Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 Branch – DG7GMGF0G49Z:0002

Overview

BizTalk Server is one of the integral parts of Microsoft’s Hybrid Integration Platform. It enables customers to seamlessly connect mission critical applications, automate complex business processes and leverage numerous Azure services. Whether your applications run in the cloud or on-premises, you should have the flexibility to seamlessly connect applications, unlock data and automate business processes anywhere. BizTalk Server 2020 offers:

• Comprehensive application integration capabilities including a highly available on-premises and cloud solution, mission critical line of business application integration and many more.

• Integration with latest Microsoft products such as Windows Server 2019, Visual Studio 2019, SQL Server 2017 and 2019.
• Hybrid connectivity by enabling customers to integrate with cloud native applications, web and mobile back end systems, and custom applications directly or through Azure Logic Apps. Customers can now take advantage of Azure services like Functions, Cognitive Services, Machine Learning and more to gain actionable intelligence on their data and make informed business decisions. More azure native integrations options are available in BizTalk Server 2020.

BizTalk Server 2020 Branch Edition software may only be installed on servers at the endpoint of its internal network (or edge of its organization) to connect business events or transactions with activities processed at that endpoint, provided, the server does not:

• act as the central node in a “hub and spoke” networking model,
• centralize enterprise-wide communications with other Servers or devices; or
• automate business processes across divisions, business units, or branch offices.
• Use of BizTalk Server Branch edition requires BizTalk Server Enterprise Edition be installed as the central node in a “hub and spoke” architecture
• Branch Edition for hub and spoke deployment scenarios

Specification

Hardware requirements

The following table lists the minimum hardware requirements for your BizTalk Server computer. In a production environment, the volume of traffic may require greater hardware requirements for your servers.

• Computer and processor: A computer with an Intel Pentium-compatible CPU that is:
  • 1.4 GHz or higher

  Hyper-threading and multi-core processors are supported.

  The 64-bit versions of BizTalk Server require a 64-bit operating system running on an x64-based system. Computers based on CPUs that are compatible with the AMD64 (x86-64) and Extended Memory 64-bit Technology (EM64T) processor architecture are considered x64-based systems.

  BizTalk Server is not supported on Itanium-based systems.

• Memory: 4 GB or more
• Hard disk: 10 GB of available hard disk space for a complete installation, including the operating system and all prerequisite software. The hard disk must be NTFS formatted.

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Software requirements & supported versions

• Microsoft Windows: Required. Supported versions include:
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows 10
• Internet Information Services (IIS): Provides a scalable web application infrastructure, and is required for EDI, BAM, Management REST API, and the SharePoint adapter.IIS is included with the Windows operating system.
• Windows Identity Foundation: Optional. Used by the Windows SharePoint Services Client Side Object Model (CSOM), which is automatically installed when you install BizTalk Server.Windows Identity Foundation is included with the Windows operating system as a Feature.
• Microsoft SharePoint: Optional. If you plan to receive or send messages from SharePoint Services, then a SharePoint Services computer is required. It can be installed on the same computer as BizTalk Server, or preferably on a separate computer.
• Supported versions:
  • SharePoint Services 2019
  • SharePoint Services 2016
  • SharePoint Services Online
• Microsoft Office: Optional. Required by Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to display a real-time view of business processes.
• Supported versions:
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2019
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2016

  BizTalk Server supports only 32-bit versions of Office.

• Microsoft .NET Framework: Required for all BizTalk Server managed components. BizTalk projects created in Visual Studio require the Visual Studio build target be set to your .NET Framework version.
• Supported minimum version:
  • .NET Framework 4.7.2
• Microsoft Visual Studio: Optional. Provides a development environment for building BizTalk Server applications. Required for BizTalk Server Developer Tools and SDK.Enterprise (recommended) and Professional editions are supported. Visual Studio Community Edition isn’t supported.
• Supported minimum versions:
  • Visual Studio 2019 (Version 16.4.0)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package: Required. The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ on a computer that doesn’t have Visual C++ installed.
• Supported versions:
  • The x86 and x64 versions are required. Download at Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package x86 and Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package x64.
• Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server: Required on all BizTalk Server devices.
• Supported minimum versions:
  • Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18.3.0 for SQL Server. Download at Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server.
• Microsoft SQL Server: Required for BizTalk Server Runtime, EDI, and BAM. For optimal performance, Microsoft recommends the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server. Other considerations:
  • To use SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AG), use SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU7 and newer versions. Starting with SQL Server 2016, AlwaysOn AG supports MSDTC; MSDTC is required by BizTalk.
  • BAM real-time aggregation (RTA) is not supported in the Standard Edition of SQL Server. To use BAM RTA, install SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
  • Using SQL Server Express Edition is not recommended. The Express edition does not include certain features needed by BizTalk Server.
  • BizTalk Server supports all case-sensitive and case-insensitive SQL Server collations except for binary collations. Binary collations are not supported.

  Supported versions:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU7
• SSIS Catalog (SSIDB): Optional. Required to use BAM. Create the SSIS Catalog.
• SQL Server Database Mail: Optional. Required to use BAM Alerts.SQL Server Database Mail is included with SQL Server.
• SQL Server Analysis Services ADOMD.NET: Optional. Required to use BAM Alerts.
• Supported versions:
  • SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services ADOMD.NET. Download at SQL Server 2016 Feature Pack.
• WinSCP: Required to use the SFTP adapter.
• Supported versions:
  • WinSCP version 5.15.4. Download at WinSCP.
• MQSeries adapter: Optional. Required only when using IBM WebSphere MQ.
• Supported versions:
  • IBM WebSphere MQ 8
  • IBM WebSphere MQ 9
• LOB and enterprise systems: Required when using the adapters in the BizTalk Adapter Pack. BizTalk Adapter Pack lists the available system adapters.