This wiki article is an extension on the documentation of Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS): BizTalk Services: Provisioning Using Windows Azure Management Portal. This new service in Windows Azure offers B2B in the Cloud supporting EDI, Integration with SaaS solutions and create bridges between Line-Of-Business(LOB) systems and the Cloud through various protocols. To be able to do so you will to provision a BizTalk Service in Windows Azure first. Provisioning of a BizTalk Services requires you to perform a few steps by means of using the Windows Azure Management Portal. Windows Azure BizTalk Service is offered in four tiers:
Note: More specific details of the tiers can be found at BizTalk Services: Developer, Basic, Standard and Premium Editions Chart. Depending on the scenario you face within an enterprise (customer) and implementing a solution based upon BizTalk Services you will choose between basic, standard or premium. This comes with a different price tag depending if you choose pay-as-you-go or 6-12 month plan. See the pricing details. Interesting on this page is also that if you scroll down further you will find the FAQ.
To provision a Windows Azure BizTalk Service you will of course need a Windows Azure Subscription. You have different options to setup one by:
As soon as you have a subscription with Azure you can make use of the services it offers like Windows Azure SQL Database, Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS), and Windows Azure Storage, which you will need for provisioning of the BizTalk Service. You will need to create an Azure SQL database, a ACS namespace account and storage account:
The Windows Azure BizTalk Service is currently in preview. To work with the service you will to go to the preview features: https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures and click Try it out.
In the BizTalk Service Name you can specify an unique name that will added to default DNS .biztalk.windows.net. This will form a URL that can be used to access your BizTalk Service. By default the domain url is the name you give your BizTalk Service Name. You can specify a custom domain if you want. With the edition property you can choose the edition you want depending on your scenario (see Introduction). In case you are in the testing/development phase then you should choose Developer. With the region you can choose where to host your BizTalk Service depending on the geographic region your in. With the tracking database you can choose between two options:
Note: Both allow you to set maximum size, and both are billed on an amortized schedule, where your capacity is evaluated daily. Here you can also specify the collation you desire.
-pe : Marks the generated private key as exportable. This allows the private key to be included in the certificate. -r : Creates a self-signed certificate. -n : Specifies the subject's certificate name. This name must conform to the X.500 standard. The simplest method is to specify the name in double quotes, preceded by CN=; -e : Specifies the end of the validity period. -ss : Specifies the subject's certificate store name that stores the output certificate.
Now everything is specified you can click mark and provisioning of the BizTalk Service will start.
After the provisioned of the BizTalk Service you can register it in the BizTalk Service management portal, which is a Silverlight portal that will be there during the preview. By clicking on the Manage button you will be taken to the Silverlight portal.
On this portal, you have will have to specify three settings:
For documentation on BizTalk Services see Windows Azure BizTalk Services documentation. In case you want to start creating BizTalk Services applications then you need to install BizTalk Services SDK (See Installing the Windows Azure BizTalk Services SDK - June 2013 Preview) on your machine. Another area where you can find a fair amount of Windows Azure BizTalk Services related articles is the Windows Azure BizTalk Services resources on the TechNet Wiki.
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