BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced
One announcment people seem to have missed at PDC was BizTalk Server 2009 R2. Brian Loesgen has the whole scoop including these areas of enhancement:
- Platform Alignment - support for the following products and technologies:
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- Visual Studio 2010
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- Productivity Improvements
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- Single dashboard to apply and manage performance parameters
- Out-of-the-box support for Event Filtering and Delivery (RFID)
- PowerShell access to management tasks
- New System Center Operation Management SCOM Pack object model to better reflect BizTalk artifacts
- B2B Scenarios Made Easy
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- Mapper enhancements to make complex mapping easier to create and maintain
- FTPS to provide secure transactions between businesses
- Updated B2B accelerators for latest protocol versions
Platform alignment.
This is to be expected. BizTalk is built on the Microsoft stack, and the stack is continually evolving. As such, platform synchronization needs to happen in order to align with the latest release of the Visual Studio, Windows Server, SQL Server and the .NET framework itself.
