Hands-On Lab Outline

Exercise 1: Working with Schemas

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Creating a New BizTalk Project
• Exercise 2: Creating an XML Schema Using BizTalk Editor
• Exercise 3: Promoting Schema Properties
• Exercise 4: Creating a Flat File Schema Using the Flat File Schema Wizard
• Exercise 5: Validating Schemas and Generating Instance Messages
• Exercise 6: Assigning a Strong Name to the Assemblies
• Exercise 7: Building the Schema Project

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 2: Working with Maps

This lab demonstrates how to create a schema map to associate specific fields in a customer order to corresponding fields in the destination schema. This lab also demonstrates how to add functoids to a map, how to validate a map, and how to build a project to compile the map and associated schemas.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Creating a Schema Map Using the BizTalk Mapper
• Exercise 2: Adding Functoids to a Map
• Exercise 3: Validating and Testing the Map
• Exercise 4: Building the Schema Map Project

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 3: Working with Pipelines

This lab demonstrates how to create receive locations and send ports, and how to use message routing to create a subscription for a send port.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Create a Receive Port and a Receive Location
• Exercise 2: Create Send Ports and Define Message Filters
• Exercise 3: Start the Send Ports and Test the Configuration
• Exercise 4: Configuring BizTalk Host and Group Security Settings
• Exercise 5: Creating a Custom Send Pipeline
• Exercise 6: Building and Deploying the Pipeline Project
• Exercise 7: Modify Send and Receive Ports
• Exercise 8: Testing the Send Pipeline Solution
• Exercise 9: Creating a Custom Receive Pipeline
• Exercise 10: Building and Deploying the Receive Pipeline Project

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 4: Processing Flat Files

This lab demonstrates how to configure a pipeline to receive a process batched order. You will then configure it to allow recoverable interchange processing.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Create a Flat File Schema Using the Flat File Schema Wizard
• Exercise 2: Create a Receive Pipeline to Disassemble a Message Interchange
• Exercise 3: Enable and Test the Pipeline
• Exercise 4: Configure and Test the Pipeline for Interchange Processing
• Exercise 5: Configure and Test the Pipeline for Recoverable Interchange Processing

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 5: Integrating with POP3 and SharePoint and Routing Failed Messages

This lab demonstrates how to configure a new POP3 and WSS adapter for BizTalk Server 2006. This lab also demonstrates how to build and configure an orchestration that subscribes to failed messages.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Examine and Test the Approval Process Orchestration
• Exercise 2: Configure and Test the POP3 Adapter
• Exercise 3: Modify Two Send Ports to Use the SharePoint Adapter
• Exercise 4: Modify a Receive Location to Use the SharePoint Adapter
• Exercise 5: Test the Application
• Exercise 6: Create an Orchestration to Handle Failed Messages
• Exercise 7: Deploy, Configure, and Test the Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 6: Creating an Orchestration

This lab demonstrates how to use BizTalk Orchestration Designer to create and test a simple orchestration. This lab also demonstrates how to add additional shapes to the orchestration to add correlation and parallel actions.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Adding Schemas and Maps to the Messaging Project
• Exercise 2: Creating an Orchestration
• Exercise 3: Building and Deploying the Orchestration Project
• Exercise 4: Starting and Testing the Orchestration
• Exercise 5: Adding Shapes to the Orchestration
• Exercise 6: Build and Test the Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 7: Implementing Transactions

This lab demonstrates how to update an existing order-fulfillment orchestration to include transaction handling, including providing support for compensating transactions and exception handling.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Configuring Orchestration Properties and Variables
• Exercise 2: Create and Configure Transaction Shapes
• Exercise 3: Building and Deploying the Orchestration Project
• Exercise 4: Starting and Testing the Orchestration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 8: Integrating Business Rules

This lab demonstrates how to create and deploy a rule set and execute those rules from within an orchestration.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Defining Business Rules
• Exercise 2: Calling Business Rules from Within an Orchestration
• Exercise 3: Building and Deploying the Business Rules Project
• Exercise 4: Starting the Business Rules

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 9: Enabling Business Activity Monitoring

This lab demonstrates how to enable a specific application by using BAM for true real-time, end-to-end visibility in the context of a business activity.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Defining a Business Activity (Business Analyst)
• Exercise 2: Creating an Observation Model (Business Analyst)
• Exercise 3: Deploying the BAM Observation Model (IT Professional)
• Exercise 4: Mapping a BAM Activity to the Implementation (Developer)
• Exercise 5: Consuming BAM Data & the Portal Experience (End User)

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 10: Deployment and Management

This lab demonstrates how to use the new deployment and management features in BizTalk Server 2006. Specifically, this lab demonstrates how BizTalk artifacts can be grouped and managed as an application and how the newly redesigned BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Console enables and simplifies the deployment and administration of applications.

Lessons

• Exercise 1: Assigning and Deploying a BizTalk Assembly to an Application
• Exercise 2: Creating a Receive Port and Receive Location
• Exercise 3: Importing Port Bindings from a Binding File
• Exercise 4: Configuring and Testing the BizTalk Application
• Exercise 5: Exporting the Application to an MSI Package
• Exercise 6: Importing the Application from an MSI Package
• Exercise 7: Using the Group Hub Page to Fix an Invalid Message

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Exercise 11: WCF Introduction