3. 333
BizTalk – the community
Books Blog Posts LinkedIn In production Customers Global 100
126 ~1.7 million 54,923 hits 2 decades >12,000 81%
4. 4
A lot of books over the last two decades
• Protocol specific books about EDI, HIPAA and HL7
• Performance
• Upgrading and installation
• Rumor has it that it’s not profitable for the authors, but they
continue to write them!
10. 10
Platform support
Product Version
Supported in
2016?
Supported in
2020?
Windows Desktop 8.1 Yes No
Windows Desktop 10 Yes Yes
Windows Server 2012 R2 Yes No
Windows Server 2016 Yes Yes
Windows Server 2019 No Yes
SQL Server 2014 Yes No
SQL Server 2016 Yes Yes
SQL Server 2019 No Yes
SQL Management 18.3 Yes Yes
Excel 2013 Yes No
Excel 2016 Yes Yes
Excel 2019 No Yes
Notification Services Database Mail Yes Yes
IIS 10 Yes Yes
SharePoint Services 2013 Yes No
SharePoint Services Online Yes Yes
SharePoint Services 2016 Yes Yes
.NET Framework 4.6.2 Yes No
.NET Framework 4.7 Yes Yes
.NET Framework 4.8 Yes Yes
Visual Studio 2015 Yes No
Visual Studio 2019 No Yes
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A little comparision
BizTalk Server 2004
The first version of BizTalk to use
.Net
Major change to the integration
landscape
First version that the ESB toolkit
was built on
BizTalk Server 2016
First version of BizTalk to support
Azure scenarios
BizTalk Server 2020
Taking all the Cumulative
updates and Feature packs
Simplifying the installation
process
12. 12
Lets look at BizTalk’s new features
Platform updates
Visual Studio 2019
Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10
SQL Server 2019, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 SP2
Office 2019, Office 2016
13. 13
Lets look at BizTalk’s new features
Analytics and VSTS
Analytics Operational Data Monitoring and Analytics.
Leveraging the power of Azure (Application Insight and Event Hub) for deep data storage
and Power BI for reporting and viewing of data.
Application Lifecycle Management
with VSTS
Using Visual Studio Team Services, you can define multi-server deployments of BizTalk
Server 2020, and then maintain those systems throughout the application lifecycle.
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Lets look at BizTalk’s new features
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/install-and-config-
guides/whats-new-in-biztalk-server-2020