Sergio Del Piccolo

With the announcement that BizTalk Server 2009 R2 is being renamed to BizTalk Server 2010, there is an impact on the ESB Toolkit 2.0 component. The ESB Toolkit 2.0 has a dependency on Visual Studio 2008. However, BizTalk Server 2010 will only support Visual Studio 2010, meaning that the ESB Toolkit 2.0 component won’t function. As a result the ESB Toolkit will be updated to version 2.1 and will be released in conjunction with BizTalk Server 2010.

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Microsoft announced that the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2009 R2 will be renamed to BizTalk Server 2010. Why was this done – well, Microsoft says that initially the release was meant to provide support for Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010. Since then they have included a key features, thereby expanding on the scope of the release. These features include:

• Enhanced trading partner management – enabling customers to manage complex B2B relationships with ease.
• Enhanced BizTalk Mapper – critical to increasing productivity in both EAI and B2B solutions.
• Enable secure data transfer – across business partners with FTPS adapter
• Updated adapters for SAP 7, Oracle eBusiness Suite 12.1, SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
• Improved and simplified management – including an updated System Center management pack.
• Simplified management through single dashboard – further enabling backup and restore BizTalk configuration.
• Enhanced performance tuning capabilities – at Host and Host Instance level.
• Out of box event filtering and delivery of RFID events.

One benefit customers will see is the support window being reset to 10 years (5 years mainstream and 5 years extended support).

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