Revision #4

Roles and Responsibilities

BizTalk 2010 Administration is a team effort. It involves the BizTalk Server Administrator, BizTalk Applications Administrators, DBA’s, System Administrators, BizTalk Developers, and Business Analysts.

All Roles require a solid understanding of how BizTalk 2010 works and how it can be utilized to solve current and future needs.

They should be familiar with the following:

• BizTalk 2010 in the Enterprise
• BizTalk Roles and Responsibilities
• Understanding the Message Bus
• Business Rules Engine (BRE)
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Single Sign-On Services (SSO)
• Pipelines and Components
• WCF LOB Adapters
• WCF Services
• Design Patterns and Practices
• BizTalk 2010 Enterprise Service Bus 2.1
• The BizTalk Server Environment
• The BizTalk Project
• BizTalk Operations
• Deployment and Managing BizTalk Applications
• Application Lifecycle Management with BizTalk Server 2010
• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 1.2

BizTalk 2010 Administrator Role

The BizTalk 2010 Administrator has overall responsibility for the BizTalk 2010 Server Environment.

Responsibilities:

The following are some of the key responsibilities.

Installing BizTalk 2010

• Single Server environment
• Multi-server environment
• Virtual Machine environment

Configuration

• Configure BizTalk Server for single server environments
• Configure BizTalk Server for multi-server environments
• Configure BizTalk Server for Virtual Machine environments

BizTalk Hosts

• Creating Hosts
• Managing Hosts

BizTalk Host Instances

• Creating and configuring Host Instances

BizTalk Adapters

• Installing Adapters
• Installing adapter prerequisites
• Configuring Adapter prerequisites
• Assigning Host Instances to Adapters

Routine Performance Checklists

• Routine Maintenance Checklists
• Weekly Action Items

Maintaining the BizTalk Group

• Operational Readiness Checklists

Security and SSO

• Security Policies
• BAM Security
• BRE Security
• Using SSO Affiliate Applications
• Managing SSO Affiliate Applications

Disaster Recovery

• Creating a disaster recovery plan
• Planning a disaster recovery test
• Implementing a disaster recovery test

Deploying and Managing BizTalk Applications

• Generating MSI packages
• Generating Binding Files
• Importing MSI packages
• Importing Binding Files
• Port configuration
• Adapter configuration
• WCF-Adapter configuration
• Deployment validation
• Documenting Deployments

Business Rules Engine (BRE)

• Publishing BRE Artifacts
• Deploying BRE Artifacts
• Tracking

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

• Installing and Configuring BAM for single server environments
• Installing and Configuring BAM for multi-server environments
• Installing and Configuring BAM for Virtual Machine environments
• Deploying BAM Applications
• Managing BAM Applications
• BAM Management
• Managing the BAM Portal
• Creating and managing security
• Monitoring BAM

Change Management for BizTalk

• Change Management Documentation
• The approval process

The Performance Lab

• End to end performance testing
• Creating a performance lab.
• Running a performance lab.

Performance Optimization

• Performance Counters
• Host Throttling

Monitoring

• Monitoring Techniques
• WMI
• Tools

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

• Planning
• Installation
• Configuration
• Administration

BizTalk Database Administration

• Configuring the SQL Agents
• Monitoring the SQL Agent Jobs

Enterprise Service Bus 2.1

• Installing the ESB Toolkit 2.1
• Configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.1
• Deploying the ESB Application and Services
• Installing the ESB Portal
• Managing the ESB Portal
• ESB Portal Security
• ESB Fault Management
• Creating Fault Subscriptions
• Integrating the ESB with SCOM
• Monitoring

IIS Administration

• Managing IIS on BizTalk
• Creating Application Pools
• Security
• ESB Services Management

Documenting your BizTalk Environments

• Hardware Summary Diagram
• BizTalk Server Configuration
• Documenting BizTalk Applications

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting techniques

Third-Party Tools

• Installing
• Configuring
• Usage