Last year, we ran a series of BizTalk server tips that were curated out of our own experience and from our friends from the Integration MVP Community. The tips were created as individual blogs posts by Ricardo Torre over a period of 30 days. This blog post will serve as a table of contents to access each blog post. We have also made these tips available as an eBook (Available here) that can come in handy when required.
Table of Contents
Tip #1: Take advantage of Multi MessageBox Configuration
Tip #2: Efficient Host Separation
Tip #3: BAM lightweight tracking
Tip #4: Minimize persistence points
Tip #5: Health Check with Message Box Viewer
Tip #6: Choose robust adapters
Tip #7: Performance Testing is key
Tip #8: Package all your resources into MSI
Tip #9: Monitor performance SLAs with BAM
Tip #10: Build your custom pipelines with components using default properties
Tip #11: Create security boundaries
Tip #12: Review the performance of your environment regularly
Tip #13: Cluster host instances with adapter like FTP or POP3
Tip #14: Use the Business Rule Engine to implement Business Logic
Tip #15: Split big messages in the receive pipeline
Tip #16: Use Visual Studio for functional and load testing
Tip #17: Use fast disks for your BizTalk Database subsystem
Tip #18: Cluster the Master Secret Server
Tip #20: Use SSO as the application configuration store
Tip #21: Plan your Backup and DR strategy
Tip #22: Use Webgarden for IIS scalability
Tip #23: Configure and activate the DTA Purge and Archive Job
Tip #24: Maintain you Message Box efficiently
Tip #25: Consider to prefer XSLT in maps
Tip #26: Test 100% of your code
Tip #27: Implement a Enterprise Service Bus using the ESB Toolkit
Tip #28: Avoid Orchestrations when possible