK Training Guidelines.

Publicly Scheduled Training Locations

We currently run public training courses in the following locations:

  • London, UK
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  • Carshalton, Surrey, UK
  • Chester, North West, UK
  • Coventry, West Midlands, UK
  • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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  • Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
  • Reading, Berkshire, UK
  • Slough, Berkshire, UK
  • Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.

Please see the individual course outlines or our public training schedule for details.

In-house (on-site) training locations

We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.

Our In-house training guidelines outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at your location.


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