R0056 Installing BizTalk Server 2020 Basic Multi Computer Environment

Installing BizTalk Server 2020 in a Basic
Multi-Computer Environment
Sandro Pereira
Microsoft Azure MVP
Contents
Author .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
BizTalk Server Installation scenario ............................................................................................................... 6
The need for a Domain Controller - Windows Groups and Service Accounts ................................................. 7
Create Domain Groups and Users............................................................................................................................ 7
Planning the use of a new Organizational Unit ........................................................................................................ 7
Windows Groups Used in BizTalk Server .................................................................................................................. 8
IIS_WPG and IIS_IUSRS Group (optional) ............................................................................................................... 11
Users and Service Accounts Used in BizTalk Server ................................................................................................ 12
Summary of Users and Groups Affiliation .............................................................................................................. 14
SQL Server Service Accounts ................................................................................................................................. 16
References ............................................................................................................................................................ 19
Preparing Computers for Installation - Important considerations before setting up the servers ................. 20
Join the Local Administrators Group ...................................................................................................................... 20
Change the Machine name.................................................................................................................................... 21
Requirements for the user running the BizTalk Server configuration wizard .......................................................... 22
Install Critical Windows Updates (optional) ........................................................................................................... 22
Disable IPv6 (optional) .......................................................................................................................................... 23
Turn off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (optional) .................................................................. 24
Disable User Account Control (optional) ................................................................................................................ 25
UAC Group Policy Settings (optional) ................................................................................................................. 26
Turn Windows Firewall off (optional) .................................................................................................................... 28
Configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) ...................................................................... 29
Configuring Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) to work through a firewall or network address
translation firewalls (optional)........................................................................................................................... 31
COM+ Network Access considerations .................................................................................................................. 33
Customize Taskbar and Start Menu Properties (optional) ...................................................................................... 35
Preparing and Install SQL Server 2019 machine .......................................................................................... 37
Important considerations before setting up the servers ........................................................................................ 37
Install SQL Server 2019 .......................................................................................................................................... 37
Configure SQL Server Database Mail feature ......................................................................................................... 47
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3)............................................................................... 54
Configure SQL Server for Remote Connections ...................................................................................................... 54
Configured SQL Server protocols - Disable the Shared Memory Protocol, Enable TCP/IP and Named Pipes ........... 55
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Configure SQL Server Database Engine to listen on a specific TCP Port (optional) .................................................. 56
Configure SQL Analysis Server to listen on a specific TCP Port (optional) ............................................................... 57
Using a SQL Server Alias (optional) ........................................................................................................................ 58
List of ports between BizTalk Server and SQL Server (optional) ............................................................................. 59
Configure Firewall on SQL Server machine (optional) ............................................................................................ 60
Inbound Rules ................................................................................................................................................... 61
Outbound Rules ................................................................................................................................................ 62
Prepare and install prerequisites on BizTalk Server 2020 machine .............................................................. 63
Important considerations before setting up the servers ........................................................................................ 63
Enable Internet Information Services .................................................................................................................... 63
Running the BAM Portal in a 64-bit Environment............................................................................................... 68
Install Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) (optional)............................................................................................ 69
Install Microsoft Office Excel 2019 (optional) ........................................................................................................ 70
Installing and configuring Office Deployment Tool ............................................................................................. 71
Installing Microsoft Office Excel 2019 ................................................................................................................ 73
Install Visual Studio 2019 (optional) ...................................................................................................................... 74
Install the BizTalk Server 2020 Visual Studio project templates.............................................................................. 77
SQL Server Considerations .................................................................................................................................... 80
Install SQL Server 2019 Client Tools ....................................................................................................................... 81
Create SQL Alias to communicate with remote SQL Server using Non-Standard Port (optional) ............................. 84
List of ports between SQL Server and BizTalk Server (optional) ............................................................................. 85
Configure Firewall on BizTalk Server machine (optional) ....................................................................................... 86
Inbound Rules ................................................................................................................................................... 86
Outbound Rules ................................................................................................................................................ 86
Testing environment connectivity ............................................................................................................... 87
TCPView................................................................................................................................................................ 87
DTCPing ................................................................................................................................................................ 87
DTCTester ............................................................................................................................................................. 88
SQL Server 2019 Client Tools ................................................................................................................................. 91
Install and configure BizTalk Server 2020 machine ...................................................................................... 93
Install BizTalk Server 2020 ..................................................................................................................................... 93
Verify Your Installation ...................................................................................................................................... 96
Configure BizTalk Server........................................................................................................................................ 97
Pin BizTalk Server Administration to the taskbar.............................................................................................. 104
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Validate Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts .................................................................................. 106
Install BizTalk Adapter Pack ................................................................................................................................. 108
Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack (x64) ....................................................... 108
Steps to install BizTalk Adapter Pack ................................................................................................................ 109
Add adapters to BizTalk Administration Console.............................................................................................. 111
Install Critical Windows Updates, BizTalk Server Feature Packs and BizTalk Server Cumulative Update Package .. 113
Configure BizTalk Server SQL Jobs ....................................................................................................................... 114
How to configure the Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) ........................................................................ 114
How to configure the DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb) ......................................................................... 118
MessageBox_Message_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb ........................................................................................ 120
Optimize the BizTalk Server 2020 environment ........................................................................................ 121
Deleting BizTalk backup files ............................................................................................................................... 121
Implementing a custom sp_DeleteBackupHistory ............................................................................................ 121
Implementing a Maintenance Plan to clean BizTalk Database backup files....................................................... 122
Pre-allocate space and define auto growth settings for BizTalk Server databases ................................................ 127
Configure BizTalk Server Windows Services ......................................................................................................... 129
Install and configure BizTalk Health Monitor ....................................................................................................... 133
How to register BizTalk Health Monitor Snap-In .............................................................................................. 133
How to integrate BHM Snap-In into BizTalk Admin Console ............................................................................. 134
Install SSO Configuration Application MMC Snap-In ............................................................................................ 137
Configure BizTalk Jobs History (Microsoft SQL Server Agent job history log) ........................................................ 140
To resize the job history log based on raw size ................................................................................................ 141
Force Full Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) job ........................................................................................ 142
Managing and cleaning BizTalk Server MarkLog database tables ......................................................................... 144
Configure Hosts and Host Instances .................................................................................................................... 148
What are Hosts, Host Instances and Adapter Handlers? .................................................................................. 149
Best practices to Configuring Hosts and Host Instances ................................................................................... 150
How can I automate this task?......................................................................................................................... 151
Power Mode ....................................................................................................................................................... 152
Consider setting the 'text in row' table option to boost BizTalk Server Performance............................................ 153
How to exploit the Text in Row table option in BizTalk Server.......................................................................... 153
General network TCP settings that can impact BizTalk Server .............................................................................. 153
How to Disable the Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) features .......................................................................... 154
How to Disable Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) ........................................................................................ 155

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How to Check and (if necessary) increase the ephemeral ports and reduce the TCP re-use timeout setting ..... 155
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Author
Written By Sandro Pereira [MVP & MCTS BizTalk Server 2010]
Currently working as an Integrator consultant at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years,

he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for
various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality,
using Microsoft Azure (API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, PowerApps, Flow,
…), Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO and
so on.
Sandro is very active in the BizTalk community as blogger (https://blog.sandro-pereira.com), member and moderator
on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, TechNet Wiki author, Code Gallery and CodePlex contributor, member of BizTalk
Brazil community (http://biztalkbrasil.blogspot.ae), NetPonto community (http://netponto.org), guest author at
BizTalk360 (https://blogs.biztalk360.com/author/sandro), editor of the magazine “Programar” (http://www.revista-
programar.info/?action=editions), public speaker and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books, all focused on
Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”
(https://www.biztalk360.com/biztalk-mapping-patterns).
He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since January 2011, for his contributions to the
world-wide BizTalk Server community (https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4030655) and currently holds
MCTS: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010 certifications.
You can contact Sandro at sandro-pereira@live.com.pt (Twitter: @sandro_asp)

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BizTalk Server Installation scenario
This article explains how to install Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 on a basic multi-computer (or basic multi-server), i.e.
installation of BizTalk Server with a remote SQL Server (1 SQL Server and 1 BizTalk Server).
There will be 3 virtual servers:
• 1 Domain controller
• 1 Virtual Machine to host SQL Server
o Windows Server 2019
o SQL Server 2019SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition
• 1 Virtual Machine to host BizTalk Server.
o Windows Server 2019
o BizTalk Server 2020 Enterprise or Development Edition
In this scenario, I will perform a basic full installation of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020, except for the SharePoint
Adapter and additional components like Accelerators, ESB Toolkit or UDDI, emulating a production environment. The
following components will be installed:
• Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO)

• BizTalk Group
• BizTalk Runtime
• Business Rule Engine
• BAM Tools and Alerts
• BAM Portal (*)
• BizTalk EDI/AS2 Runtime
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapters
(*) Although Microsoft has deprecated the BAM portal, it is still possible to install it.
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We assume that all machines are already installed with the operating system and latest critical Windows updates
from Microsoft. Another presumption is that the domain controller is already installed and configured (this article
will not explain this step but you can get more information’s here).
The need for a Domain Controller - Windows Groups and Service Accounts
A very important difference between a single server and a multi-server installation is that the multi-server
configuration requires you to use domain users and groups to run the various BizTalk services, making having a domain
controller a necessity. These domain accounts and groups are used for the security configuration of the BizTalk Server
databases.
Because BizTalk and SQL are installed on separate machines, the use of a domain user account is, therefore, a necessity
so that the account can have access rights on both the BizTalk machine and the SQL Server machine.
Create Domain Groups and Users.

The BizTalk setup procedure is not able to create the Windows Groups and Users on a Domain Controller. So on a
multi-computer installation, BizTalk Windows Groups and Users must be created manually on the Domain Controller.
The following information will be useful in creating these groups and accounts:
• In a multicomputer environment, BizTalk Server supports only domain groups and domain service accounts
• BizTalk Server 2020 supports only <NetBIOSDomainName>\<User> name formats for Windows groups and service
accounts
• BizTalk Server supports only Active Directory domain groups and user accounts in multi-computer configurations
Domain groups include Domain Local groups, Global groups, and Universal groups, which are supported in both
single computer and multi-computer environments
• Built-in accounts such as NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE, NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE, NT
AUTHORITY\SERVICE, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, and Everyone are not supported when you install and configure
BizTalk Server 2020 in a multi-computer environment
Use the default group names whenever possible. The BizTalk Server setup automatically enters the default groups. If
there are multiple BizTalk Server groups within the same domain, you can change the names to avoid conflicts.
• As a personal opinion, I would prefer to keep the groups for the live environment (production) according the default
names
• Add an extension for the remaining environments like:
o “BizTalk Server Administrators DEV” or “BizTalk Server DEV Administrators”
Planning the use of a new Organizational Unit

To keep the domain tidy, we can place the BizTalk Groups and Users in an Organizational Unit (OU). It is a good practice
to utilize a new Organizational Unit (OU) to create all groups, user accounts and service accounts that we will use in
the configuration of BizTalk Server 2020.
An OU is an Active Directory container into which you can place users, groups, computers, and other organizational
units. By using them, you can create containers within a domain that represent the hierarchical or logical structures
within your organization.

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Note that the following steps must be performed on a computer which has “Active Directory Users and Computers”
installed. To create a new OU follow these steps:
• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen

• Type “Active Directory” and click on “Active Directory Users and Computers” option from the Search menu
• Right-click on the domain name and select “New → Organizational Unit”
• Enter “BizTalk” or “BizTalk Server Group” as the name of the new ‘Organizational Unit Object”
• Ensure to check “Protect container from accidental deletion” and press “OK”
Windows Groups Used in BizTalk Server

The following table lists the Windows groups and their memberships used by BizTalk Server.
NOTE : All these groups must be created within the OU created earlier
NOTE : The roles described in the column “SQL Server Roles or Database Roles” on the below table are
configured during the BizTalk Server configuration by the user that is running the BizTalk Server
Configuration tool. You don't need to create them manually.
NOTE : The principle of using an OU for BizTalk, can also be applied in case an organization has multiple
BizTalk environments. This will help in differentiating these environments
Group Group Description Membership SQL Server Roles or

Database Roles
SSO Administrators Administrator of the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) Contains service accounts for Enterprise db_owner SQL Server
service. For more information about SSO accounts, see Single Sign-On service. Database Role for the SSO
"How to Specify SSO Administrator and Affiliate
Administrators Accounts" at Contains users/groups that need to be securityadmin SQL Server
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=89383. able to configure and administer BizTalk Role for the SQL Server
Server and SSO service. where SSO is located
Contains the account used to run

Microsoft BizTalk Server Configuration
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tool when configuring SSO master secret
server.
SSO Affiliate Administrators of certain SSO affiliate applications. Contains no service accounts.
Administrators
Can create/delete SSO affiliate applications, administer Contains account/group used for BizTalk
user mappings, and set credentials for affiliate Server Administrators.
application users.
BizTalk Server Has the fewest privileges necessary to perform Contains users/groups that need to be BTS_ADMIN_USERS SQL
Administrators administrative tasks. able to configure and administer BizTalk Server Database Role in the
Server. following databases:
Can deploy solutions, manage applications, and resolve
message processing issues. • BizTalkMgmtDb
• BizTalkMsgBoxDb
To perform administrative tasks for adapters, receive • BizTalkRuleEngineDb
and send handlers, and receive locations, the BizTalk • BizTalkDTADb
Server Administrators must be added to the Single Sign- • BAMPrimaryImport
On Affiliate Administrators.
db_owner SQL Server
For more information, see "Managing BizTalk Server Database Role for the
Security" at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en- following databases:
us/library/aa578061.aspx.
• BAMStarSchema
• BAMPrimaryImport
• BAMArchive
• BAMAlertsApplication
• BAMAlertsNSMain
NSAdmin SQL Server

Database Role in the
following databases:
• BAMAlertsApplication
• BAMAlertsNSMain
OLAP Administrators on the

computer hosting the
BAMAnalysis OLAP
database.
BizTalk Server The BizTalk Server Operator is a low privileged role that Contains users/groups that will monitor BTS_OPERATORS SQL
Operators only has access to monitoring and troubleshooting solutions. Server Database Role in the
actions following databases:
Contains no service accounts.
• BizTalkDTADb
• BizTalkEDIDb
• BizTalkMgmtDb
• BizTalkMsgBoxDb
• BizTalkRuleEngineDb
BizTalk Server Read This is a new group starting with BizTalk Server 2020. Contains users/groups that will monitor
Only Users group Members in this group can view Artifacts, service state, solutions.
message flow, and tracking information. Members do
not have privileges to perform any administrative Contains no service accounts.
operations.
BizTalk Server B2B A BizTalk role that reduces the onus on the Contains users/groups that must be able BTS_OPERATORS SQL
Operators Administrators to perform all Party management to configure and administer BizTalk Server Server Database Role in the
operation. This role allows windows users associated TPM data and monitor solutions. following databases:
with the role to perform all party management
operations. • BizTalkDTADb
• BizTalkMgmtDb

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• BizTalkMsgBoxDb
BizTalk Application The default name of the first In-Process BizTalk Host Contains service accounts for the BizTalk BTS_HOST_USERS SQL
Users Group created by Configuration Manager. In-Process host instance in the host that Server Database Role in the
the BizTalk Host Group is designated for. following databases:
Use one BizTalk Host Group for each In-Process host in
your environment. • BizTalkMgmtDb
• BizTalkMsgBoxDb
Includes accounts with access to In-Process BizTalk Hosts • BizTalkRuleEngineDb
(hosts processes in BizTalk Server, BTSNTSvc.exe). • BizTalkDTADb
BAM_EVENT_WRITER SQL
Server Database Role in the
BAMPrimaryImport
BizTalk Isolated Host The default name of the first Isolated BizTalk Host Group Contains service accounts for the BizTalk BTS_HOST_USERS SQL
Users created by Configuration Manager. Isolated BizTalk hosts Isolated host instance in the host that the Server Database Role in the
not running on BizTalk Server, such as HTTP and SOAP. Isolated BizTalk Host Group is designated following databases:
for.
Use one BizTalk Isolated Host Group for each Isolated • BizTalkMgmtDb
Host in your environment. • BizTalkMsgBoxDb
• BizTalkDTADb
OPTIONAL: BAM Has access to BAM Portal Web site. Everyone group is used for this role by
Portal Users default.
OPTIONAL: Only required if you install/use BAM
Contains no service accounts.
For more information about BizTalk Server groups and accounts see Windows Groups and User Accounts in BizTalk
Server and for more information regarding BizTalk Server Security, see Managing BizTalk Server Security.
To create a new Group, follow these steps:

• Select the OU created earlier: “BizTalk” or “BizTalk Server Group”. Right-click on the OU name and select “New →
Group”
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• Enter the Group name of the new Group
• Ensure to select “Group scope” as “Domain local” or “Global”, “Group Type” as “Security” and press “OK”
• Repeat all the steps for the remaining groups
IIS_WPG and IIS_IUSRS Group (optional)

IIS_WPG group is a group provided by IIS 6.0 that provides the minimum set of user rights and permissions required
to run an application. Unfortunately for us, this group doesn’t exist anymore. Its equivalent on IIS7 is the IIS_IUSRS
group.
IIS_IUSRS is another group used by BizTalk Server 2020. However, unlike the previous groups, we do not need to create
this, because it is a built-in group with access to all the necessary file and system resources so that an account, when
added to this group, can seamlessly act as an application pool identity.
You don’t need to create the IIS_WPG group, unless you are thinking of using Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for
RosettaNet. In this case, you need to manually create the IIS_WPG group to prevent the BizTalk Accelerator for

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RosettaNet configuration from failing with the following error: “Failed to add member ‘user’ to NT Group IIS_WPG”.
(For more information see BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet runtime feature failed to configure: Failed to add
member ‘user’ to NT Group IIS_WPG Error code: -2147022676.
Users and Service Accounts Used in BizTalk Server

The following table lists the Windows user or service accounts and group affiliations used by BizTalk Server.
NOTE : All these users must be created within the OU created earlier
NOTE : The roles described in the column “SQL Server Roles or Database Roles” on the below table are
configured during the BizTalk Server configuration by the user that is running the BizTalk Server
Configuration tool. Normally, you don't need to create them manually.
User User Description Group Affiliation SQL Server Roles or Database

Roles
OPTIONAL: BizTalk The user who needs to be able to configure and BizTalk Server Administrators
Administrator account administer BizTalk Server.
Suggestions: OPTIONAL: you don’t need to have a dedicated

account for BizTalk Administrator; in fact, you
• BTSAdm can use an existing domain user account..
• usr-bts-admin Nevertheless, I like to have a general “BizTalk
Administrator account”. As a consultant, usually
nobody gives me access to the AD with such
permissions, but provisionally, they give me this
account to work.
Enterprise Single Sign-On Service account used to run Enterprise Single SSO Administrators
Service Sign-On Service, which accesses the SSO
database.
Suggestions:
User account for the SSO Administrator.
• SsoService
• srvc-bts-sso
• SsoAdmin
• usr-sso-admin
BizTalk Host Instance Service account used to run BizTalk In-Process BizTalk Application Users
Account host instance with accesses to In-Process BizTalk
host instance (BTNTSVC).
Suggestions:
• BTSHostSrvc
• srvc-bts-host
BizTalk Isolated Host Service account used to run BizTalk Isolated host BizTalk Isolated Host Users
Instance Account instance (HTTP/SOAP).
IIS_IUSRS (or/and IIS_WPG)
Suggestions:
• BTSIsolatedHostSrvc
• srvc-bts-isol-host
OPTIONAL: Rule Engine Service account used to run Rule Engine Update RE_HOST_USERS SQL Server
Update Service Service, which receives notifications to Database Role in the
BizTalkRuleEngineDb
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Suggestions: deployment/undeployment policies from the
Rule engine database.
• ReuService
• srvc-bts-rule-engine OPTIONAL: Only required if you configure/use
Business Rule Engine
OPTIONAL: BAM Alerts User Service account used to run BAM Notification NSRunService SQL Server
Suggestions: Services, which accesses the BAM databases. Database Role in the
following databases:
• BamAlertsSrvs OPTIONAL: Only required if you configure/use
• srvc-bts-bam-alerts BAM Alerts • BAMAlertsApplication
• BamService • BAMAlertsNSMain
• srvc-bts-bam-ns N OTE: This account was previously known as
BAM Notification Services User BAM_ManagementNSReader
SQL Server role for the
BAMPrimaryImport
OPTIONAL: BAM User account for BAM Management Web service IIS_IUSRS (or/and IIS_WPG)
Management Web Service (BAMManagementService) to access various
User BAM resources. BAM Portal calls
BAMManagementService with the user
Suggestions: credentials logged on the BAM Portal to manage
alerts, get BAM definition XML and BAM views.
• BamWebService
• srvc-bts-bam-ws OPTIONAL: Only required if you configure/use
• srvc-bts-bam BAM Portal
OPTIONAL: BAM Application pool account for BAMAppPool, IIS_IUSRS (or/and IIS_WPG)
Application Pool Account which hosts BAM Portal Web site.
Suggestions: OPTIONAL: Only required if you configure/use

BAM Portal
• BamApp
• srvc-bts-bam-app
To create a new user, follow these steps:

• Select the OU created earlier: “BizTalk” or “BizTalk Server Group”. Right-click on the OU name and select New →
User
• Enter the First and Last name and the User logon name of the new User. Press Next

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• Enter the password and password confirmation and ensure to select “Password never expires” and “User cannot
change password”, press “Next”.
• Repeat all the steps for the remaining groups
Summary of Users and Groups Affiliation

Group Accounts
SSO Administrators Enterprise Single Sign-On Service account
Suggestions:
• SsoService
• srvc-bts-sso
• SsoAdmin
• usr-sso-admin
BizTalk Server Administrators group
User account responsible to run Microsoft BizTalk

Server Configuration tool (can be removed after the
configuration is completed)
SSO Affiliate Administrators BizTalk Server Administrators group
OPTIONAL: BizTalk Application Users (if your pipeline,

orchestration or other artifacts need to read from a SSO
Configuration Application, then you probably want to add
this group as a member of SSO Affiliate Administrators.
(Nevertheless, there are other ways to do this like
specifying the correct groups for each SSO Application)
BizTalk Server Administrators BizTalk Administrator (optional)
Suggestions:
• BTSAdm
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• usr-bts-admin
Your user (suggestion), user accounts responsible to

configure and administer BizTalk Server and/or
sometimes Domain Admins
BizTalk Application Users BizTalk Host Instance Account
Suggestions:
• BTSHostSrvc
• srvc-bts-host
SSO Affiliate Administrators (Optional: if your pipeline,

orchestration or other artifacts need to read from a SSO
Configuration Application, then you probably want to add
this group as a member of SSO Affiliate Administrators.
(Again, there are other ways to do this like specifying the
correct groups for each SSO Application)
BizTalk Isolated Host Users BizTalk Isolated Host Instance Account
Suggestions:
SSO Affiliate Administrators (Optional: if your pipeline or

other artifacts running under the Isolated Host instance
need to read from SSO Configuration Application, then
you probably want to add this group as a member of SSO
Affiliate Administrators. (Once again, there are other
ways to do this like specifying the correct groups for each
SSO Application)
BizTalk Server Operators Contains no service accounts – You don’t need any
service account for this group. Instead you need to add
the domain users that need to perform Operation task
inside BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server B2B Operators Contains no service accounts – You don’t need any
service account for this group. Instead you need to add
the domain users that need to perform B2B Operation
task inside BizTalk Server
OPTIONAL: BAM Portal Users The Everyone group is used for this role by default.
IIS_IUSRS Group (or/and IIS_WPG) BizTalk Isolated Host Instance Account
Suggestions:

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BAM Management Web Service User
Suggestions:
• BamWebService
• srvc-bts-bam-ws
• srvc-bts-bam
BAM Application Pool Account
Suggestions:
• BamApp
• srvc-bts-bam-ap
SQL Server Service Accounts

The following table lists the Windows service accounts used by SQL Server.
NOTE : All these groups must be created within the OU created earlier
User User Description

SQL Server Agent Service Service account used to run SQL Server Agent
Suggestions:
• srvc-sql-agent
SQL Server Database Service Service account used to run SQL Server Database
• srvc-sql- engine
SQL Server Analysis Service Service account used to run SQL Server Analysis
Suggestions:
• srvc-sql- analysis
SQL Server Reporting Service Service account used to run SQL Server Reporting
Suggestions:
• srvc-sql- reporting
SQL Server Integration Service Service account used to run SQL Server Integration
Suggestions:
• srvc-sql-integration
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Alternatively, you can create a single Domain Account to run these services (like “sql-bts-service” or “srvc-sql-bts”)
Depending on the selection that you made while installing SQL Server, you will have the services installed in your
server.
SQL Server Database Services:
• SQL Server Agent

• Analysis Services
• Reporting Services
• Integration Services
• SQL Server Browser
• Full-text search
• SQL Server Active Directory Helper
• SQL Writer
You can configure your SQL Server related services either during the setup or after the installation using the SQL Server
Configuration Manager.
Types of startup accounts:
• Local User Account: This user account is created in your server where SQL Server is installed, this account does not
have access to network resources
• Local Service Account: This is a built-in Windows account that is available for configuring services in Windows. This
account has the same permissions as the accounts that are in the local Users group. Thus, it has limited access to
the resources in the server. This account is not supported for SQL SERVER and AGENT services
• Local System Account: This is a built-in Windows account that is available for configuring services in Windows. This
is a highly privileged account that has access to all resources in the server with administrator rights
• Network Service Account: This is a built-in Windows account that is available for configuring services in Windows.
This account has permissions to access resources in the network under the computer account
• Domain Account: This account is part of your domain that has access to network resources. It is always advised to
run SQL Server and related services under a domain account with minimum privileges needed
Changing Service Accounts:
SQL Server service accounts can be configured either during installation or using SQL Server Configuration Manager.
The first one is part of the installation and configuration can be done during the step Instance Configuration. I’ll walk
you through changing a service account using SQL Server Configuration Manager.

• Type “SQL Configuration” and click in “SQL Server 2019 Configuration Manager” option from the Search menu

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• Select “SQL Server Services” for the configuration manager tree, highlight a service in the right pane, right click and
then click the “Properties” option
• You can change the built-in account here to a Local User account or a Domain User account
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Remember that you will need to restart the SQL Server and related services for the new service account to take effect
References
• Windows Groups and User Accounts in BizTalk Server
• Part 3: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – SQL & BizTalk Active Directory Accounts
• Installing BizTalk Server 2010 and BAM in a Multi-Computer Environment manual
• Server Configuration - Service Accounts

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Preparing Computers for Installation - Important considerations before setting up the
servers
There are some important considerations and suggestions you should take into account. However, since these
operations are not mandatory, we can set them up before starting the installation and configuration of both servers.
As always, one of the downsides of dealing with a new version of Windows Server, is figuring out to where some of
the features/options have moved in this new release. Fortunately for us, Windows Server 2019 is similar or identical
to the previous one (Windows Server 2012 R2). This makes the installation and configuration process easier.
Join the Local Administrators Group

To be able to install and configure BizTalk Server 2020, you must log on the server using an administrator account on
the local computer.
To add a member to a local group using the Windows interface:

• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu
• Type “Computer Management” and click on “Computer Management” option from the Search window
o Or type “Administrative Tools” and then select “Computer Management”
o Or access to the “Server Manager” console, in the menu select the “Tools” option and then click on
“Computer Management”
• In the console tree, expand “System Tools” → “Local Users and Groups”, and click “Groups”
• Right-click the “Administrators” group, click “Add to Group”, and then click “Add”
• In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, do the following:

o To add a user or group account to this group, under “Enter the object names to select”, type the name of
the user account or group account that you want to add to the group and then click “OK”.
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o To add a computer account to this group, click “Object Types”, select the “Computers” check box, and then
click “OK”. Under “Enter the object names to select”, type the name of the computer account that you
want to add to the group and then click “OK”.
NOTE : If you are planning to create a production environment, you can find the list of Windows user (or
service accounts) and group affiliations used by BizTalk Server and some best practices of naming
convention here: User and Service Accounts Used in BizTalk Server
NOTE : By default, the Windows Built-in\Administrators group has the sysadmin SQL role on the SQL Server
Change the Machine name

An important consideration that you take into consideration is: if your computer name is longer than 15 characters,
BizTalk Server Configuration will not work.
• Start by running the “Server Manager”, if it is not already open, on the Windows Start menu, click the Server
Manager option
• In the Server Manager Dashboard, from the scope pane (on the left side) click on “Local Server”
• In the Server Properties for the “Local Server”, click on the “Computer name” property to be able to change it
• Click on the “Change” button to edit computer name and domain information, which will pop up this dialog:

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• Now you can finally change the name of the computer. You’ll have to reboot the computer after you have made
this change.
Requirements for the user running the BizTalk Server configuration wizard
The user running the BizTalk Server configuration must belong to the following user groups:
• The Administrators group on the local computer

• The System Administrators group on the SQL Server computer
• The domain group used for the BizTalk Server Administrators group
• The domain group used for the SSO Administrators group
To simplify things put this user in the BizTalk Server Administrators group. After BizTalk Server is installed and
configured, the user no more needs to be part of the BizTalk Server Administrators group.
Again, by default, the Windows Built-in\Administrators group has the sysadmin SQL role on the SQL Server.
Once SQL Server is installed, you will be able to check that by opening SQL Server Management Studio, go to
“Security\Server Roles” and double-click on the “sysadmin” role. The pop-up window will show all the Windows and
SQL logins having the sysadmin role.
Install Critical Windows Updates (optional)

Before installing BizTalk Server, SQL Server or the prerequisites of both, make sure you have installed the latest critical
Windows updates from Microsoft.
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To install Windows updates:

• Type “Windows Update” and click on “Check for Updates” option from the Search window
o Or press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, select “Settings” and then select the “Update &
security” option
• On the “Update & security” window, click “Check for updates” button and if new updates are available, install them
• If prompted, restart your computer
Disable IPv6 (optional)

IPv6 is the latest IP address protocol that will eventually replace IPv4. Windows Server 2019 kept this protocol enabled
by default, but it is also a fact that IPv6 is not yet common and many software, routers, modems, and other network
equipment do not support it yet. So, it may be a wise approach to disable it for now. Also, by turning it off, it will
facilitate the process of detecting which port certain application are listening.
IPv6 can be disabled either through the “DisabledComponents” registry value or through the checkbox for the Internet
Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) component in the list of items on the Networking tab for the properties of connections
in the Network Connections folder. The following figure shows an example:

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Turn off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (optional)
Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration establishes a configuration for your server and for Microsoft
Internet Explorer that decreases the exposure of your server to potential attacks that can occur through Web content
and application scripts. As a result, some web sites may not display or perform as expected.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This step is optional, and I only suggest doing this in development environments. For
some clients, this feature can be very important in production environments and they don't want to disable
By default, Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is enabled on Windows Server 2019 and can be
configured through Server Manager.
To disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) in Windows Server 2019:
• Start by running the “Server Manager”, if it is not already open, from either:
o On the Windows taskbar, click the Server Manager button
o On the Start screen, click Server Manager
• In the Server Manager Dashboard, from the scope pane (on the left side) click on “Local Server”
• In the Server Properties for the “Local Server”, you’ll see the option for “IE Enhanced Security Configuration”. Click
“On” to change the option
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• A dialog box appears, letting Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration be enabled/disabled separately for
normal users and administrators; turn off both. After disabling both options, click “OK”
• Click the Refresh button at the top of the Server Manager and the “IE Enhanced Security Configuration” should now
show as “Off”
Disable User Account Control (optional)

User Account Control (UAC) is a security component that can help prevent unauthorized changes to your computer
and that allows an administrator to enter credentials during a non-administrator's user session to perform occasional
administrative tasks. Whenever you need to configure some Windows Server 2019 settings, even if you are logged on
as the administrator, you need elevated privileges. This is by design, and part of the fierce security initiative in Windows
Server 2016. UAC notifies you when changes are going to be made to your computer that requires administrator-level
permission. Before you can complete any administrative task, the User Account Control manager pops-up with a
'Continue' message. These types of changes can affect the security of your computer or can affect settings for other
people that use the computer.
IMPORTANT NOTE : It is recommended that you leave UAC turned on to help make your computer secure.
This step is optional, and I only suggest doing this in development environments. For some clients, this
feature can be very important in production environments and they don't want to disable.
To Disable User Account Control (UAC):

• Type “Change User Account Control Settings” or “UAC” and click on “Change User Account Control Settings” option
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o Or press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, and then click “Control Panel”
o In “Control Panel”, click “User Accounts”
o In the “User Accounts” window, click “User Accounts”
o In the “User Accounts” window, click on “Change User Account Control Settings” option
• In the “User Account Control Settings” window, select "Never notify me when…" and click “OK” to disable UAC
You need to reboot for changes to take effect.
UAC Group Policy Settings (optional)

There are 10 Group Policy settings that can be configured for User Account Control (UAC). You can see them all listed
here.
IMPORTANT NOTE : It is recommended that you leave the UAC Group Policy Settings to their defaults to help
make your computer secure. This step is optional, and I only suggest doing this in development
environments. For some clients, these settings can be very important in production environments and they
don't want to make changes to them.
If you don’t want to have Admin Approval Mode for your local administrators, there are 3 Local Group Policies you can
disable:
User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the built-in Administrator account
This policy setting controls the behavior of Admin Approval Mode for the built-in Administrator account.
The options are:
• Enabled - The built-in Administrator account uses Admin Approval Mode. By default, any operation that
requires elevation of privilege will prompt the user to approve the operation
• Disabled - (Default) The built-in Administrator account runs all applications with full administrative privilege
User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode
This policy setting controls the behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators.
The options are:
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• Elevate without prompting - Allow privileged accounts to perform an operation that requires elevation
without requiring consent or credentials
• Prompt for credentials on the secure desktop - When an operation requires elevation of privileges, the user
is prompted on the secure desktop to enter a privileged username and password. If the user enters valid
credentials, the operation continues with the user's highest available privilege
• Prompt for consent on the secure desktop - When an operation requires elevation of privileges, the user is
prompted on the secure desktop to select either Permit or Deny. If the user selects Permit, the operation
continues with the user's highest available privilege
• Prompt for credentials - When an operation requires elevation of privileges, the user is prompted to enter an
administrative username and password. If the user enters valid credentials, the operation continues with the
applicable privilege
• Prompt for consent - When an operation requires elevation of privileges, the user is prompted to select
either Permit or Deny. If the user selects Permit, the operation continues with the user's highest available
privilege
• Prompt for consent for non-Windows binaries - (Default) When an operation for a non-Microsoft
application requires elevation of privilege, the user is prompted on the secure desktop to select
either Permit or Deny. If the user selects Permit, the operation continues with the user's highest available
privilege
User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode
This policy setting controls the behavior of all UAC policy settings for the computer. If you change this policy setting,
you must restart your computer.
The options are:
• Enabled - (Default) Admin Approval Mode is enabled. This policy must be enabled, and related UAC policy
settings must also be set appropriately to allow the built-in Administrator account and all other users who are
members of the Administrators group to run in Admin Approval Mode
• Disabled - Admin Approval Mode and all related UAC policy settings are disabled
To configure these policies, you need:

• Enter “GPedit.msc” in Start Search to run the Local Group Policy editor
• In the Local Group Policy Editor, navigate to the following tree branch:
o “Computer Configuration → Windows Settings → Security Settings → Local Policies → Security Options”

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• Locate the “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode”
policy in the right pane and set its value to “Elevate without prompt”
• Do the same for the rest of the policies you want to configure
• Restart the computer when done
Turn Windows Firewall off (optional)

I always advise you to turn Windows Firewall on BizTalk Server development environments unless there are specific
reasons for not doing that.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This step is optional, and I only suggest doing this in development environments. For
some clients, this feature can be very important in production environments and they don't want to turn it
off. However, in many scenarios, these machines are not exposed to the outside and even if this occurs,
they can be “protected” by the network infrastructure and, in such cases, may not require that the Windows
Firewall be turned on.
To turn Windows Firewall off:

• Type “Windows Firewall” and click on “Windows Firewall” option from the Search window
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o Or press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, and then click “Control Panel”
o In “Control Panel” address bar, type “Control Panel\All Control Panel Items”, and then select “Windows
Firewall” option
• In the “Windows Firewall” panel, select “Turn Windows Firewall on or off” option
• Select the option “Turn off Windows Firewall (not recommended)” in both settings and click “OK”
Configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC)

In Windows Server 2019 MSDTC is installed by default.
For BizTalk to run against its databases located on a remote SQL Server, you will need to turn on MS DTC options both
on the remote SQL Server and in BizTalk Server.
Configure MSDTC on BizTalk and SQL Servers:

• Type “Component Services” and click in “Component Services” option from the Search window

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• In the console tree under the “Component Services” windows, expand “Component Services → Computer → My
Computer → Distributed Transaction Coordinator”
• Right-click in “Local DTC” and then select “Properties” option
• On the “Local DTC Properties” window, select the “Security” tab and:
o Ensure that the “Network DTC Access”, “Allow Inbound”, “Allow Outbound”, and “No Authentication
Required” options are selected, and all others are cleared.
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o Click “OK”
• In the information window, click “Yes”
• In the information window, click “Ok”
NOTE: If you have the firewall enabled in the machines or the machines are in different networks with
limited access (network restrictions), it is suggested that a minimum range of 200 ports are set, between
ports 49152 to 65535.
• The ephemeral port range from 1025 to 5000 was used by Windows Server 2003 and earlier
operating systems, however, there’s a Windows 2003 Cumulative Update that changes the port
range to 49152-65535
• The default ephemeral port range starting with Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and newer
operating systems) is 49152-65535, as documented here or here
NOTE: If you receive COM+ related events or errors because of this setting you can revert it later or increase
the ports range accordingly.
References:
• Troubleshooting MSDTC issues with the DTCPing tool

• How to Configure MSDTC to Use a Specific Port in Windows Server 2012/2012R2
Configuring Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) to work through a firewall or network address
translation firewalls (optional)
For customers that want to maintain a high level of security, one of the ways to do this is to use a firewall between
the servers and, in this context, it is very important to properly configure both the BizTalk and SQL Server machines to
allow Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) ports on the firewall.
The MSDTC will by default use port 135, however, it will also use a wide range of ports to send and receive data. By
default, DTC uses Remote Procedure Call (RPC) dynamic port allocation, randomly selecting port numbers above 1024.
When it comes to configuring MSDTC to use a specific port range it is suggested that a minimum range of 200 ports
are set, between ports 49152 to 65535.
You can configure MSDTC to communicate through firewalls, including network address translation firewalls, just
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• Type “Component Services” and click in “Component Services” option from the Search menu
• On Component Services console, expand “Component Services”
• Right click “My Computer” and select the “Properties” option
• Go to “Default Protocols” tab and select the “Connection-oriented TCP/IP” option in DCOM protocols
• Click the “Properties” button

• On “the Properties for COM Internet Services” window, click the “Add” button to set a port range. For example,
you can specify the range: “50000-50200” (200 ports)
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• Click “Ok”
• Ensure that “Internet range” is check in both options: “Port range assignment” and “Default dynamic port
allocation”
NOTE: It’s recommended that you review your Windows Firewall exceptions to avoid any DTC issues.
Though system and security settings will vary, you can investigate the appropriate exceptions by going to
Windows Firewall → Allow apps to communicate through Windows Firewall and review the exceptions
for Distributed Transaction Coordinator.
Troubleshooting MSDTC Issues

If there are additional network and security rules required for the service to communicate, there are a number of
Microsoft tools that can help your team troubleshoot some common issues.
• DTCTester Tool - This tool verifies the transactions between two computers if SQL Server is installed on one
computer, using ODBC to verify transaction support against a SQL Server database. How To: Use DTCTester.
• DTCPing - This tool verifies transaction support between two computers, if SQL Server is not installed on either
computer. The DTCPing tool must be run on both the client and server computer. Learn more about the DTCPing
tool.
See also the TESTING ENVIRONMENT CONNECTIVITY chapter.
COM+ Network Access considerations

In a previous version of Windows Server, the COM+ Network Access feature belongs to the Application Server role
that was removed in Windows Server 2016. However in Windows Server 2019, this feature must be enabled for all
BizTalk and SQL servers.
Previously, the Application Server role installation process provided an option for enabling COM+ Network Access.
When COM+ Network Access is enabled, a firewall exception rule is created that opens port 135.
In Windows Server 2019, the existing way to enable COM+ remote access is to:

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• Open the Control Panel
• In the Search box, type “Windows Firewall” and click on “Windows Firewall” option from the Search window
• Click “Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall”
• In the Allowed apps and features list, select the “COM+ Network Access” and “COM+ Remote Administration”
check boxes, and then select the appropriate scope that’s required for your application. For enterprises, this is
typically Domain. However, depending on the scenario, your application may require additional settings.
• Set the registry value that allows COM+ remote access. To do this, follow these steps:
o In the Start search box, type “regedit”, and then click regedit.exe in the results list
o Locate the following subkey: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\COM3”
o Right-click the RemoteAccessEnabled DWORD
o In the Value data box, enter 1
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o Click OK
A quick test of DCOM access is the DCOM test client/server app, however, to do this test is still necessary to give
permissions at the firewall level.
Customize Taskbar and Start Menu Properties (optional)

This is merely a cosmetic and practical option. I hate to see servers with the volume option as it has no use being
present. Windows Server 2019 provides excellent control over the Taskbar and Start Menu and you can easily hide or
show system icons (clock, volume, network, power, input indicator or action center) on the taskbar. To accomplish
that you can:
• Simply right-click the taskbar and choose “Settings” option to bring up the “Taskbar and Start Menu Properties”
dialog box
• On the “Notification & actions” dialog box, click “Turn system icons on or off” option

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• On the “Turn system icons on or off” panel, disable all the undesired icons; in my case, these were the “Volume”
and the “Location”. Next, click “OK”
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Preparing and Install SQL Server 2019 machine
This part of the article will focus on installing the SQL Server machine and all necessary requirements and components.
Before installing SQL Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates from
Microsoft.
Important considerations before setting up the servers

Check if all the considerations described above are implemented:
• Change the machine name

• Join the BizTalk Administrator Group to Local Administrators Group
• Install Critical Windows Updates
• Configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC)
• Enable Network COM+ access
Install SQL Server 2019

BizTalk Server provides the capability to specify a business process and also a mechanism by which the applications
used in that business process can communicate with each other. SQL Server is the main repository for this
communication mechanism. For optimal performance, Microsoft recommends using the Enterprise Edition of SQL
Server.
NOTE: Using SQL Server Express Edition is not recommended or supported. The Express edition does not
include certain features needed by BizTalk Server
NOTE: BizTalk Server supports SQL Standard Edition version. However, to use Business Activity Monitoring
real-time aggregation (BAM RTA), you must install SQL Server Enterprise Edition because BAM real-time
aggregation (RTA) is not supported in the Standard Edition of SQL Server
NOTE: To fully use the BizTalk Server SDK or deploy BizTalk Server applications from a Visual Studio, you
should install the SQL Server Development Tools
NOTE: BizTalk Server supports all case-sensitive and case-insensitive SQL Server collations except for binary
collations. Binary collations are not supported
To install SQL Server 2019:
• Insert the SQL Server installation disk into the DVD-ROM drive. The setup program will begin automatically. If
prompted for automatic installation of prerequisite software, click “OK”
• On the SQL Server Installation Center, click “Installation” and then click “New SQL Server stand-alone or add
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• On the Product Key page, enter your product key and click “Next”
• On the License Terms page, select “I accept the license terms”, and then click “Next” to continue
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• In the Global Rules page, the setup procedure will automatically advance to the Product Updates window if there
are no rule errors. Otherwise, review the information and resolve any issues, and then click “Next” to continue
• On the Microsoft Update page, select “Use Microsoft Update to check for updates (recommended)” checkbox and
then click “Next” to continue.
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• On the Product Updates page, the latest available SQL Server product updates are displayed. If no product updates
are discovered, SQL Server Setup does not display this page and automatically advances to the Install Setup Files
page. Otherwise, review the information and resolve any issues, and then click “Next” to continue
• On the Install Setup files page, Setup provides the progress of downloading, extracting, and installing the Setup
files. If an update for SQL Server Setup is found and is specified to be included, that update will also be installed
o The System Configuration Checker verifies the system state of your computer before Setup continues
o If prompted to restart the computer, click "OK”
o
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• On the Install Rules page, another rule check will be run to ensure everything is in place, to be sure the setup will
be successful. If a rule check fails, the setup application will provide the corrective measures to take, so installation
may proceed. Click on "Next" to continue
• On the Feature Selection page, select the following features, and then click “Next” to continue
o Database Engine Services
▪ SQL Server Replication
▪ R Services (in-Database) (optional)
▪ Full-Text and Semantic Extractions for Search
o Analysis Services
o Reporting Services - Native
o Shared Features
▪ Client Tools Connectivity
▪ Integration Services
▪
NOTE: SQL Server 2019 Data Tools is not included in the default installation of SQL Server 2019. Although
not necessary, if you wish to install you can download it here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/mt204009.aspx.

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NOTE : SQL Server Management Tools (Basic and complete) are not included in the default installation of
SQL Server 2019. You can download the latest version of SQL Server Management tools online, or install
from the installation media in the option “Install SQL Server Management Tools” (which will be explained
later).
• On the Feature Rules page, Setup verifies the system state of your computer before Setup continues. The Feature
Rules page will automatically advance, if all rules pass. Otherwise, review the information and resolve any issues,
and then click “Next” to continue
• On the Instance Configuration page, select “Default instance”, leave the rest of the default values, and then click
“Next” to continue
• On the Server Configuration page, you can specify login accounts for all the SQL Server services. You can assign
the same login account to all SQL Server services, or you can configure each service account individually. You can
also specify whether services start automatically, are started manually, or are disabled (Microsoft recommends
that you configure service accounts individually to provide least privileges for each service).
o Leave the default login account to all SQL Server services
o Configure all of them with the startup type: “Automatic”
o Click “Next”
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• On the Database Engine Configuration page, select “Windows authentication mode”, click “Add Current User”,
and then click “Next”
o Authentication Mode: Select “Windows authentication mode”. If you select Mixed Mode Authentication,
you must provide a strong password for the built-in SQL Server system administrator account
o Specify SQL Server administrators: You must specify at least one system administrator for the instance of
SQL Server. To add the account under which SQL Server Setup is running, click “Add Current User”
• On the Analysis Services Configuration page, select “Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode”, click “Add Current
User”, and then click “Next”
o Server Mode: Select “Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode”. Server mode determines which memory
and storage subsystems are used on the server. If you plan to run multidimensional cube databases on
the server, choose the default option, Multidimensional and Data Mining server mode
o Specify which users have administrative permissions for Analysis Services: you must specify at least one
system administrator for Analysis Services. To add the account under which SQL Server Setup is running,
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• On the Ready to Install page, review the information, and then click “Install”
• On the Complete page, click “Close”
NOTE : Once again, SQL Server Management Tools (Basic and complete) are not included in the default
installation of SQL Server 2019 and we need to install it using the “Install SQL Server Management Tools”
available on the SQL Server Installation Center.
• On the SQL Server Installation Center, click “Installation” and then click “Install SQL Server Management Tools”
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• This will open a page in your browser, in which you can download the latest version of SQL Server Management
tools.
• Access the folder location in which you save the installation file and then execute the SQL Server Management
tools setup file: SSMS-Setup-ENU.exe
• On the Welcome page, click “Install”

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• The setup will extract and install all the necessary packages and provide you with an overview of the installation
progress
• On the Setup Completed page, click “Close”
NOTE : You have a similar option to install Reporting services and SQL Server Data Tools, if you desire to
install them.
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NOTE : Once again, after this installation, I like to do a Windows update; this step is not necessary.
NOTE: Service packs and Windows Updates are supported and should be installed.
Configure SQL Server Database Mail feature

If you wish to configure BAM Alerts on your BizTalk Server 2020 environment, then you must already have configured
SQL Server Database Mail feature. Otherwise, the BizTalk Basic configuration will ignore the BAM Alerts feature. This
is because BAM Alerts (with SQL Server 2019 or SQL Server 2016) uses Database Mail in SQL Server instead of SQL
Notification Services which were used by previous versions of BizTalk Server with SQL Server 2008 R2 or below.
Database Mail is an enterprise solution for sending e-mail messages from the SQL Server Database Engine. Using
Database Mail, your database applications can send e-mail messages to users. The messages can contain query results
and can also include files from any resource on your network. You can read more here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189635.aspx
NOTE : You still can have BAM Portal with activities and aggregations without alerts. Database Mail is only
mandatory if you want to receive alerts.
Before we begin, we need to determine the server name and port number for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
server that we will use to send e-mails (if the SMTP server requires authentication, configure the username and
password for the SMTP server). In our case, this will be the local SMTP Server which we previously installed and
configured.
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• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, type “SQL Management” or “SQL” and click in “SQL Server 2019
Management Studio” option from the Search window
• In the Object Explorer pane, connect to the SQL Server instance you want to configure Database Mail on and expand
the server tree
o Expand the “Management” node
• Double click “Database Mail” to open the Database Mail Configuration Wizard
o Or right-click under “Database Mail” and select the option “Configure Database Mail”
• On the Welcome to Database Mail Configuration Wizard page, click “Next” to continue
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• On the Select Configuration Task page, select “Set up Database Mail by performing the following tasks:” and click
“Next” to continue
o Set up Database Mail by performing the following tasks - Perform all the tasks required to set up
Database Mail for the first time.
o Manage Database Mail accounts and profiles - Create new Database Mail accounts and profiles or view,
change, or delete existing Database Mail accounts and profiles
o Manage profile security - Configure which users have access to Database Mail profiles
o View or change system parameters - Configure Database Mail system parameters such as the maximum
file size for attachments
• If Database Mail has not been enabled, you will receive the message: “The Database Mail feature is not available.
Would you like to enable this feature?” Click “Yes” to continue
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• On the New Profile page, specify the “Profile name” and “Description” to be included in the profile, and click
“Add...” to specify an account
• On the New Database Mail Account page, specify the Account name, Description, mail server information, and
Authentication type. Next, click “OK”
o A Database Mail account contains the information that SQL Server uses to send e-mail messages to an
SMTP server. Each account contains information for one e-mail server and doesn’t correspond to a SQL
Server account or a Microsoft Windows account. Database Mail can be sent using the credentials of the
SQL Server Database Engine, using other credentials that you supply, or anonymously. When using basic
authentication, the username and password in a Database Mail account are only used for authentication
with the e-mail server. There is no need that an account corresponds to a SQL Server user or a user on the
computer running SQL Server. You can specify the following:
▪ Account name - Enter the name of the new account
▪ Description - Enter a description of the account. The description is optional
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▪ E-mail address - Enter the name of the e-mail address for the account. This is the e-mail address
that e-mail is being sent from. For example, an account for SQL Server Agent may send e-mail
from the address SqlAgent@Adventure-Works.com
▪ Display name - Enter the name which shows up on e-mail messages which are sent from this
account. The display name is optional. For example, an account for SQL Server Agent may display
the name "SQL Server Agent Automated Mailer" on e-mail messages
▪ Reply e-mail - Enter the e-mail address that will be used for replies to e-mail messages being sent
from this account. The reply e-mail is optional. For example, replies to an account for SQL Server
Agent may go to the database administrator, danw@Adventure-Works.com.
▪ Server name - Enter the name or IP address of the SMTP server, the account uses to send e-mail.
Typically, this is in a format similar to smtp.<your_company>.com. For help with this, consult your
mail administrator. As I said earlier, we will use our local SMTP Server, so the server name will be
“localhost”
▪ Port number - Enter the port number of the SMTP server for this account. Most SMTP servers use
port 25
▪ This server requires a secure connection (SSL) - Encrypts communication using Secure Sockets
Layer
▪ Windows Authentication using Database Engine service credentials - Connection is made
to the SMTP server using the credentials configured for the SQL Server Database Engine service
▪ Basic Authentication - Specify the username and password required by the SMTP server
▪ Anonymous authentication - Mail is sent to the SMTP server without login credentials. Use this
option when the SMTP server does not require authentication
• Back on the New Profile page, click “Next” to continue
• On the Manage Profile Security page, you will be able to set the Public, Private and Default Profiles, select our
profile as Public and Default and click “Next”

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• On the Configure System Parameters page, leave the default values and click “Next”
• On the Complete the Wizard page, review the actions to be performed and click “Finish” to complete creating the
new account
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• On the “Configuring…” page, ensure that all actions have succeeded and then click “Close”
The Database Mail should now be configured successfully and all should be correctly set up to send emails. But we
must make sure by testing it. So, we will send a test email and confirm the reception. To do that:
• Right-click on Database Mail and select “Send Test E-Mail…”
• On the Send Test E-mail from windows, specify a “To:” email and click “Send Test E-Mail”

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The Database Mail Test E-Mail dialog box confirms that the test message that Database Mail attempted to send the
message and provides the “mailitem_id” for the test e-mail message. Check with the recipient to determine if the e-
mail arrived. Normally e-mail is received in a few minutes or seconds. If you have received the email, you have been
able to configure Database Mail successfully. But the e-mail can be delayed because of slow network performance, a
backlog of messages at the mail server, or if the server is temporarily unavailable. Use the “mailitem_id” for
troubleshooting.
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3)

Until this date, the Cumulative Update 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is available and can be found here. Service
packs and Windows Updates are supported and should be installed.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 cumulative updates upgrade all editions and service levels of SQL Server 2019 to CU3. You
can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2019 editions:
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Enterprise

• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Developer
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Web
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Express
Configure SQL Server for Remote Connections

For the BizTalk servers to connect to SQL Server, remote connections need to be enabled.
To do so, you need to:
• Run Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Management Studio and connect to the right instance
• Once the tool opens, right click the instance name and select “Properties”
• Go to “Connections” page and select the option “Allow remote connections to this server”
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Configured SQL Server protocols - Disable the Shared Memory Protocol, Enable TCP/IP and
Named Pipes
Under certain stress conditions (such as clients accessing SQL Server from the same computer), the SQL Server Shared
Memory protocol may lower BizTalk Server performance. You can resolve this problem by disabling the use of the
Shared Memory network protocol in SQL Server Network Configuration. Also, to facilitate transactions between SQL
Server and BizTalk Server, you must enable TCP/IP and Named Pipes in SQL Server.
To configure the protocols for SQL Server:
• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen, type “SQL Server Configuration Manager” and select the
“SQL Server 2019 Configuration Manager” option from the Search menu
• In SQL Server Configuration Manager window, from the left-hand pane, expand “SQL Server Network
Configuration” option and then click “Protocols for MSSQLSERVER”
o Verify that both “TCP/IP” and “Named Pipes” are enabled
▪ If not, right-click in the protocol, and then click “Enable”

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▪ Repeat to enable the other protocol if necessary
o Verify that “Shared Memory” id Disable
▪ If not, right-click Shared Memory, and then click “Disable”
• In the left-hand pane, click “SQL Server Services”, right-click “SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)”, and then click “Restart”.
Alternatively, click “Stop” and when the service has stopped, right-click “SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)” again, and
then click “Start”
• Close SQL Server Configuration Manager
Configure SQL Server Database Engine to listen on a specific TCP Port (optional)
This step is not mandatory and most of the time the default configuration doesn’t need to be modified. But sometimes,
from a security perspective, the client doesn’t want to use the default ports of the SQL Server.
If enabled, the default instance of the SQL Server Database Engine listens on TCP port 1433. Named instances of the
Database Engine and SQL Server Compact are configured for dynamic ports. This means that they select an available
port when the SQL Server service is started. When you are connecting to a named instance through a firewall, configure
the Database Engine to listen on a specific port, so that the appropriate port can be opened in the firewall.
To assign a TCP/IP port number to the SQL Server Database Engine:
• In SQL Server Configuration Manager, in the console pane, expand SQL Server Network Configuration, expand
Protocols for <instance name>, and then double-click TCP/IP.
• In the “TCP/IP Properties” dialog box, on the “IP Addresses” tab, several IP addresses appear in the format IP1, IP2,
up to IPAll.
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o One of these is for the IP address of the loopback adapter, 127.0.0.1. Additional IP addresses appear for
each IP Address on the computer. Check all IP addresses to identify the IP address for which you want to
reconfigure the IP Port.
• If the TCP Dynamic Ports dialog box contains 0, indicating the Database Engine is listening on dynamic ports,
delete the 0.
• In the console pane, click SQL Server Services

• In the details pane, right-click SQL Server (<instance name>) and then click Restart, to stop and restart SQL Server
After you have configured SQL Server to listen on a specific port, there are three ways to connect to a specific port
with a client application:
• Run the SQL Server Browser service on the server to connect to the Database Engine instance by name
• Create an alias on the client, specifying the port number
• Program the client to connect using a custom connection string
Reference: How to: Configure a Server to Listen on a Specific TCP Port (SQL Server Configuration Manager)
Configure SQL Analysis Server to listen on a specific TCP Port (optional)

This step is not mandatory and most of the time the default configuration doesn’t need to be modified. But sometimes,
from a security perspective, the client doesn’t want to use the default ports of the SQL Server.
You will be able to configure the port that SQL Analysis Server is listening by:
• Opening the SQL Server Management Console and connect to Analysis Services
• Right Click on SQL instance and select “Properties” option
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• Click “Ok” and restart the service
Using a SQL Server Alias (optional)

A SQL Server Alias is an alternative name given to a SQL server that is more familiar for the user. Besides that, SQL
Server aliases can be used as an obfuscation technique to protect the real names of database fields.
When we want to install BizTalk Server with a remote SQL Server using non-default port, we can use the format
“servername, port number” for a BizTalk installation. However, if we try to use the combination
“servername\instance, port number” it will give you the following error:
• Error Configuration Framework]Feature: [Group] Failed to configure with error message [Exception of type
'System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException' was thrown.]
For this reason, we may need to create a SQL Server Alias on the client machine (BizTalk Server) to connect to SQL
Server machine. Nevertheless, if we use an SQL Alias to configure the BizTalk Server we will also need to create the
Alias on the SQL Server machines otherwise the BizTalk Server jobs may fail, especially the Backup BizTalk Server
(BizTalkMgmtDb) job.
On SQL Server, an alias can be created on the client machine by running the SQL Server Configuration Manager tool.
• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen, type “SQL Server Configuration Manager” and click in “SQL
Server 2019 Configuration Manager” option from the Search menu
• Expand the SQL Native Client 11.0 Configuration option, right click on the “Aliases” item and select the “New
Aliases” item.
• In the “Alias – New” dialog box, you can create an alias where you can specify the instance name and the port
number it is using.
o In the “Alias Name”, set the name for the alias: “BizTalkSQL”
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o In “Port No” specify the port where Database Engine running is listening: 1433
o In “Protocol” leave the default value “TCP/IP”
o In “Server” specify “servername\instance”
o Click “OK”
• To avoid problems of 32 and 64 bits, do the exact same SQL alias on the SQL Native Client 11.0 Configuration
(32bit) by expanding the SQL Native Client 11.0 Configuration (32bit) option, right click on the “Aliases” item and
select the “New Aliases” item.
List of ports between BizTalk Server and SQL Server (optional)

The following table lists the ports that we need to configure in firewall or request ACLs to network IT.
Direction:
• Source Host: BizTalk Server

• Destination Host: SQL Server

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Port No Protocol /Service Description of Service
135 TCP RPC: Transacted connection to SQL Server
Transacted connection to SQL Server for SQL adapter
50000-50200 TCP Secondary RPC ports
(you may extend Secondary RPC ports for SQL adapter

more ports for Secondary RPC ports used to retrieve the secret key from the master secret
performance)
server.
1433 TCP Microsoft SQL Server port used typically for remote connections to the
database.
For the Enterprise Single Sign-On service to connect to the SSO database
To create and configure the databases: BizTalk Management database,

MessageBox database, …
To access BAM Notification Services database
To update and retrieve information from the databases during runtime

operations
Retrieve and send messages from databases used by SQL adapter
1434 UDP Microsoft SQL Monitor used for monitoring Microsoft SQL Databases
2382 TCP To update and retrieve information from the BAM Analysis database
445 TCP To create the OLAP data file (.mdb) on the remote computer
2725 TCP To create and configure the database, and to retrieve data for analysis
(PivotTable reports)
Reference:
• Required Ports for BizTalk Server
Configure Firewall on SQL Server machine (optional)

To access an instance of the SQL Server through a firewall, you must configure the firewall on the computer that is
running SQL Server to allow access. The firewall is a component of Microsoft Windows. You can also install a firewall
from another company. This topic discusses how to configure the Windows firewall, but the basic principles apply to
other firewall programs as well.
See more information here: Configure the Windows Firewall to Allow SQL Server Access
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Inbound Rules
To make DCOM applications work in Windows Server 2019 you need to add the COM+ network access as shown
below:

• Type “Windows Firewall” and click on “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” option from the Search
window
• On the “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” page, select the “Inbound Rules” option
• Enable the following inbound rules by selecting them, right click and select the option “Enable Rule”
o COM+ Network Access (DCOM-in)
o COM+ Remote Administrator (DCOM-In)
• Also, we need to enable Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) to communicate through a
firewall with another machines, by Enabling the followings rules:
o Distributed Transaction Coordinator (RPC)
o Distributed Transaction Coordinator (RPC-EPMAP)
o Distributed Transaction Coordinator (TCP-In)
• BizTalk Server Health Monitor or event BizTalk Administration Console use WMI to Query SQL Server and for that
reason we also need to enable Windows Management Instrumentation to communicate through a firewall. We
can archive that by Enable the followings rules:
o Windows Management Instrumentation ( ASync-In)
o Windows Management Instrumentation (DCOM-In)
o Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI-In)

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• Finally, we need to create new rules for each of port described in the topic “List of ports between BizTalk Server
and SQL Server” to allow BizTalk Server to communicate with SQL Server machine. To create a new Inbound Rule,
follow these steps:
o Right click on “Inbound Rules” on the left tree and select the option “New Rule”
• In the “New Inbound Rule Wizard” window, in step “Rule Type”, select the "Port" option
• In step "Protocol and Ports", select the protocol requested and specify the port or list of ports
• In step "Action", select "Allow the connection" option
• In step "Profile", leave the default options
• In step "Name", set the name and description of the rule
Outbound Rules
First thing is to enable the following outbound rules:
• Distributed Transaction Coordinator (TCP-Out) – this will allow Outbound traffic for the Distributed Transaction
Coordinator
To do this, follow the steps described in Inbound Rules as the steps are the same. The only difference is that we are
dealing with Outbound Rules.
The second is to create a new outbound rule for RPC ports:
• Right click on “Outbound Rules” on the left tree and select the option “New Rule”
• In the “New Outbound Rule Wizard” windows in step “Rule Type” select "Port" option
• In step "Protocol and Ports"
o Select the protocol: TCP
o Specify the range of ports: 50000-50200
• In step "Action", select "Allow the connection" option
• In step "Profile", leave the default options
• In step "Name", set the name and description of the rule
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Prepare and install prerequisites on BizTalk Server 2020 machine
This part of the paper focusses on installing the BizTalk prerequisites and operate the necessary configuration on the
BizTalk Server machine.
Before installing BizTalk Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates
from Microsoft.
Important considerations before setting up the servers

Check if all the considerations described above are implemented:
• Change the machine name

• Join the BizTalk Administrator Group to Local Administrators Group
• Install Critical Windows Updates
• Configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC)
• Enable Network COM+ access
Enable Internet Information Services

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) provide a Web application infrastructure for many BizTalk Server features.
BizTalk Server requires IIS for the following features:
• HTTP adapter
• SOAP adapter
• Windows SharePoint Services adapter
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption
• BAM Portal
• EDI
• UDDI
To install IIS 8.5, use the following steps:
• Start by running the “Server Manager”, if it is not already open, on the Windows Start menu, click the “Server
Manager” option.
• Under the “Manage” menu, select “Add Roles and Features” (or press “Add roles and features” under the
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• On the Before You Begin screen, click “Next”
• On the Installation Type screen, select “Role-based or feature-based installation” and click “Next”
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• On the Server Selection screen, select the appropriate server, leave the default options and click “Next”
o Select a server from the server pool
o The local server is selected by default
• On the Server Roles screen, select “Web Server (IIS)” option

o If prompted, click "Add Features" and then click “Next”
• On the Features screen, no additional features are needed for IIS, however, in addition to the default values, we
will need or should select or the following options:

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o .NET Framework 3.5 Features
▪ .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)
o .NET Framework 4.7 Features (If prompted, click "Add Features")
o SMTP Server (If prompted, click "Add Features") – optional
o Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 – optional: Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is required for the
SharePoint Services adapter or SharePoint Online, when used with SharePoint Services Client Side Object
Model (CSOM).
• Then click “Next”

• On the Web Server Role (IIS) screen, click “Next”
• On the Role Services screen under Web Server Role (IIS), we will customize our installation of IIS with the following
options:
o Common HTTP Features
▪ Default Document
▪ Directory Browsing
▪ HTTP Errors
▪ Static Content
o Health and Diagnostics
▪ HTTP Logging
▪ Logging Tools
▪ ODBC Logging
▪ Request Monitor
▪ Tracing
o Performance
▪ Static Content Compression
▪ Dynamic Content Compression
o Security
▪ Request Filtering
▪ Basic Authentication
▪ Digest Authentication
▪ Windows Authentication
o Application Development
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▪ Select all options
o Management Tools
▪ IIS Management Console
▪ IIS 6 Management Compatibility
• IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
• IIS 6 Management Console
• IIS 6 Scripting Tools
• IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
• Then click “Next”

• On the Confirmation screen, click “Install”
• When the IIS installation completes, the wizard reflects the installation status on the Results screen

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• Click “Close” to exit the wizard
Running the BAM Portal in a 64-bit Environment

BAM Portal runs only runs on a 32-bit mode. If you are using Internet Information Services (IIS) in a 64-bit environment,
you must set IIS to 32-bit mode to run the BAM portal. To do this, follow these steps:
• Open a command prompt as administrator and run the “adsutil” command. To do this, Press the “Windows key”
to open the Start menu and type “cmd” on the Start Search box, right-click in “Command Prompt” and select from
the context menu the “Run as administrator” option.
• Type the following at the command prompt:
cscript c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
• Close the command prompt
Or:

• Type “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” or “IIS” and click on “Internet Information Services (IIS)
Manager” option on Apps menu
o Or type “inetmgr” and click in “inetmgr” to open the IIS Management Console
• Expand the server and click on “Application Pools” to display available application pools in the center panel
• Right click on “DefaultAppPool” and select “Advanced Settings”
• Change the value of 'Enable 32-bit Applications' from False to True. Click “OK”
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Install Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) (optional)
In the previous step “Enable Internet Information Services” I mentioned that we should install the Windows Identity
Foundation 3.5 feature, why?
If you plan to configure/use the SharePoint Services adapter or SharePoint Online when used with SharePoint Services
Client-Side Object Model (CSOM), then Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) feature is required.
WIF is required if you are planning to use:
• SharePoint Services Adapter with CSOM

• SharePoint Online with CSOM
WIF is not required if you are planning to use:
• SharePoint Services Adapter Web Service (deprecated)

• No plan to use SharePoint
Windows Identity Foundation is included with the operating system (Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016,
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10) as a Feature in Turn Windows features on or off.
If you didn’t previously install WIF, then you should follow these steps:
• Start by running the “Server Manager”, if it is not already open, from either:
o On the Windows taskbar, click the Server Manager button
o On the Start screen, click Server Manager
• Under the “Manage” menu, select “Add Roles and Features” (or press “Add roles and features” under the
Dashboard panel)
• On the Before You Begin screen, click “Next”
• On the Installation Type screen, select “Role-based or Feature-based Installation” and click “Next”

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• On the Server Selection screen, select the appropriate server, leave the default options and click “Next”
• On the Server Roles screen, click “Next”
• On the Features screen, select "Windows Identity Foundation 3.5" and click “Next”
• On the Confirmation screen, select “Restart the destination server automatically if required” and click “Install”:
• When the installation completes, the wizard reflects the installation status on the Results screen
• Click “Close” to exit the wizard
Install Microsoft Office Excel 2019 (optional)

Microsoft Office Excel is required for using the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) feature in BizTalk Server. You will
use the BAM Office Excel Workbook to define the business processes you want to monitor, and you will also use the
BAM Excel Workbook to define the way in which business users see the data which is collected by BAM.
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IMPORTANT NOTE : BizTalk Server 2020 supports only the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office.
The following procedure installs only Microsoft Office Excel. You can install additional Microsoft Office system
applications and tools if you wish, but they are not necessary to complete the installation of BizTalk Server.
IMPORTANT NOTE : To successfully load BAM.xla into Excel, you will need to install the “VISUAL BASIC FOR
APPLICATIONS” option under “OFFICE SHARED FEATURES”. Otherwise, you may get the error “This workbook
has lost its VBA project, ActiveX controls, and any other programmability-related features.”.
In previous Office versions, such as Office 2010 or 2013, Microsoft used to provide traditional MSI’s (Windows Installer)
that allowed Office users to select, at the time of installation, the desired Office programs available in the Office suite,
so that the Office setup wizard installs only selected programs in their computers or servers. However, with Office
2016 version, Microsoft has started using a new virtualization technology called "Click-to-Run" or "C2R Installer" to
distribute Office setup and installation files.
The limitation in this new installer technology, is that it doesn't allow you to select, at the time of installation, the
desired Office programs we want to install. Instead, the installer downloads and installs all the Office programs in the
Office suite.
For a BizTalk Server environment, we don’t want to have the entire Office suite installed in our server. Instead, we
only want to install Excel 2016. Fortunately, Microsoft provides a separate official tool called "Office 2016 Deployment
Tool" for us to be able to customize the “Click-to-Run” installer options, so that you can force the installer to install
only the desired Office programs.
With the help of this tool, you can download Office setup files at your desired location and then configure the installer
to install your selected Office apps only. You can also select which language should be installed and customize lots of
setup options.
Installing and configuring Office Deployment Tool

Once you download "Office Deployment Tool", run it:

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• On the License page, accept the license agreement by selecting “Click here to accept the Microsoft Software License
terms” and then click “Continue”
• The installer will ask you to select a folder to extract the files. Select any desired folder
• and it'll extract the following 2 files in that folder:

o configuration.xml: this XML file will be used to provide all required information to force the installer to
install only selected Office programs with predefined configuration. You can consider this XML file as an
automatic answer file which is used in unattended software installations.
o setup.exe
NOTE : You can download Office setup files using the Office Deployment Tool setup.exe file or you can use
the Office 2019 ISO file which you may have previously downloaded.
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Installing Microsoft Office Excel 2019
To install Microsoft Office Excel:
• Open the container folder in which you extract the Office Deployment Tool and open the “configuration.xml” file
with an editor of your choice, for example notepad
• Replace the content of the file with the following configuration:
<Configuration>
<Add SourcePath="D:\" OfficeClientEdition="32">
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail" >
<Language ID="en-us" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Access" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
<ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
<ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />
<ExcludeApp ID="PowerPoint" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Project" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
<ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Visio" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Word" />
</Product>
</Add>
</Configuration>
o Where “SourcePath” is the path to the drive with the Office 2019 ISO file attached or the path to where
you want to download the Office programs to be installed afterwards.
• Open the folder containing setup.exe and configuration.xml files in a command window by pressing and holding
the SHIFT key on your keyboard, then right click on an empty area in the folder and select the option "Open
command window here".
o This will open the Command Prompt window with the current directory active
• Finally, to install the Office Excel 2019, you just need to type the following command in Command Prompt and
press Enter:
o setup.exe /configure configuration.xml
o NOTE : you will also have the option “setup.exe /download configuration.xml” to download the required
office setup files.
• This will automatically open an Office installation windows

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• On the Office Setup Completed screen, click “Close”
Reference for Click-to-Run configuration.xml file: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/jj219426(v=office.15)#BKMK_C2RConfigxmlFormat
After installing Excel and tools, I like to do a Windows update, however this step is not necessary.
Install Visual Studio 2019 (optional)

The BizTalk Server development tools are based on Visual Studio which provides a development environment for
building BizTalk Server applications. Enterprise Edition is recommended, but Professional and Community editions
are also supported. Like previous versions of the product, at a minimum, you must have the Microsoft Visual C#® .NET
component of Visual Studio installed on your computer, if you wish to install the BizTalk Server Developer Tools and
SDK components. However, like the previous versions of Visual Studio (VS 2012), with Visual Studio 2019 you cannot
customize the features that you want to install to the point of only install Visual C#, at least that I know of.
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NOTE : Visual Studio 2019 is not required if you are installing BizTalk Server on a production environment
(runtime only), on which it is not required to do application development and/or application debugging.
IMPORTANT NOTE : The BizTalk Server runtime components require .NET Framework 4.7. In addition, the .NET
Framework 3.0 is required if the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) adapter or WCF Interceptor
are planned to be installed.
ADDITIONAL NOTE : If you install Visual Studio before installing BizTalk Server and then upgrade to Visual
Studio Team Explorer, you may need to repair your BizTalk Server installation from the Control Panel /
Programs option.
To install Visual Studio 2019:
• Download Visual Studio 2019 from https://my.visualstudio.com.

• Once downloaded, run the executable as Administrator.
• On the Installing page, at least .NET desktop development needs to be installed.
• In the Select Features window, select .NET desktop development and then select Install.
BizTalk Server does not require any of the optional features. However, sometimes it is important to install at least
some of the “Microsoft Web Developer Tools” options. Add the following features to your installation:
o ASP.NET and web development
o Office/SharePoint Development (not required)
o Azure PowerShell under Individual components (not required)
o Click Once Publishing under Individual components (not required)

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• And then click “Install”
• If the Start after installation checkbox has been checked, Visual Studio will be started automatically upon
finishing the installation.
IMPORTANT NOTE :
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IMPORTANT NOTE : Although Visual Studio has been installed, the installation of BizTalk Server 2020 will not
detect that and install the required Visual Studio templates. Instead, you need to visit the Visual Studio
Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/) to get the BizTalk Server developments tools.
Install the BizTalk Server 2020 Visual Studio project templates

The BizTalk Server development tools are an integrated development environment for BizTalk Server application
development and testing. This develop environment contains:
• BizTalk project template, templates, and tools for schema, orchestration, pipeline, map development, and test
• BizTalk server application project template for automatic deployment and application lifecycle management
(ALM) experience
• WCF LOB Adapter SDK for developers who need to integrate dynamic and complex line-of-business systems as
part of an enterprise application integration effort
You can get the BizTalk Server developments in two ways:

• Access to the Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/
• Search for BizTalk Server and download the BizTalk Server development tools provided by Microsoft

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Or directly thru Visual Studio:
• Open Visual Studio and use the Manage Extensions dialog box to install and manage Visual Studio extensions
• To open the Manage Extensions dialog, choose Extensions from the menu and select Manage Extensions. Or, type
Extensions in the search box and choose Manage Extensions
• In the Search box, type BizTalk Server and chose to download the BizTalk Server development tools provided by
Microsoft
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• It will automatically download and install these components
• To finalize you need to close all Microsoft Visual Studio windows that are open. And next time you will open
Visual Studio, the BizTalk Server project template will be available for you to start developing your solutions

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SQL Server Considerations
The following conditions apply regarding remote computers.
• SQL Server Management tools (previously SQL Server Client Tools Connectivity) must be installed on the local
BizTalk Server computer when SQL Server is remote. SQL Server Management tools will install the client libraries
required to communicate with the remote instance of SQL Server
• You can install the latest version of SQL Server Management tools that are compatible with SQL Server 2019 on
the local BizTalk Server computer
• The remote SQL Server must be running during BizTalk Server configuration
• The TCP and UDP ports you specified during the SQL Server setup process must be open during BizTalk Server
configuration
• If you plan to use Analysis Services remotely, the OLAP client tools present in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Feature
Pack (previous SQL Server OLAP client) must be installed on the local computer
o Microsoft® Analysis Services OLE DB Provider for Microsoft SQL Server® 2016 (SQL_AS_OLEDB.msi)
o Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 ADOMD.NET (SQL_AS_ADOMD.msi)
o Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 Analysis Management Objects (SQL_AS_AMO.msi)
• To configure BAM tools, you need to have SQL Server Management tools installed on the BizTalk BAM Server
• Named instances of SQL Server Analysis Services are not supported
You can configure BAM Primary Import, BAM Archive, BAM Star Schema, BAM Analysis, and BAM Notification Services
Application databases on different computers. The following are the software requirements when SQL Server is
installed on a computer other than the BizTalk Server:
BAM feature Feature configuration BizTalk Server SQL Server
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BAM Tools BAM Primary Import Tables ADOMD.NET SQL Server SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL
and BAM Archive database Integration Services Server 2012
BAM Tools Enable Analysis Services for SQL Server Integration SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis
BAM aggregations Services Services or SQL Server 2012
Analysis Services
BAM Notification Enable Notification Services If using SQL Server 2008 R2, If using SQL Server 2012,
Services for BAM alerts install SQL Server 2005 configure SQL Server Database
Application Notification Services Engine Mail.
Database Components.
The BAM Alerts requirements
The BAM Alerts are documented at Preparing
requirements are Your Computer for
documented at Preparing Installation.
Your Computer for
Installation.
NOTE : The service account used for the OLAP service should have db_datareader permissions on the BAM
Star Schema database.
See more information here: Install BizTalk Server in a Multi-Computer Environment
Install SQL Server 2019 Client Tools

SQL Server Client Tools must be installed on the local computer when SQL Server is remote.
The SQL Server Client Tools (must be the same version that is installed on the remote SQL Server) install the client
libraries which are required to communicate with the remote instance of SQL Server.
NOTE : SQL Server Management Tools (Basic and complete) are not included in the default installation of
SQL Server 2019. You can install the latest version of SQL Server Management tools online or install it from
the installation media in the option “Install SQL Server Management Tools” (which will be explained later).
To Install SQL Server 2019 Client Tools:
• Insert the SQL Server 2019 installation disk into the DVD-ROM drive. The setup program will begin automatically.
If prompted for automatic installation of prerequisite software, click OK.
• On the SQL Server Installation Center, click “Installation” and then click “Install SQL Server Management Tools”

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• This will open a page in your browser, in which you can download the latest version of SQL Server Management
tools.
• Download the SQL Server Management tools and store in a convenient folder
• Access the folder location in which you saved the installation file and then execute the SQL Server Management
tools setup file: SSMS-Setup-ENU.exe.
• On the Welcome page, click “Install”
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• The setup will extract and install all the necessary packages and will provide you with an overview of the installation
progress
• On the Setup Completed page, click “Close”
Download and install the OLAP client tools, present in the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Feature Pack (previous SQL
Server OLAP client:
• Microsoft® Analysis Services OLE DB Provider for Microsoft SQL Server® 2016 (SQL_AS_OLEDB.msi)

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• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 ADOMD.NET (SQL_AS_ADOMD.msi)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 Analysis Management Objects (SQL_AS_AMO.msi)
Create SQL Alias to communicate with remote SQL Server using Non-Standard Port (optional)
Again, when we want to install BizTalk Server with a remote SQL Server, using a non-default port, we can use
“servername, port number” for the BizTalk installation. However, if we try to use the combination
“servername\instance, port number” it will give you the following error:
• Error Configuration Framework]Feature: [Group] Failed to configure with error message [Exception of type
'System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException' was thrown.]
For this reason, we may need to create a SQL Server Alias on the client machine (BizTalk Server), to connect to the SQL
Server machine.
An alias can be created on the client machine by running the SQL Server Client Network Utility (cliconfg.exe) tool. You
will want to repeat the following steps for each BizTalk Server in your environment:
• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu and type:
o C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cliconfg.exe
• On the General tab, select “TCP/IP” from the Disabled protocols” and click “Enable
• Select the Alias tab at the top and click “Add…”.

o On the Network libraries option, select “TCP/IP”
o Enter in the name of your new SQL Server Alias
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o Enter in the computer name of your SQL Server and Instance
o Specify the port number
o Click “OK”
• Then click “Apply” and “OK”
NOTE: If you have a more secure SQL environment and changed the default port along with adding a SQL
instance, this method will still work. You will need to uncheck Dynamically determine port and enter the
new port number you configured for SQL Server. You will only need to enter the SQL Server computer name
and not add in the instance name.
• Navigate to c:\Windows\System32 and repeat the previous steps to redo the same alias. It is best to keep the
connection to SQL consistent, even if you end up not needing the 32-bit and 64-bit alias.
List of ports between SQL Server and BizTalk Server (optional)

The following table lists the ports that we need to configure in the firewall or request ACLs to network IT team if
necessary.
Direction:
• Source Host: SQL Server

• Destination Host: BizTalk Server
Port No Protocol /Service Description of Service

135 TCP RPC: Transacted connection to SQL Server
Transacted connection to SQL Server for SQL adapter
50000-50200 TCP Secondary RPC ports
Secondary RPC ports for SQL adapter

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(you may extend
more ports for
performance)
Reference:
• Required Ports for BizTalk Server
Configure Firewall on BizTalk Server machine (optional)
Inbound Rules
To make DCOM applications work in Windows Server 2019, you need to add the COM+ network access as shown
below:
• As described previously on “Configure Firewall on SQL Server machine”, enable the following inbound rules by
selecting them, right click and select the option “Enable Rule”
o COM+ Network Access (DCOM-In)
o COM+ Remote Administrator (DCOM-In)
• Also, enable Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) to communicate through a firewall with
another MS DTC:
o Distributed Transaction Coordinator (RPC)
o Distributed Transaction Coordinator (RPC-EPMAP)
o Distributed Transaction Coordinator (TCP-In)
Now we need to create new rules for each of port, as described in the topic “List of ports between SQL Server and
BizTalk Server” to allow SQL Server to communicate with the BizTalk Server machine. As described previously on
“Configure Firewall on SQL Server machine”
Outbound Rules
First thing is to enable the following outbound rules:
• Distributed Transaction Coordinator (TCP-Out) – this will allow Outbound traffic for the Distributed Transaction
Coordinator
The second is to create a new outbound rule for RPC ports:
• Right click on “Outbound Rules” on the left tree and select the option “New Rule”
• On “New Inbound Rule Wizard” window, in step “Rule Type”, select the "Port" option
• In step "Protocol and Ports"
o Select the protocol: TCP
o Specify the range of ports: 50000-50200
• In step "Action" select "Allow the connection" option
• In step "Profile" leave the default options
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• In step "name" set the name and description of the rule
Testing environment connectivity

Before you install and configure BizTalk Server is always a good practice to test or validate the connectivity’s between
BizTalk Server and SQL Server machines.
To accomplish that we can use 3 Tools:
• TCPView – This is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your
system and can be obtained from Microsoft: TCPView
• DTCPing - This tool is designed to assist with troubleshooting Microsoft DTC Firewall Issues and can be obtained
from Microsoft: DTCPing.exe
• DTCTester – This tool tests a distributed transaction against a specified Microsoft SQL Server. This tool helps to test
distributed transactions across firewalls or against networks. The tool performs distributed transactions by using
ODBC API against a SQL Server database and can be obtained from Microsoft: DTCTester
• SQL Server 2019 Client Tools – Tools to communicate with the remote instance of SQL Server
TCPView
Before running this tool and since this tool runs on a dynamic port, we must check which port this tool is listening on
both machines and add an inbound rule in each firewall. To accomplish that, we can use the tool TCPView.
TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system,
including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections.
DTCPing
To test DTCPing tool you must run this tool on both the machines, then you can test whether the normal RPC
communication is working or not.
On SQL Server machine put the following configuration:

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On BizTalk Server machine put the following configuration:
Test ping on both machines, you receive a similar message:
Please refer to following log file for details:

C:\Users\...\Desktop\dtcping\BTSSQL1704.log
Invoking RPC method on BTSSQL
WARNING:the CID values for both test machines are the same
Please send following LOG to Microsoft for analysis:
Partner LOG: BTSSQL 1704.log
My LOG: BTSSQL 1704.log
RPC test is successful
++++++++++++RPC test completed+++++++++++++++
DTCTester
To test DTCTester you must create an ODBC Data Source in the BizTalk machine. You can accomplish that by
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• Type “ODBC Data sources (32-bit)” and click on “ODBC Data sources (32-bit)” option from the Search menu
• Select the “Add” button, select “SQL Server” option and click “Finish”
• Configure the New Data Source and then click “Next”
• Leave Default options and click “Next”

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• Leave Default options and click “Next”
• Leave Default options and click “Finish”
• Click “Test Data Source”
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• Press “Ok” three times
• Access from the command line (run→cmd), from BizTalk Server machine and run the following commands:
o Go to DTCTester directory
o Type dtctester <odbc name> <user name> <password>
o Example: dtctester SQLTest myuser mypass
SQL Server 2019 Client Tools

This is the easy part: just open SQL Server Management Studio from the BizTalk Server machine and try to connect
to Database Engine and Analysis Services by using servername\instance or the Alias that we created earlier.

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Install and configure BizTalk Server 2020 machine
This part of the article will focus on installing and configuring BizTalk Server 2020 and additional components.
Install BizTalk Server 2020

In this section, you’ll install BizTalk Server, confirm that the installation succeeded and then configure BizTalk Server.
When you installed SQL Server, setup granted your account Database Administrator rights. Since these rights are
also required for installing BizTalk Server, you must do one of the following:
• Use the same account you used when you installed SQL Server
• Make sure the account you’re using now, also has Database Administrator rights and is also a local administrator
To install BizTalk Server 2020:
• Close any programs you have open. Run the BizTalk Server 2020 installer as Administrator
• On the Start page, click “Install Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020”
• On the Customer Information page, type your user name and organization, enter your product key, and then click
“Next”
• On the License Agreement page, accept the license agreement by selecting “Yes. I accept the terms of the license
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• On the Customer Experience Improvement Program page, specify whether you want to participate in the
program, and then click “Next”
o BizTalk Server 2020 participates in the Customer Experience Improvement Program. As part of this
support, you can choose to provide useful feedback to Microsoft, regarding the feature usage reporting
functionality of BizTalk Server. The data collected from you is anonymous and cannot be used to identify
you. Microsoft collects feature usage statistics as part of this program. By participating in this program,
you can help improve the reliability and performance of various features of BizTalk Server. For more
information about this program and its privacy policy, see Microsoft BizTalk Server CEIP Privacy Policy
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269607).
• On the Component Installation page, review the available components and select the ones you want to install.
o Choose all possible components
o Accept the default installation location or click Browse to move to the location where you want to install
BizTalk Server 2020.
o And then click “Next”
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• In earlier versions of BizTalk Server, the installer allowed you to select how the required prerequisites are
installed. BizTalk Server 20202 however, automatically installs these prerequisites for you.
• On the Summary page, verify that the components that you selected to install are correct
o To enable auto-logon after a system reboot, click “Set” and provide your logon information. Auto-logon is
enabled only for reboots during setup and is disabled when setup is complete
o You can also enable the Install Latest BizTalk Server Cumulative Update (Recommended) checkbox. If
you did select the checkbox, the installer will check if there are any Cumulative Updates and install these
CU’s.
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• On the Installation Completed page, clear the “Launch BizTalk Server Configuration” check box, and then click
“Finish”
Verify Your Installation

You can check to see whether your installation was successful by using either Programs and Features or the Registry.
To verify installation using Programs and Features

• Type “Programs and Features” and click on “Programs and Features” option from the Search window
• When the list is fully populated, look for “BizTalk Server 2020 <Edition name> Edition”. If it appears in the list, the
setup was succeeded
To verify installation using the Registry:
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• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, type “regedit” and click in “regedit” option from the Search
window
• When the Registry opens, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0
o If keys exist in the 3.0 folder, the setup was succeeded
• Close the Registry, and then close the command prompt
Configure BizTalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Server provides the ability to configure the server using custom settings. The custom settings for the
server are configured using the database server name, username, and password that you enter into the configuration
wizard. See more here: Custom Configuration.
NOTE : Because this is a multi-Computer BizTalk Server installation we cannot use a “Basic Configuration”
option. You must select “Custom configuration” option.
To configure BizTalk Server 2020 using Custom Configuration:
• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, type “BizTalk Server Configuration” or “BizTalk”, right click
“BizTalk Server Configuration” option from the Search window, and then click Run as Administrator.
• On the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 Configuration page, apply the following configurations and then click
“Configure” to continue:
o Select “Custom configuration” option
o In the “Database server name” field under “Database” properties, enter the name of the database server
o In the “Service credential” properties, type the Username and Password for the account that will be used
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o NOTE : You may receive a warning, if you enter a username with administrative credentials on this computer.
Click “Yes” to continue.
• On Enterprise SSO tab select:

o “Create a new SSO System” option and place the following configurations:
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• On the Enterprise SSO Secret Backup tab, set a secret backup password, password reminder and the location of the
SSO backup file
o The master secret is the key used to encrypt all the information stored in the SSO database. If the master
secret server fails and you lose the secret, you will not be able to retrieve the information stored in the SSO
database. Therefore, it is very important to back up the master secret as soon as you generate it.
o There can be only one master secret server in your SSO system.
o Most IT departments have a password vault. This could be the ideal place to store this data
• On the Group tab, select “Create a new BizTalk Group” and place the following configuration:

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• On the BizTalk Runtime tab, select “Create a new In-Process host and instance” and “Create Isolated Host and
Instance” with the following configuration:
• On the Business Rule Engine tab, place the following configuration:
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• On the BAM Tools tab, select “Enable Analysis Services for BAM aggregations” and place the following
configuration:
• On the BAM Alerts tab, select “Enable BAM Alerts” and place the following configuration:

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• On the BAM Portal tab, place the following configuration:
• On the BizTalk EDI/AS2 Runtime tab, enable all features
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On the REST APIs tab, select “Enable BizTalk REST APIs” and place the following configuration:
• Click “Apply Configuration”

• On the Summary page, review the configuration about to be performed, and then click “Next”
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We now have successfully installed and configured BizTalk Server 2020.
You can check if the configuration went well by having a look at the Windows Event Log, there should be a lot of
Information entries and no errors or warnings related to BizTalk.
You should also start the BizTalk Server administration console and verify whether the BizTalk Server host instance is
started (found under BizTalk Group\Platform Settings\Host Instances). Try stopping and starting the host instance.
Pin BizTalk Server Administration to the taskbar

Everybody knows that BizTalk Server Administration Console is the most important tool for BizTalk Server. This
Microsoft Management Console (MMC) can be used to manage and monitor BizTalk Server, and you can also use it to
deploy and manage your BizTalk Server applications.
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Since the new UI in Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, almost all programs are “hidden” and can easily be accessed
through context search from the Start screen. However, constantly be doing this type of operations, eventually
becomes annoying.
So, to be able to quickly and easily access BizTalk Server Administration Console, you can pin the console to the taskbar.
To accomplish that you need:
• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, type “BizTalk Server Administration” or “BizTalk” and right click
in “BizTalk Server Administration” option from the Search window and select the “Pin to taskbar” option to add
“BizTalk Server Administration” to your desktop taskbar
• Or press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, expand “All Apps > Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020”, right click
on “BizTalk Server Administration” and select “Pin to Start” to have the BizTalk Server Administration console easy
at hand in the Start menu
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Validate Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts
After you have successfully configured BizTalk Server 2020 BAM Alerts, the configurator will create a new Database
Mail Account called “BAM_Alerts_Account” that will be used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts.
To Validate the Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts:
• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen, type “SQL Management” or “SQL” and click in “SQL Server
Management Studio” option from the Search menu
• In Object Explorer panel, connect to the SQL Server instance you want to configure Database Mail on and expand
the server tree
• Expand the “Management” node and double click “Database Mail” to open the Database Mail Configuration Wizard
• On the Welcome to Database Mail Configuration Wizard page, click “Next” to continue
• On the Select Configuration Task page, select “Manage Database Mail accounts and profiles” option and click
“Next”
• On the Manage Profiles and Accounts page, select “View, change or delete an existing account” option, and click
“Next”
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• On the Manage Existing Account page, select the “BAM_Alerts_Account” option under “Account name” and
validate the configuration. After that, click “Next” to make any changes or “Cancel” to exit.
• On the Complete the Wizard page, click “Finish” or “Cancel”.
Finally, you should test sending an email with this Database Mail Account. To do that:
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• On the Send Test E-mail from window, specify a “To:” email and click “Send Test E-Mail”
If all goes well, you should receive the email in a few seconds. If you have received the email, you have been able to
configure Database Mail successfully.
Install BizTalk Adapter Pack

The BizTalk Adapter Pack, along with BizTalk AppFabric Connect, the RFID features, the UDDI services and the ESB
Toolkit are not automatically installed with the default installation process. Instead, you have to additionally install
these features.
Although Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020 contains a number of additional adapters, like the Office365 Outlook adapters,
an Azure Blob Storage adapter and the EventHub adapter, there is also the Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack. This pack
contains adapters that enable enterprise applications and databases to interface with each other, by implementing a
common adapter framework. Similar to programming to access Web services, adapters enable clients to develop
software to access different enterprise applications. Technically, adapters are a binding to Windows Communication
Framework (WCF). The BizTalk Adapter Pack consists of the following adapters:
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Oracle Database (Oracle Database adapter)

• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle E-Business adapter)
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for mySAP Business Suite (SAP adapter). This also includes the .NET Framework Data
Provider for mySAP Business Suite (Data Provider for SAP)
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Siebel eBusiness Applications (Siebel adapter). This also includes the .NET Framework
Data Provider for Siebel eBusiness Applications (Data Provider for Siebel)
• J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne/OneWorld
• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service/Rendezvouz
• PeopleSoft enterprise
• SharePoint Online
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server (SQL adapter)
Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack (x64)
If I’m preparing an x64 environment machine, why do I need to install both x86 and x64 Microsoft BizTalk Adapter
Pack and not only the x64 pack?
On any computer where you want to perform design-time tasks using either Visual Studio or BizTalk MMC, you must
install the 32-bit adapter because:
• BizTalk Server Administration console runs as a 32-bit Microsoft Management Console (MMC) application
• Visual Studio is also a 32-bit application (and there isn’t any 64-bit version of Visual Studio)
However, for BizTalk runtime perspective:
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• If you want to run the adapters under a 32-bit BizTalk process (Host Instance): you need to install Microsoft BizTalk
Adapter Pack
• If you want to run the adapters under a 64-bit BizTalk process (Host Instance): you need to install Microsoft BizTalk
Adapter Pack (x64)
So, you always have to install Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack, or in other cases, you always need to install the 32-bit
adapter, if you want to perform any operation at design-time, especially, configuring the adapters in the BizTalk Server
Administration console
Steps to install BizTalk Adapter Pack

To install the BizTalk Adapter Pack:
• Close any programs you have open. Run the BizTalk Server 2020 installer as Administrator
• On the Start page, click “Install Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for enterprise Applications”
• In the Welcome page which follows, click Next
o On the End-User License Agreement page, select “I accept the terms in the License Agreement” to accept
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o On the Customer Information page, enter your User name and Organization and click “Next”
o In the Choose Setup Type page, select the installation type “Complete”:
▪ Typical: will install the common runtime and tools
▪ Custom: will allow you to select the features that you want to install and the installation location
▪ Complete: will install all the features
o On the Choose Destination Location page, choose the folder location that to want to install this features
and click “Next”
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o On the Ready to install page, click “Install”
o On the Completing the Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications Setup page, click “Finish”
Add adapters to BizTalk Administration Console

As it happens with all the adapters we installed on our BizTalk Servers environment, before we can begin to use them
we need to add the adapters to the BizTalk Server Administration console. So, in the next step, we will be describing

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how can we add the enterprise adapters, or any other custom adapter, into the BizTalk Administration Console. To
accomplish that we need to:
• Open the BizTalk Administration Console, by pressing the “Windows key” to switch to the Start menu, type “BizTalk
Server Administration” or “BizTalk” and click the “BizTalk Server Administration” option from the Search window
• In the tree view in the left of the console, expand “BizTalk Server Administration → BizTalk Group → Platform
Settings” and then “Adapters”
• Right click on “Adapters” and add a new adapter by selecting the option “New → Adapter…”
• In the “Adapter Properties” window

o In the Name box, type a descriptive name for this adapter
▪ WCF-SQL
o In the Adapter combo box, select the adapter from the drop-down you want to add
▪ WCF-SQL
o In the Description box, type a description for the adapter (this is optional)
▪ The WCF-SQL adapter provides access to SQL Server Database tables, views, stored procedures,
and functions. Polling is also provided, allowing applications to periodically look for data in
databases
o Click “OK” to complete the process of adding the adapter
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• Repeat steps to add the other adapters
NOTE : These configurations requires that you restart the host instance associated with the adapters.
Install Critical Windows Updates, BizTalk Server Feature Packs and BizTalk Server Cumulative
Update Package
Once again, after you finish installing all the components, you should check and install all Windows update available
and install the latest BizTalk Cumulative Update package and BizTalk features packs. If necessary, restart the server
(note that this step may not be required).
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• In my blog: BizTalk Server: List of Service Packs and Cumulative Updates available
• Or in Microsoft official page: Service Pack and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server
Configure BizTalk Server SQL Jobs

BizTalk Server databases and their health are very important for a successful BizTalk Server database messaging
environment. Although there can be many settings we can configure, like auto-growth settings for the BizTalk
Databases (you can learn more here), there are two main things that we must understand and be aware of, especially
the database administrators:
• Execution of the BizTalk Server SQL Agent jobs are crucial for managing the health of the BizTalk Server databases
and for maintaining optimal performance
• The Backup BizTalk Server job is the only supported method to backup the BizTalk Server databases and requires
that all the BizTalk Server databases are configured to use the SQL Server full recovery model
BizTalk is shipped out with a total of 13 SQL Agent jobs. By default, the following BizTalk jobs aren’t configured and
enabled upon installation.
• Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)

• DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb)
• MessageBox_Message_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
The two jobs that need configurations are the two most important ones:
• the "Backup BizTalk Server"
• the "DTA Purge and Archive"
If you want these functionalities, and you do…, you must configure and enable them.
How to configure the Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)

This is the job provided by Microsoft to do a best practice backup of the BizTalk databases. This job must be configured
for it to be able to run.
This Job consists of four steps:

• Step 1 – Set Compression Option – Enable or disable compression during backup
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• Step 2 – BackupFull – Performs full database backups of the BizTalk Server databases
• Step 3 – MarkAndBackUpLog – Backs up the BizTalk Server database logs
• Step 4 – Clear Backup History – Specifies for how long the backup history is kept
To configure the Backup BizTalk Server job:

• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start menu, type “SQL Server Management” or “SSMS” and click
“Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio vv” option
• Connect to the SQL Server instance and expand the server tree
o Expand the “SQL Server Agent” node
o Expand the “Jobs” node
• Double click “Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)” to open the job properties window
• In the Job Properties - Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) dialog box, under “Select a page”, click “Steps”
• In the “Job step list”, click on the job you want to edit, and then click “Edit”
Step 1 – Set Compression Option

Since BizTalk Server 2010, BizTalk Server supports compression for its SQL Server database backups, thereby providing
some benefits like less space needed for the backup files, fewer I/O operations for the backup and restore and so on.
This job step calls a stored procedure named sp_SetBackupCompression on the BizTalk management database
(BizTalkMgmtDb by default) to set the value on the adm_BackupSettings table.
The original script is:
exec [dbo].[sp_SetBackupCompression] @bCompression = 0 /*0 - Do not use Compression, 1 - Use Compression */
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• @bCompression: By default, Set Compression Option is set to 0, which makes backup compression off by default.
To change the default, change Set Compression Option to 1
Change the script to:
exec [dbo].[sp_SetBackupCompression] @bCompression = 1 /*0 - Do not use Compression, 1 - Use Compression */
Step 2 – BackupFull
The BackupFull step is responsible for performing a full backup of the database.
exec [dbo].[sp_BackupAllFull_Schedule] 'd' /* Frequency */, 'BTS' /* Name */, '<destination path>' /* location of
backup files */
Where:
• Frequency: The default is d (daily). This is the recommended setting. Other values include h (hourly), w (weekly),
m (monthly), or y (yearly)
• Name: The default is BTS. The name is used as part of the backup file name
• Location of backup files: Replace ‘<destination path>’ with the full path (the path must include the single quotes)
to the computer and folder where you want to back up the BizTalk Server databases
There are also three optional parameters:
• Force full backup after partial backup failures (@ForceFullBackupAfterPartialSetFailure): The default is 0 when
not specified, which means that if a log backup fails, no full backups are done until the next full backup frequency
interval is reached.
o Replace with 1, if you want a full backup to be made whenever a log backup failure occurs.
• Local time hour for the backup process to run (@BackupHour): The default is NULL when not specified, which
means that backup job will not be associated with the time zone of the BizTalk Server computer and will run at
midnight UTC time (0000).
o If you want to backup to run at a particular hour in the time zone of the BizTalk Server computer, specify
an integer value from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11 PM) as the local time hour for the BackupHour parameter.
• Use local time (@UseLocalTime): This is an extra parameter that you can also add that tells the procedure to use
local time. The default value is 0.
o If set to 0, then it uses current UTC time – GETUTCDATE() – 2007-05-04 01:34:11.933
o If set to 1, then it uses local time – GETDATE() – 2007-05-03 18:34:11.933
exec [dbo].[sp_BackupAllFull_Schedule] 'd' /* Frequency */, 'BTS' /* Name */, '<your_destination_path>\BizTalk

Database\Full' /* location of backup files */
Step 3 – MarkAndBackUpLog
The MarkAndBackupLog step is responsible for marking the logs for backup and then backing them up.
exec [dbo].[sp_MarkAll] 'BTS' /* Log mark name */, '<destination path>' /* location of backup files */
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Where:
• @MarkName: Log mark name is part of the naming convention for backup files:
o <Server Name>_<Database Name>_Log_< Log Mark Name >_<Timestamp>
• @BackupPath: You must change the destination path this to a valid one. It may be local or a UNC path to another
server
There is also one optional parameter:
• @UseLocalTime: This is an extra parameter that you can also add, which tells the procedure to use local time
o exec [dbo].[sp_MarkAll] 'BTS' /* Log mark name */,'<destination path>' /*location of backup files */ , 1
exec [dbo].[sp_MarkAll] 'BTS' /* Log mark name */, '< your_destination_path>\BizTalk Database\Logs' /* location of
backup files */
Step 4 – Clear Backup History

The Clear Backup History step is responsible for performing a cleanup of the backup history, according for how long
the Backup History in the BizTalk Management database should be kept.
The original script clears out the instances in the adm_BackupHistory table older than 14 days:
exec [dbo].[sp_DeleteBackupHistory] @DaysToKeep=14
Where:
• @DaysToKeep: specifies how long the backup history is kept in the Adm_BackupHistory table. Periodically clearing
the backup history helps to maintain the Adm_BackupHistory table at an appropriate size
o The default value for the DaysToKeep parameter is 14 days
There is also one optional parameter:
• @UseLocalTime: This is an extra parameter that you can also add that tells the procedure to use local time
o exec [dbo].[sp_DeleteBackupHistory] @DaysToKeep=14 , @UseLocalTime =1
In this particular case, I like to leave the default settings.
IMPORTANT NOTE : This job step does not provide functionality for deleting backup files that have
accumulated over time. You can solve this problem by implementing you custom sp_DeleteBackupHistory
or by creating a Maintenance Plan to delete BizTalk Database Backups files (see more details E RROR! REFERENCE
SOURCE NOT FOUND .).
After having it properly configured, you need to enable the Backup BizTalk Server job:
• Under “Jobs” in SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer, Right click on the name of the job “Backup BizTalk
Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)” and select “Enable” option

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• In the result screen, click “Close”
How to configure the DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb)

This job automates the archiving of tracked messages and the purging of the BizTalk Tracking database to maintain a
healthy system and to keep the tracking data archived for future use.
The job is configured to call the stored procedure dtasp_BackupAndPurgeTrackingDatabase, which uses the six
parameters you must configure in this job:
• @nLiveHours: Any completed instance older than the (live hours) + (live days) will be deleted along with all
associated data. The default is 0 hours
• @nLiveDays: Any completed instance older than the (live hours) + (live days) will be deleted along with all
associated data. The default interval is 1 day
• @nHardDeleteDays: All data (even if incomplete) older than this, will be deleted. The time interval specified for
HardDeleteDays should be greater than the live window of data. The live window of data is the interval of time, for
which you want to maintain tracking data in the BizTalk Tracking (BizTalkDTADb) database. Anything older than this
interval is eligible to be archived at the next archive and then purged. The default is 30 days
• @nvcFolder: Folder in which to put the backup files
• @nvcValidatingServer: Server on which validation will be done. A NULL value indicates no validation is being done.
The default is NULL
• @fForceBackup: Default is 0. This is reserved for future use
To configure the DTA Purge and Archive job:
• Start by running the “SQL Server Management Studio”. If it is not already open, press the “Windows key” to switch
to the Start screen, type “SQL Server Management” or “SSMS” and click in “SQL Server Management Studio vv”
option from the Search menu
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• In Object Explorer panel, connect to the SQL Server instance and expand the server tree
o Expand the “SQL Server Agent” node
o Expand the “Jobs” node
• Double click “DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb)” to open the job properties window
• In the Job Properties - DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb) dialog box, under “Select a page”, click “Steps”
• In the “Job step list”, click Archive and Purge, and then click Edit
The original script after installing BizTalk looks like this:
o Without any BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Updated installed
exec dtasp_BackupAndPurgeTrackingDatabase
0, --@nLiveHours tinyint, --Any completed instance older than the live hours +live days
1, --@nLiveDays tinyint = 0, --will be deleted along with all associated data
30, --@nHardDeleteDays tinyint = 0, --all data older than this will be deleted.
null, --@nvcFolder nvarchar(1024) = null, --folder for backup files
null, --@nvcValidatingServer sysname = null,
0 --@fForceBackup int = 0 --if this flag is set to 1 we will force a backup at that point
o With BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Updated 1 or higher installed
exec dtasp_BackupAndPurgeTrackingDatabase
0, --@nLiveHours tinyint, --Any completed instance older than the live hours +live days
1, --@nLiveDays tinyint = 0, --will be deleted along with all associated data
30, --@nHardDeleteDays tinyint = 0, --all data older than this will be deleted.

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null, --@nvcFolder nvarchar(1024) = null, --folder for backup files
null, --@nvcValidatingServer sysname = null,
0, --@fForceBackup int = 0 --if this flag is set to 1 we will force a backup at that point
1 --@fHardDeleteRunningInstances --if this flag is set to 1 we will delete all the running service instances older than
hard delete days. By default, this new parameter is set to 0.
This means that:
• Any completed instance that is older than the live days plus live hours will be deleted, as will any associated data
• Any data older than the HardDeleteDays will be deleted
Normally I use these configurations for production environments:
exec dtasp_BackupAndPurgeTrackingDatabase 0, 10, 20, '<destination path>', null, 0
BizTalk gives you the option to Archive and Purge the tracking data or just simply purge the data without archiving. So,
in a development machine, we don’t need to maintain the archived tracking data, so I just purge it periodically:
• Change the SQL Statement inside the “DTA Purge and Achieve” SQL Job to:
o Without any BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Updated installed
declare @dtLastBackup datetime set @dtLastBackup = GetUTCDate() exec dtasp_PurgeTrackingDatabase 1, 0, 7,

@dtLastBackup
o With BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Updated 1 or higher installed
declare @dtLastBackup datetime set @dtLastBackup = GetUTCDate() exec dtasp_PurgeTrackingDatabase 1, 0, 7,

@dtLastBackup, 1
Where:
exec dtasp_PurgeTrackingDatabase
1, --@nHours tinyint, --Any completed instance older than the live hours +live days
0, --@nDays tinyint, --will be deleted along with all associated data
7, --@nHardDays tinyint, --all data older than this days will be deleted
@dtLastBackup, --@dtLastBackup datetime,
1 --@fHardDeleteRunningInstances int = 0, --if this flag is set to 1 we will delete all the running service instances older
than hard delete days. By default, this new parameter is set to 0.
After having it properly configured, you need to enable the DTA Purge and Archive job:
• Under “Jobs” in SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer, right click on the name of the job “DTA Purge and
Archive (BizTalkDTADb)” and select the “Enable” option
• In the result screen, click “Close”
MessageBox_Message_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
This job removes all messages that are not referenced by any subscribers in the BizTalkMsgBoxDb database tables.
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IMPORTANT NOTE : This job is also started by the
MessageBox_Message_ManageRefCountLog_BizTalkMsgBoxDb job. Therefore, we recommend that you
keep this job disabled.
Optimize the BizTalk Server 2020 environment

This part of the paper will focus on optimizing some BizTalk Server 2020 configurations. The following
recommendations can be used to increase BizTalk Server performance or just to make the platform more resilient to
failures. The optimizations listed in this topic are applied after BizTalk Server has been installed and configured.
Deleting BizTalk backup files

BizTalk Server database databases and their health are very important for a successful BizTalk Server database
messaging environment. BizTalk is shipped out with a total of 13 SQL Agent jobs. By default, the following BizTalk jobs
aren’t configured and enabled upon installation and the two jobs that need configurations are the two most important
jobs: the "Backup BizTalk Server" and the "DTA Purge and Archive". This is nothing new and everybody knows!
However, many times it is forgotten that these two jobs, by default, don’t provide functionalities for deleting backup
files that have accumulated over time on our file system and we normally forget to create a “process” or a “job” to
accomplish this until it is too late. The result of that is… lots of times we just remember when the disks are full, and
BizTalk stops working!
NOTE : Did you know that you can push your BizTalk database backup files to Azure blob storage? This can
be particularly handy when you have deployed BizTalk on Azure VM’s! Read more about that in this
article: Configure the Backup Job.
You can solve this problem by implementing your custom sp_DeleteBackupHistory or by creating a Maintenance Plan
to delete the BizTalk Database Backups files.
Implementing a custom sp_DeleteBackupHistory

To implement a custom sp_DeleteBackupHistory you need to:
• Start SQL Server Management Studio and then connect to the BizTalk Management Database. By default, this
database is named BizTalkMgmtDb
• Click New Query to open a Query Editor window
• Run the following Transact-SQL script to create the sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndFiles stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndFiles] @DaysToKeep smallint = null

AS
BEGIN
set nocount on
IF @DaysToKeep IS NULL OR @DaysToKeep <= 1
RETURN
/* Only delete full sets
If a set spans a day in such a way that some items fall into the deleted group and the other does not, do not delete

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the set */
DECLARE DeleteBackupFiles CURSOR
FOR SELECT 'del "' + [BackupFileLocation] + '\' + [BackupFileName] + '"' FROM [adm_BackupHistory]
WHERE datediff(dd, [BackupDateTime], getdate()) >= @DaysToKeep
AND [BackupSetId] NOT IN (SELECT [BackupSetId] FROM [dbo].[adm_BackupHistory] [h2] WHERE
[h2].[BackupSetId] = [BackupSetId] AND datediff(dd, [h2].[BackupDateTime], getdate()) < @DaysToKeep)
DECLARE @cmd varchar(400)
OPEN DeleteBackupFiles
FETCH NEXT FROM DeleteBackupFiles INTO @cmd
WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1)
BEGIN
IF (@@fetch_status <> -2)
BEGIN
EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @cmd, NO_OUTPUT
delete from [adm_BackupHistory] WHERE CURRENT OF DeleteBackupFiles
print @cmd
END
FETCH NEXT FROM DeleteBackupFiles INTO @cmd
END
CLOSE DeleteBackupFiles
DEALLOCATE DeleteBackupFiles
END
GO
• Change the “Clear Backup History” step of the Backup BizTalk Server job, so that it calls the
sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndFiles stored procedure instead of the sp_DeleteBackupHistory stored procedure
However, personally I don’t like this approach for two main reasons:
• I avoid changing the scripts of the BizTalk standard jobs

• I also believe that this approach is very limited and doesn’t allow the flexibility that we all want
Instead, I really prefer to take advantage of all features that SQL Server gives me and create a Maintenance Plan with
a Cleanup task to remove these files.
Implementing a Maintenance Plan to clean BizTalk Database backup files

Maintenance Plans allow DBA’s to have the flexibility to create a workflow to execute several tasks, required to make
sure that the databases are optimized, regularly backed up, and free of inconsistencies. However, almost all these
tasks are warranted by the existing BizTalk jobs. So, the only reason we need Maintenance Plans is to create a task to
clean the BizTalk Database backup files from our file system.
The main advantage of this approach is that this gives us more flexibility for further changes, and we can also use them
for other backups that we have.
NOTE : You should ensure that the SQL Server Agent service is running, because the Maintenance Plans
depend on the Microsoft SQL Server Agent in order to run on a regular basis.
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IMPORTANT NOTE : this example is created to run in a developer machine, so if you are implementing this
approach in production environments make sure to keep the backups for the time you see that fit your
requirements or make sure the backups are saved in an external storage, before you delete these files
from the file system.
To create the maintenance plan, you need to:
• Open the SQL Server Management Studio by pressing the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen, type “SSMS”
or “SQL Server Management” and click on the “SQL Server Management Studio” option from the Search menu
• Expand the server and then the “Management” folder
• Right click “Maintenance Plans” and select “Maintenance Plan Wizard”. This launches the wizard and you can now
step through and create a plan customized to meet your maintenance requirements
• On the SQL Server Maintenance Plan Wizard page, click “Next”
• On the “Select Plan Properties” page:

o In the “Name”: enter the name of the maintenance plan you are creating

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▪ Clean BizTalk Databases Backup files
o In the “Description”: enter a brief description of your maintenance plan
▪ This will clean BizTalk Database backup files from the file system after X day(s)
o In the “Run as”: specify the credentials that Microsoft SQL Server Agent uses when executing the
maintenance plan – leave the default
o Select “Single schedule for the entire plan or no schedule” to specify the recurring schedule of the
maintenance plan
o Under Schedule, click “Change…”

▪ Under “Frequency”, in the “Occurs” dropdown box, select “Daily” and in the “Recurs every” box,
enter how often the job schedule repeats, in days: 1 Day
▪ Under “Daily frequency”, select “Occurs once at” and specify the time of day when the job schedule
should run: 12:00:00
▪ Leave the default values for the rest of the properties and click “OK”
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• Back to the Select Plan properties page, click “Next”
• On the “Select Maintenance Tasks” page, select “Maintenance Cleanup Task” from the list and click “Next”
• On the “Select Maintenance Task Order” page, click “Next” to continue

• On the “Define Maintenance Cleanup Task” page, specify the following properties:
o Under “Delete files of the following type”: select “Backup files”
o Select “Search folder and delete files based on an extension” to delete all files with the specified extension
in the specified folder
▪ Under “Folder”: specify the path and name of the folder containing the files to be deleted
▪ Under “File extension”: Provide the file extension of the files to be deleted
▪ Select also “Include first-level subfolders” option, if to want to delete the files also from first-level
subfolders under the folder specified in Folder
o Select “Delete files based on the age of the file at task run time” and specify the minimum age of the files
that you want to delete under “Delete files older than the following” property
▪ Specify 1 Day
o Click “Next”

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• On the “Select Report Options” page, unselect all options and then click “Next”
• On the “Complete the Wizard” page, verify the choices made on the previous pages and click Finish
• On the Maintenance Wizard Progress page, verify if every action was successfully executed and then click “Close”
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Pre-allocate space and define auto growth settings for BizTalk Server databases
By default, the BizTalk Server databases are defined with small files size and with the parameter “Auto growth” set to:
• Increase by 1 MB for the database file

• Increase by 10% for the log file
So, what’s the problem with these settings?
The Auto growth setting plays an important role in BizTalk configuration for performance reasons, why?
SQL Server database auto growth is a blocking operation, which hinders BizTalk Server database performance. When
SQL Server increases the size of a file, it must first initialize the new space before it can be used. This is a blocking
operation that involves filling the new space with empty pages.
Therefore, it’s recommended to:
• Set this value (databases auto-growth) to a fixed value of megabytes instead of a percentage, so SQL server doesn’t
waste its resources expanding the data and log files during heavy processing. This is especially true for the
MessageBox and Tracking (DTA) databases:
o In a high throughput BizTalk Server environment, the MessageBox and Tracking databases can significantly
increase. If auto growth is set to a percentage, then auto growth will be substantial as well.
o As a guideline for auto growth, for large files increment should be no larger than 100 MB, for medium-sized
files 10 MB, or for small files 1 MB.
o This should be done in such a way that, if auto growth occurs, it does so in a measured fashion. This reduces
the likelihood of excessive database growth.
• Also, allocate sufficient space for the BizTalk Server databases, in advance to minimize the occurrence of database
auto growth.
How can I implement these optimizations?
You can do these optimizations in two ways:

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• Manually, by opening “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio”
o Maximize your SQL Server and then Databases
o Right click on the database, for example “BizTalkMsgBoxDb” and select the “Properties” option
o On the Database Properties window, select the Files page option and then you can check and change the
Autogrowth property associated to database and log file.
However, checking and changing all BizTalk databases manually is too much work and can be a little boring…
• You can do this by running the following SQL Script:
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkMgmtdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = BizTalkMgmtDb_log , SIZE = 512MB , FILEGROWTH =
100MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkMsgBoxDb MODIFY FILE (NAME = BizTalkMsgBoxDb , SIZE = 2GB , FILEGROWTH =
100MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkMsgBoxDb MODIFY FILE (NAME = BizTalkMsgBoxDb_log , SIZE = 2GB , FILEGROWTH =
100MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE SSODB MODIFY FILE (NAME = SSODB , SIZE = 512MB , FILEGROWTH = 100MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE SSODB MODIFY FILE (NAME = SSODB_log , SIZE = 512MB , FILEGROWTH = 100MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BAMPrimaryImport MODIFY FILE (NAME = BAMPrimaryImport , SIZE = 150MB , FILEGROWTH =
10MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BAMPrimaryImport MODIFY FILE (NAME = BAMPrimaryImport_log , SIZE = 150MB ,
FILEGROWTH = 10MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BAMArchive MODIFY FILE (NAME = BAMArchive , SIZE = 70MB , FILEGROWTH = 10MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BAMArchive MODIFY FILE (NAME = BAMArchive_log , SIZE = 200MB , FILEGROWTH = 10MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkRuleEngineDb MODIFY FILE ( NAME = BizTalkRuleEngineDb , FILEGROWTH = 1024KB )
GO
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkRuleEngineDb MODIFY FILE ( NAME = BizTalkRuleEngineDb_log , FILEGROWTH =
1024KB )
GO
The execution of this SQL script will automatically set the values for all BizTalk Server databases, according to what is
recommended. Not only the auto growth property, but also the database and log file size:
• BizTalkDTADb (BizTalk Tracking database): Data file having a file size of 2 GB with 100 MB growths and a log file
of 1 GB with 100 MB growths.
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• BizTalkMgmtdb (BizTalk Management database): Data file having a file size of 512 MB with 100 MB growths and
a log file of 512 MB with 100 MB growths.
• SSODB (SSO database): Data file having a file size of 512 MB with 100 MB growths and a log file of 512 MB with
100 MB growths.
• BizTalkMsgBoxDb (BizTalk MessageBox database): Data file having a file size of 2 GB with 100 MB growths and a
log file of 2 GB with 100 MB growths.
• BAMPrimaryImport (BAM Primary Import database): Data file having a file size of 150 MB with 10 MB growths
and a log file of 150 MB with 100 MB growths.
• BAMArchive (BAM Archive): Data file having a file size of 70 MB with 10 MB growths and a log file of 200 MB with
10 MB growths.
• BizTalkRuleEngineDb (Rule Engine database): Data file with 1 MB growth and a log file with 1 MB growth.
NOTE : These values were used for a standalone environment. In a high throughput BizTalk Server
environment, you should consider dividing the BizTalkMsgBoxDb into 8 data files, each having a file size of
2 GB with 100 MB growths and a log file of 20 GB with 100 MB growths. Because the BizTalk MessageBox
databases are the most active, we recommend you place the data files and transaction log files on
dedicated drives to reduce the likelihood of problems with disk I/O contention, as is explained here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee377048.aspx.
EXEC dbo.sp_helpdb BizTalkMsgBoxDb

ALTER DATABASE BizTalkMsgBoxDb MODIFY FILE (NAME = BizTalkMsgBoxDb , FILENAME =
'J:\BizTalkMsgBoxDb.mdf' , SIZE = 2GB , FILEGROWTH = 100MB)
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkMsgBoxDb ADD FILE (NAME = BizTalkMsgBoxDb_2 , FILENAME =
'J:\BizTalkMsgBoxDb_2.ndf' , SIZE = 2GB , FILEGROWTH = 100MB)
GO
ALTER DATABASE BizTalkMsgBoxDb MODIFY FILE (NAME = BizTalkMsgBoxDb_log , FILENAME =
'K:\BizTalkMsgBoxDb_log.LDF', SIZE = 20GB , FILEGROWTH = 100MB)
GO
The script can be found and download on Microsoft TechNet Gallery: Pre-allocate space and define auto-growth
settings for BizTalk Server databases.
Configure BizTalk Server Windows Services

By default, the “Startup type” propriety of BizTalk Windows Services, Enterprise Single Sign-On Service, Microsoft UDDI
Notification Service and the BAMAlerts service are set as “Automatic”. However, some of these Windows Services may
not start automatically after a system restart. To avoid this behavior, you must configure the “Startup type” to
“Automatic (Delayed Start)” option in these services:

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• BAMAlerts
• Rule Engine Update Service
The previous version of BizTalk Server also had this problem for:
• Enterprise Single Sign-On Service

• BizTalk Service BizTalk Group : BizTalkServerApplication Service
• Despite being configured as “Automatic”, the Recovery properties are configured properly to restart the service
after failures
• The Startup type should be changed for “Automatic (Delayed Start)”
To properly configure the BizTalk Services, “Enterprise Single Sign-On Service” and “BAMAlerts” Windows service:
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• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, type “Services” and click on “View local services” option from
the Search window
• In the Services window, on the Services (Local) panel select the service for example “BAMAlerts”, right click and
select “Properties” option
• On the BAMAlerts Properties (Local Computer) window:

o On the General tab apply the following configuration.
▪ Startup type: “Automatic (Delayed Start)”
o On the Recovery tab, apply the following configuration:

▪ First failure: “Restart the Service”
▪ Second failure: “Restart the Service”
▪ Subsequent failures: “Restart the Service”
▪ Reset fail count after … day: 1
▪ Restart service after … minutes: 1

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o Click “OK” to apply the changes and close the window
• Repeat the steps for the other services
You could and should apply the same Recovery properties configurations for the SQL Server services:
• SQL Full-text Filter Daemon Launcher

• SQL Server
• SQL Server Agent
• SQL Server Analysis Services *
• SQL Server Browser
• SQL Server Integration Services *
• SQL Server CEIP service
• SQL Server Launchpad
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• SQL Server VSS Writer
By default, they are configured as “Take No Action”
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And should be configured as:
• Startup type: “Automatic”

• and First, Second and Subsequent failures: “Restart the Service”
Install and configure BizTalk Health Monitor

BizTalk Health Monitor is a snap-in. Basically, it’s the same as the BizTalk MsgBoxViewer tool, that we used to monitor
a BizTalk environment by gathering all information of a BizTalk group and detecting any issues, non-critical or critical
warnings to detect any potential problems in advance. But in this case, BizTalkHealth Monitor is integrated more
closely with the BizTalk Administration Console, to provide BizTalk administrators a quick and complete dashboard of
a BizTalk group, which will help them to monitor the health of their BizTalk platform.
You can download the standalone version of BHM from Microsoft Download Center here: BizTalk Health Monitor.
Note that, at the time of writing, BHM officially does not support BizTalk Server 2020. So, use of bHM against BizTalk
Server 2020 is at your own risk!
Prerequisites:
• BizTalk Server 2010, 2013 or 2016 should be installed and configured
How to register BizTalk Health Monitor Snap-In
After you have downloaded the BHM42.exe file from the Microsoft Download Center, you need to unzip it. Next, use
the “BHMSetup.exe”, which comes with the BizTalk Health Monitor tool to register the BHM snap-in.
IMPORTANT NOTE : Unzip the BHM42.exe to a final destination before you register the snap-in for example:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server Support Tools\BHMv4.2”. Once you register the BizTalk
Health Monitor Snap-In you cannot delete the folder or BHM will stop working.
NOTE : New versions of the BHM snap-in (version 3.1 and later) don’t include the “InstallUtil.exe” file anymore:
• You can still use the old “InstallUtil.exe” file to register the snap-in (but you need to copy this file to
the BHM folder – see Installing the new BizTalk Health Monitor snap-in on Biztalk Server 2010 or
BizTalk Server 2013)
• Instead, you should use the “BHMSetup.exe” file now which will register the snap-in (see BizTalk
Health Monitor v3.1 released!) in a simpler way.
To accomplishes that, we need to:
• Navigate to the directory file where you unzipped the BHMv42.exe file
o For example C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server Support Tools\BHMv4.2
• Launch “BHMSetup.exe” as an administrator
• Under Options you can:
o Change the installation location of BHM
o Choose to create a shortcut of BHM on the desktop
o Choose to launch BHM after the setup is completed

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o Choose to include the BizTalk Server Administration Console in the BHM MMC.
▪ Note, that this doesn’t replace the existing BizTalk Administration Console. In order to integrate
the BizTalk Admin Console with BHM in BizTalk 2020, see HOW TO INTEGRATE BHM SNAP-IN INTO
BIZTALK ADMIN CONSOLE section.
• Click on “Start Installing” to begin the installation. You will get a message when the installation gets completed. It
shouldn’t take more than a few seconds.
How to integrate BHM Snap-In into BizTalk Admin Console
IMPORTANT NOTE : BHM Snap-In can be used independently, and it doesn't need to be integrated with the
BizTalk Administration Console. The handicap of this approach is, that a BizTalk Administrator will need to
use two different places/tools to monitor and administrate the environment.
To make life for BizTalk Administrators easier, the BHM Snap-In can also be integrated, so that it can be used within
the BizTalk Administration Console.
To accomplish that we need to open a 32-bit Microsoft Management Console (MMC):
• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu, type “mmc /32” and right-click in “mmc /32” option from the
Search window and select “Run as administrator” option:
o mmc /32
o This will open a new 32-bit version of MMC (MMC32).
• From MMC console, go to File menu and select the “Options…” option
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o In the text box, replace “Console1” for “BizTalk Administration Console”
o In the Console mode combo box, select “User mode – full access”
o Confirm that the option “Do not save changes to this console” is unchecked
• From MMC console, go to the File menu and select the “Add/Remove Snap-in…” option
• From the “Add or Remove Snap-ins” window, add the following snap-ins and then click Ok
o Microsoft BizTalk Server Administration
o BizTalk Health Monitor

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o Event Viewer
▪ It will open a new window and you should select “Local Computer” option
o You can add the snap-ins by selecting them from the “Available snap-ins” list and click “Add >”
o Is recommend that you respect the order present in the “Selected snap-ins” list as shown in the picture
above
• This will generate a new MMC for us which contains both the BizTalk Server Administration and BizTalk Health
Monitor. By now, your new MMC which shows both the BizTalk Server Administration and BizTalk Health Monitor
is ready
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Now you might want to save this as a new .msc file, so that you don’t have to repeat these steps again. But, before we
complete the creation process of the “new” BizTalk Administration Console, I recommend that you navigate to the
BizTalk Server Installation folder:
• Example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020

• Rename “BTSmmc.msc” file, for example: “BTSmmc-old.msc”
This is because we will save the “new” BizTalk Administration Console as “BTSmmc.msc”, so that you don’t need to
create new shortcuts or having different ways to access the BizTalk Administration Console. However, this step is
optional!
To finish the creation process of the “new” BizTalk Administration Console
• From MMC console, go to File menu and select “Save As…” option:
o Give a name and then save it.
▪ Access to BizTalk Server Installation folder
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020
▪ Save the file as “BTSmmc.msc”
From next time onwards, when you open the BizTalk Server Administration Console, the “new” BizTalk Administration
Console will be incorporated with the BizTalk Health Monitor.
You can download the standalone version of BHM from Microsoft Download Center here: BizTalk Health Monitor
Install SSO Configuration Application MMC Snap-In

BizTalk Server leverages the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for securely storing critical information such
as secure configuration properties (for example, the proxy user ID, and proxy password) for the BizTalk adapters.
Therefore, BizTalk Server requires SSO to work properly. BizTalk Server automatically installs SSO on every computer
where you install the BizTalk Server runtime.
But SSO also can keep your own application configuration data in the SSO database. Let’s say the usual configuration
that we normally keep in a configuration file (“app.config”). One of the great and useful tools that we normally use for
archiving this is a custom tool originally created by Richard Seroter, the: SSO Config Data Store Tool.
However, since 2009 Microsoft released an MMC snap-in to tackle this exact issue. The SSO Configuration Application
MMC Snap-In provides the ability to add and manage applications, add and manage key-value pairs in the SSO
database, as well as import and export configuration applications, so that they can be deployed to different
environments.
To install SSO Configuration Application MMC Snap-In you need to:
• Unzip the SSOConfigurationMMCSnapIn.zip file available from the Microsoft web site
• This file is composed of three zip files, so after unzipping the first file you should unzip also the
SSOMMCSnapInSetup.zip file
• Run the setup.exe or SSOMMCSnapInSetup.msi file as Administrator
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• In the Select Installation Folder page:
o Accept the default installation folder or set another one
o In the “Install SSO Application for yourself, or for anyone who uses this computer” option, select “Everyone”
o Click “Next”
• In the Enter Company Name page, enter the name of your company and click “Next”
• In the Confirm Installation page, click “Next” to install the SSO Application Configuration MMC Snap-In
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• In the Installation Complete page, click “Close”
However, unfortunately, this tool will not work properly in BizTalk Server 2020, and we need to apply a fix to it. At first
sight, it seems that everything is working properly but when you try to create a key-value pair you will see that nothing
happens and no key is created:
To fix this issue, I recompiled the SSOMMCSnapIn.dll using the latest version of
“Microsoft.EnterpriseSingleSignOn.Interop.dll” available with BizTalk Server 2020. You can download it at Microsoft
TechNet Gallery: BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Fix for SSO Configuration Application MMC Snap-In.
To solve the issue, you just need to overwrite the existing SSOMMCSnapIn.dll file, normally present in “C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On” folder, with this version of the file. Now if you try to add a new key-
value pair everything will work fine.

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An alternative to this DLL overwrite hotfix, is that you can choose to configure an assembly redirection in the machine
config:
<assemblyBinding xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1” appliesTo=”v4.0.30319”>

<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name=”Microsoft.EnterpriseSingleSignOn.Interop” publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35”
culture=”neutral” />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion=”5.0.1.0” newVersion=”10.0.1000.0”/>
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
Configure BizTalk Jobs History (Microsoft SQL Server Agent job history log)
Have you ever noticed that you never have a log history of the Monitor BizTalk Server job?
The reason why this happens is that BizTalk Server is shipped out with a total of 13 SQL Agent jobs. Most of them are
running each minute, some exceptions are for example the Monitor BizTalk Server job that by default occurs every
week on Sunday at 00:00:00 and the BizTalk Server Backup job that occurs every 15 minutes.
To be completely honest, there are two problems present:
• We rarely inspect our environment during the weekend; only in critical situations or customers that have a 24x7
administration team
• By default, the Microsoft SQL Server Agent job history log is configured to
o “Limit size of job history log” with a maximum of 1000 rows
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o And “Maximum job history row per job” with 100 rows
This means that a few minutes after the Monitor BizTalk Server job run successfully or unsuccessfully, its history is
overwritten with the row log history of the remaining 12 jobs. Therefore, never expect to have the history of this job
on Monday, when you arrive at the office.
Because BizTalk Server has 13 Jobs to keep a decent and consistent job history log, you should increase the “Limit size
of job history log” according to the number of existing jobs in your environment, for example at least 1300 for BizTalk
Server environment (100 for each job)
To resize the job history log based on raw size

• In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine, and then expand that instance
• Right click SQL Server Agent and then click Properties
• Select the History page and then confirm that Limit size of job history log is checked
• In the Maximum job history log size box, enter the maximum number of rows the job history log should allow
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To resize the job history log based on time
• In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine, and then expand that instance
• Right click SQL Server Agent, and then click Properties
• Select the History page and then click Remove agent history
o Select the appropriate number of Days(s), Week(s), or Month(s)
Force Full Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) job

BizTalk Server databases and their health are very important for a successful BizTalk Server database messaging
environment. BizTalk is shipped out with a total of 13 SQL Agent jobs that perform important functions to keep your
servers operational and healthy.
Like any other system, all BizTalk Server databases should be backed up and BizTalk Server provides an out-of-the-box
job for accomplishing that; the Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) job.
This job makes both Full and Log backups. By default, the Backup BizTalk Server job performs a full backup once a day
and performs log backups every 15 minutes. This means that once the full backup is performed you need to wait 24
hours before it to will automatically do another full backup of the BizTalk Server databases… even if you try to manually
run the job, it will only make the backups of the log files.
But sometimes we need, for several reasons, to have the ability and the possibility to force a full backup:
• We will have some maintaining plan on the server, or apply a new configuration, and we want to back up the
environment
• Or simply, we will install a new integration application and again we want to have a backup in this exact moment
Each company has their own policies. So again, for several reasons, we sometimes need to force a full backup of all
BizTalk Server databases.
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The standard way is to use the “BizTalkMgmtDb.dbo.sp_ForceFullBackup” stored procedure. However, and unlike
what many people think, this stored procedure does not perform a full backup. It only marks internally in the BizTalk
Server databases, that the next time the Backup BizTalk Server job runs, it will need to perform a full backup of the
data and log files.
All BizTalk Admins know this (if they don’t know, they should!), however sometimes we need to rely on DBA Admins
to perform this task and do not misunderstand me, I have nothing against DBA’s! All the BizTalk Administration teams
should be composed of several elements with different skills: DBA Admins, network admins, Sys Admins and BizTalk
Admins…, each playing their own role. But sometimes, a DBA doesn’t really understand the BizTalk infrastructure and
the BizTalk Administrator should have an important role in advising and helping them (like in other situations it will be
the opposite).
Because this is not a day by day task, people tend to forget all the steps and sometimes they will create custom scripts
to perform this task, but you really need to be aware of two important things:
• The Backup BizTalk Server job is the only supported method for backing up the BizTalk Server databases. Use of
SQL Server jobs to back up the BizTalk Server databases in a production environment is not supported
• You can use the SQL Server methods to back up the BizTalk Server databases only if the SQL Server service is
stopped and if all BizTalk Server processes are stopped
So, to help one of my DBA teams, I ended up creating this job that is composed of two steps:
• Step 1: Force Full Backup

o This will call the “BizTalkMgmtDb.dbo.sp_ForceFullBackup” stored procedure
• Step 2: Backup BizTalk Server
o This will call the standard Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) job
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You can download the custom “Force Full Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)” Job from Microsoft | TechNet
Gallery: Force Full Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) Job.
Managing and cleaning BizTalk Server MarkLog database tables

All the BizTalk databases which are being backed up by the ‘Backup BizTalk Server’ job, so all databases, with the
exception of the BAM Star Schema database (BAMStarSchema), have a table called “MarkLog”.
These tables are holding all the transaction marks (they are actually timestamps in a string format), set to a specific
database, created by the third step (MarkAndBackUpLog) of the ‘Backup BizTalk Server’ job. This step,
MarkAndBackupLog, is responsible for marking the logs for backup, and then backing them up. So, each time this step
runs, by default each 15 minutes, a new record containing a string is stored in that table, with the following naming
convention:
• Log_<yyyy>_<MM>_<dd>_<HH>_<mm>_<ss>_<fff>
where:
• “Log”: Constant string

• yyyy: The year as a four-digit number
• MM: The month, from 01 through 12
• dd: The day of the month, from 01 through 31
• HH: The hour, using a 24-hour clock from 00 to 23
• mm: The minute, from 00 through 59
• ss: The second, from 00 through 59
• fff: The milliseconds in a date and time value
Again, these marks are timestamps in which the Log backups were set to be made. Example:
• BTS_2020_03_30_14_15_01_327
Unfortunately, BizTalk has no out-of-the-box possibilities to clean up these tables. The normal procedure is to run the
terminator tool (that is now included in the BizTalk Health Monitor snap-in) to clean it up.
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BizTalk Terminator, which is now part of BizTalk health Monitor, is an excellent tool that allows common BizTalk
problems to be addressed by scripts which are provided by the BizTalk Team from Microsoft. But, the tools needs to
be used carefully and by users who know what they are doing.
Although most of the times this is an extremely useful tool and our friend, in this particular operation/situation, using
this tool is not really the best option, for the following two reasons:
• Using this tool means that we need to stop our environment, i.e., downtime in our integration platform
• If we look at the description of this “PURGE Marklog table” task, it says that this operation calls a SQL script that
cleans up everything in Marklog table – and maybe this is not a best practice!
You also need to analyze some important questions, in order to find and define some of the best practices to maintain
these tables:
Is this information (timestamps) useful for BizTalk Administrators? Should I clean all the data inside this tables or
should I maintain a history?
For the same reason that we maintain a Backup history in the Adm_BackupHistory table, controlled by the step “Clear
Backup History” of the ‘Backup BizTalk Server’ job, this information is important, for example, to keep an eye on the
backup/log shipping history records to see whether the backup is working correctly and data/logs are restored
correctly in the standby environment. The information on the MarkLog tables is also useful for the BizTalk
Administration team!
So, as long as the MarkLog tables have the same info (data from the same dates) as the backup job days to keep
parameter, you can safely delete the rest of the information.
As a best practice: you should respect the @DaysToKeep parameter that is specified in the “Clear Backup History” step
of the ‘Backup BizTalk Server’ job.
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Is it safe to clean this information in runtime?
The rows in the Marklog table are not “required” and can be cleaned whenever you want as long the BizTalk Backup
Job is not running.
Cleaning MarkLog Tables According to Some of the Best Practices
The main challenge is how can we safely delete and maintain a history of all MarkLog tables according to some of the
best practices described earlier?
My first approach was creating a new job that, according to a schedule, would run a stored procedure to delete all the
unnecessary information in those tables. But I realized I could have two problems with this approach:
• I need to be sure that BizTalk Backup Job wasn’t running performing the backups
• I didn’t want to have two places to define the @DaysToKeep and I didn’t want to make unnecessary joins or
additional selects
So, I ended up recreating sp_DeleteBackupHistory (that is configured is the Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)
job in the last step) with a different name sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory and configure the job to run
this step:
USE [BizTalkMgmtDb]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory] Script Date:
22/05/2014 17:59:15 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory] @DaysToKeep smallint = null,
@UseLocalTime bit = 0
AS
BEGIN
set nocount on
IF @DaysToKeep IS NULL OR @DaysToKeep <= 0
RETURN
/*
Only delete full sets
If a set spans a day such that some items fall into the deleted group and the other
don't don't delete the set
Delete history only if the history of full Backup exists at a later point of time
why: a history of a full backup is used in sp_BackupAllFull_Schedule to check if a
full backup of databases is required or not.
If the history of a full backup is not present, the job will take a full backup
irrespective of other options (frequency, Backup hour)
*/
declare @PurgeDateTime datetime

if (@UseLocalTime = 0)
set @PurgeDateTime = DATEADD(dd, -@DaysToKeep, GETUTCDATE())
else
set @PurgeDateTime = DATEADD(dd, -@DaysToKeep, GETDATE())
DELETE [dbo].[adm_BackupHistory]
FROM [dbo].[adm_BackupHistory] [h1]
WHERE [BackupDateTime] < @PurgeDateTime
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AND [BackupSetId] NOT IN ( SELECT [BackupSetId] FROM [dbo].[adm_BackupHistory] [h2] WHERE
[h2].[BackupSetId] = [h1].[BackupSetId] AND [h2].[BackupDateTime] >= @PurgeDateTime)
AND EXISTS( SELECT TOP 1 1 FROM [dbo].[adm_BackupHistory] [h2] WHERE [h2].[BackupSetId] >
[h1].[BackupSetId] AND [h2].[BackupType] = 'db')
/********************************************************************************************
********
Delete all the non referenced MarkLog rows in the BizTalk group.
These rows are not removed by default.
The logic for cursors and real server name is "stolen" from the BizTalk procedure
sp_MarkBTSLogs.
The cursor iterates all the databases that are backed up by BizTalk.
****************************************************************************************************
/
declare
@localized_string_sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory_Failed_sp_GetRemoteServerNameFailed
nvarchar(128)
set
@localized_string_sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory_Failed_sp_GetRemoteServerNameFailed =
N'sp_GetRemoteServerName failed to resolve server name %s'
declare @localized_string_sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory_Failed_Deleting_Mark
nvarchar(128)
set @localized_string_sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory_Failed_Deleting_Mark =
N'Failed running the deleting mark log proc on %s'
DECLARE @BackupServer sysname, @BackupDB sysname, @RealServerName sysname, @errorDesc

nvarchar(128)
DECLARE @tsql nvarchar(1024)
DECLARE @ret int, @error int
/* Create a cursor */
DECLARE BackupDB_Cursor insensitive cursor for
SELECT ServerName, DatabaseName
FROM admv_BackupDatabases
ORDER BY ServerName
open BackupDB_Cursor
fetch next from BackupDB_Cursor into @BackupServer, @BackupDB
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
-- Get the proper server name
EXEC @ret = sp_GetRemoteServerName @ServerName = @BackupServer, @DatabaseName =
@BackupDB, @RemoteServerName = @RealServerName OUTPUT
IF @@ERROR <> 0 OR @ret IS NULL OR @ret <> 0 OR @RealServerName IS NULL OR

len(@RealServerName) <= 0
BEGIN
SET @errorDesc = replace(
@localized_string_sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory_Failed_sp_GetRemoteServerNameFailed,
N'%s', @BackupServer )
RAISERROR( @errorDesc, 16, -1 )
GOTO FAILED
END
/* Create the delete statement */

select @tsql =
'DELETE FROM [' + @RealServerName + '].[' + @BackupDB + '].[dbo].[MarkLog]
WHERE DATEDIFF(day, REPLACE(SUBSTRING([MarkName],5,10),''_'',''''), GETDATE())
> ' + cast(@DaysToKeep as nvarchar(5) )

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/* Execute the delete statement */
EXEC (@tsql)
SELECT @error = @@ERROR
IF @error <> 0 or @ret IS NULL or @ret <> 0
BEGIN
SELECT @errorDesc = replace(
@localized_string_sp_DeleteBackupHistoryAndMarkLogsHistory_Failed_Deleting_Mark, '%s', @BackupServer
+ N'.' + @BackupDB )
GOTO FAILED
END
/* Get the next DB. */

fetch next from BackupDB_Cursor into @BackupServer, @BackupDB
END
close BackupDB_Cursor
deallocate BackupDB_Cursor
GOTO DONE
FAILED:
SET @ret = -1
RAISERROR( @errorDesc, 16, -1 )
GOTO DONE
DONE:
RETURN @ret
END
Special thanks to Mikael Sand, Tord Glad Nordahl, Rui Romano and Pedro Sousa for the feedback and for being co-
authors for the implementation of the logic of this job.
The script can be found and downloaded on Microsoft TechNet Gallery: BizTalk Server: Cleaning MarkLog Tables
According to Some of the Best Practices.
Configure Hosts and Host Instances

One of the tasks that we need to do in all our new BizTalk environments, over and over again, is creating and
configuring the Hosts, Host Instances and of course the adapter handlers.
BizTalk Server provides great flexibility for addressing high availability, because you can strategically dedicate logical
hosts to run specific areas of functionality such as receiving messages, sending messages or processing orchestrations.
By default the BizTalk configuration will create two BizTalk Hosts and Host Instances:
• BizTalkServerApplication: This is the default Host and Host Instance, created during configuration, that will do all
the work in the BizTalk Server, i.e. is the default send and receive handler for all installed adapters (other than
HTTP, WCF (BasicHttp, CustomIsolated, WebHttp and WSHttp) and SOAP Receive Handlers) It is also used for
processing orchestrations and tracking.
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• BizTalkServerIsolatedHost: The logical container for HTTP, WCF (BasicHttp, CustomIsolated, WebHttp, and
WSHttp) and SOAP Receive Handlers.
Although a single BizTalk Host can contain items that receive, send, and process messages, it is considered a best
practice to create different hosts for each function to create security boundaries, for easier management and
scalability. In particular, we recommend that you use different hosts for processing and for receive/send operations
and that you separate trusted and non-trusted items.
What are Hosts, Host Instances and Adapter Handlers?

A BizTalk Host is a logical process and security boundary within BizTalk Server, that represents a logical set of zero or
more run-time processes in which you can deploy BizTalk Server services and artifacts (such as adapter handlers,
receive locations, and orchestrations). Each host has a security group assigned to it and may contain multiple host
instances, each on an individual machine, that perform the work of the host. The Host object also represents a
collection of runtime instances (zero or more) where the deployed items physically run. Hosts have the following
characteristics:
• Only one instance of a specific host can exist on each server

• You can map one host to multiple servers
In turn, a host instance is the physical instance of a host on a computer running BizTalk Server. Each host instance
belongs to exactly one host and the service account of the host instance belongs to the security group of the host. The
security group may be used to grant permissions to physical resources such as databases for use by any host instance
in the host. Host instances have the following characteristics:
• Host instances running on the servers are the physical containers of BizTalk objects
• You create a host instance when you map a server to a host
• Multiple host instances (of different hosts) can exist on a server
NOTE : After you create a host (a logical container), you can add physical BizTalk servers (host instances) to
the host. You cannot add a BizTalk server to the same host more than once. A single host instance can be
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The following figure will provide you with a general overview of the relationship between servers, hosts and host
instances. However, it is not intended to be the best practice. This architecture will depend on many factors and will
change from client to client:
An adapter handler is an instance of a BizTalk host in which the adapter code runs. When you specify a send or receive
handler for an adapter, you are specifying which host will run the adapter code. An adapter handler is responsible for
executing the adapter and contains properties for a specific instance of an adapter. A default BizTalk Server
configuration will create adapter handlers for all the installed adapters, but you may want to create additional adapter
handlers for purposes of load balancing or to provide process isolation for a particular adapter handler.
Best practices to Configuring Hosts and Host Instances

As the official documentation specify, in addition to the high availability aspects of the host instance configuration,
you should separate sending, receiving, processing, and tracking functionality into multiple hosts. This provides
flexibility when configuring the workload in your BizTalk group and is the primary means of distributing processing
across a BizTalk group.
This also allows you to stop one host without affecting other hosts. For example, you may want to stop sending
messages to let them queue up in the MessageBox database, while still allowing inbound receiving of messages to
occur.
Separating host instances by functionality also provides some of the following benefits:
• Each host instance has its own set of resources such as memory, handles, and threads in the .NET thread pool
• Multiple BizTalk Hosts will also reduce contention on the MessageBox database host queue tables, since each host
is assigned its own work queue tables in the MessageBox database
• Throttling is implemented in BizTalk Server at the host level. This allows you to set different throttling
characteristics for each host
• Security is implemented at the host level; each host runs under a discrete Windows identity
However, this also may bring some potential drawbacks if too many host instances are created, because each host
instance is a Windows service (BTSNTSvc.exe or BTSNTSvc64.exe), which generates additional load against the
MessageBox database and consumes the computer resources (such as CPU, memory, threads), so you need to be
careful.
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Normally we read that we need to create at least 4 hosts: sending, receiving, processing, and tracking, but that’s not
absolutely true because, at least since BizTalk Server is supported in 64 bits, we typically use 64-bits versions and in
this case, we also need to create at least one Host that will run in 32-bits because the FTP adapter, the SQL adapter
(deprecated), the POP3 adapter and the MIME Decoder in 64-bit host instances is not supported by the product
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560166.aspx)
We can define that one of the best practices for hosts and host instances is the following:
• BizTalkServerTrackingHost: A BizTalk Host that hosts tracking is responsible for moving the DTA and BAM tracking
data from the MessageBox database to the BizTalk Tracking (DTA) and BAM Primary Import databases. This
movement of tracking data has an impact on the performance of other BizTalk artifacts that are running in the
same host. Thus, you should use a dedicated host that does nothing but host tracking.
o Only the option “Allow Host Tracking” must be selected, because we only will use this host for tracking.
• BizTalkServerReceiveHost: All options (“Allow Host Tracking”, “32-bits only” or “Make this default host in the
group”) should be unselected. This host will be responsible for processing messages after they are picked up in a
receive location. When a host contains a receiving item, such as a receive location (with a pipeline), the message
decoding and decrypting occurs in a pipeline within this host.
o All receive handlers, except the isolated ones, like SOAP, HTTP, WCF-BasicHttp, WCF-WsHttp or WCF-
CustomIsolated and 32-bit adapters (FTP, SQL, and POP3) will be configured for this host. This will also
mean that all receive locations will run in this host.
• BizTalkServerReceive32Host: has the same goal as the previous host, however this must have the “32-bits only”
option selected so that we can run the 23-bits adapters.
o The receive handlers for the FTP, SQL and POP3 adapters will be configured for this host.
• BizTalkServerSendHost: All options (“Allow Host Tracking”, “32-bits only” or “Make this default host in the group”)
should be unselected. This host will be responsible for processing messages before they are sent out to the send
port. When a host contains a sending item, such as a send port, the message signing and encryption occurs in a
pipeline within this host.
o All send handlers, except 32-bit adapters, like the native SQL and FTP adapter, will be configured for this
host. This will mean also that all send ports will run in this host.
• BizTalkServerSend32Host: has the same goal as the previous host, however this must have the “32-bits only”
option selected so that we can run the 32-bits adapters.
o The Send handlers for the FTP and SQL adapters will be configured for this host.
• BizTalkServerApplication: Only the option “32-bits only” should be selected in this host. This host will be
responsible for processing messages based on the instructions in orchestrations that need to run in 32-bits.
• BizTalkServerApplication64Host: Only the option “Make this default host in the group” should be selected in this
host. This host will be responsible for processing messages based on the instructions in all or most common
orchestrations.
NOTE : You can create other Application Hosts if you want to separate processes based on application logic.
How can I automate this task?

Windows PowerShell is a Windows command-line shell designed especially for system administrators and can be used
by BizTalk administrators to help them in automating tasks.

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You can find a simple script to configure Hosts, Host Instances and Adapter Handlers described earlier for BizTalk
Server 2020 in TechNet Gallery: PowerShell to Configure BizTalk Server 2016 Host, Host Instances and Handlers.
Power Mode
The different performance states are dynamically managed by Windows in conjunction with hardware and platform
firmware to respond to varying workload requirements. The 3 default power plans exposed by Windows provide
varying tradeoffs of performance vs. power consumption. For example, if the High-Performance power plan is
selected, Windows places the system in the highest performance state and disables the dynamic scaling of
performance in response to varying workload levels. Therefore, special care should be taken before setting the power
plan to High Performance as this can increase power consumption unnecessarily when the system is underutilized.
In some cases, you may experience degraded overall performance on a machine when running with the default
(Balanced) power plan. The issue may occur irrespective of platform and may be exhibited on both native and virtual
environments. The degraded performance may increase the average response time for some tasks and cause
performance issues with CPU-intensive applications.
To change a power plan:
• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen and type “Power Plan” and click on the “Choose a power
plan” option from the Search menu
• From the power plan page, choose the High Performance option
• Close the Power Option window
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Consider setting the 'text in row' table option to boost BizTalk Server Performance
SQL Server provides a table option called text in row to declare that the contents of the fields of type text, ntext, or
image data, whose dimensions are smaller than those of a data page (8Kb), must be stored in a data row. By setting
this option on BizTalkMsgBoxDb tables (Parts table, Spool table, and DynamicStateInfo Tables), you can increase
message throughput when working with small messages, which have a small context and orchestrations that have a
small persistence size. This makes reading and writing the in-row strings about as fast as reading or writing limited size
varchar, nvarchar, or varbinary strings. Similarly, when the values are stored off-row, the Database Engine incurs an
additional page read or write.
How to exploit the Text in Row table option in BizTalk Server

The following section explains how and when applying the text in row table option, to boost BizTalk performance.
• Parts Table: When the message size is smaller than the dimensions of a data page that is of 8kb, applying the text
in row table option on the Parts table can lead to BizTalk Server performance improvement
• Spool Table: When the average size of the message context is less than 8 kb, enabling the text in row table option
on the Spool table helps you reduce the number of accesses when reading messages from the MessageBox along
with their context. To apply this option to the Spool table, you must eliminate unnecessary context properties
and distinguished fields to reduce the size of the message context lower than 8 Kb
• DynamicStateInfo Tables: These tables, one for each host, contain a field of type image called imgData that
contains binary-serialized orchestration state, when they encounter a persistence point during their execution.
When the internal state of orchestrations, within a host HostA, is so small that its size, once serialized, is less than
8 kb, the text in row technique can successfully be applied to the DynamicStateInfo_HostA table. Therefore, we
recommend that you keep the internal state of orchestrations as small as possible. This technique can
significantly reduce the time that is spent by the XLANG Engine to serialize, persist, de-serialize and restore the
internal state of an orchestration in case of persistence point
See more about this topic in the following resources:
• Post-Configuration Database Optimizations

• How to exploit the Text In Row table option to boost BizTalk Server Performance
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 Performance Optimization Guide
You can use the following settings sample that in your environment:
EXEC sp_tableoption N'Spool', 'text in row', '6000'

EXEC sp_tableoption N'Parts', 'text in row', '6000'
General network TCP settings that can impact BizTalk Server

This part of the paper focusses on configuring TCP setting on the BizTalk Server and the SQL Server machines, that can
impact BizTalk Server and that can prevent from occurring general network errors.
When I was analyzing my BizTalk environment with BizTalk Server Best Practice Analyzer tool, a warning appeared that
caught my attention:
Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) Signature Validation is Enabled on Server BTS2010LAB01.

On server BTS2010LAB01, Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) signature is enabled, which may cause some user-
authentication delay

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This led me to go deeper in trying to see what was causing this strange issue and I found a number of TCP settings that
need to be done (or is recommended), which can also prevent from occurring general network errors on BizTalk Server
Environments.
In the scenario described in this paper, we should apply the following TCP/IP settings:
• Disable the Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) features

o This needs to be done on the BizTalk Server and the SQL Server
• Disable Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC)
o This needs to be done on the BizTalk Server and the SQL Server
Check and if necessary, increase the ephemeral ports and reduce the TCP re-use timeout setting
o This needs to be done only on the BizTalk Server
How to Disable the Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) features

Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is used, under specific circumstances, to improve network performance However,
most environments do not have SNP capable network adapters/drivers. This can result in unexpected network
problems which is why it is recommended to disable SNP, unless a server can benefit from it.
To disable SNP features we need to:

• Disable TCP Chimney Offload in the operating system
o Use administrative credentials to open a command prompt.
o At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
▪ netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled
• Disable RSS in the operating system
o Use administrative credentials to open a command prompt
o At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
▪ netsh int tcp set global rss=disabled
• Disable NetDMA in the operating system
o Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK
o Locate the following registry subkey, and then click it:
▪ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
o Double-click the EnableTCPA registry entry
▪ NOTE : If this registry entry does not exist, right click Parameters, point to New, click DWORD
Value, type EnableTCPA, and then press ENTER
o To disable NetDMA, type 0 in the Value data box, and then click OK
To determine the current status of SNP features, follow these steps:
• Use administrative credentials to open a command prompt
• At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
o netsh int tcp show global
NOTE : you need to restart the computer first.
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How to Disable Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC)
The Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) is a function invoked within the Windows security system when you log on to
a system utilizing Kerberos. It is a network authentication protocol.
The Kerberos Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) contains all the group memberships for the security principal
requesting to access to a resource. PAC validation means a more secure environment, so why should be disabled?
When you run a high-volume server program on a domain member that uses Kerberos to authenticate users, you
experience a delay in the user authentication process. Additionally, you notice an increase in the remote procedure
call (RPC) traffic between the domain controller that uses the Net Logon RPC interface and the server. This problem
occurs because the Kerberos client verifies the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) signature in the Kerberos ticket by
using the domain controller. The Kerberos client performs this verification to prevent PAC spoofing. The increased
network traffic is generated by the RPC requests that are part of this verification process.
To disable PAC, we need to:
• Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK

• Locate the following registry subkey, and then click it:
o HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\Kerberos\Parameters
• Add the following registry entry
o Right click Parameters, point to New, click DWORD Value, type ValidateKdcPacSignature, and then press
ENTER
• To disable PAC, double click the ValidateKdcPacSignature registry entry, type 0 in the Value data box and then
click OK
How to Check and (if necessary) increase the ephemeral ports and reduce the TCP re-use timeout setting
When a client initiates a TCP/IP socket connection to a server, the client typically connects to a specific port on the
server and requests that the server responds to the client over an ephemeral, or short-lived, TCP or UDP port.
Under certain conditions, it is possible that the available ports in the default range will be exhausted. If this occurs,
the following symptoms may be observed:
• Client applications may fail to connect to the BizTalk Server

• The BizTalk Application service may fail to connect to a remote SQL Server
• BizTalk Server adapters may fail to connect to a remote server
To verify that one or more client applications are not generating excessive TCP/IP socket connections, perform the
following on the BizTalk servers in the group:
• From a command prompt window execute “netstat -ano -p tcp”

• Count the number of unique Local Address TCP ports open above 1024 for each IP address
If less than 3000 ephemeral ports are currently in use, then it’s fine. (Original source: Recommended Platform
Configuration for BizTalk Server by Abdul Rafay)
You can check or modify these settings at the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters registry

key. The recommended values are:

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• Registry name: MaxUserPort (This key is all pre-Vista behavior, applicable from NT4 through to Windows Server
2003)
o Value: 0xFFFE (65534)
o Comment: Prevents port exhaustion
• Registry name: TcpTimedWaitDelay
o Value: 0x1E (30)
o Comment: Release unused ports as quickly as possible
Or you can view the dynamic port range by using the following netsh commands:
• netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport tcp

• netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport udp
On all BizTalk servers running on Windows Server 2008 and later, there are 16383 ports (port 49152 to port 65535),
approximate times more ports than the default ports number in Windows Server 2003. Microsoft recommends that
you only increase the ephemeral ports if the default range is not enough. However, if you determine that additional
dynamic ports are needed, you can also use netsh command to modify these settings, as follows:
• netsh int <ipv4|ipv6> set dynamic <tcp|udp> start=number num=range
This command sets the dynamic port range for TCP. The start port is number, and the total number of ports is a range.
Example:
• netsh int ipv4 set dynamicport tcp start=10000 num=1000
These sample commands set the dynamic port range to start at port 10000 and to end at port 11000 (1000 ports).
Important notes:
• The minimum range of ports that can be set is 255

• The minimum starting port that can be set is 1025
• The maximum end port (based on the range being configured) cannot exceed 65535
See Microsoft Help and Support
In the end, you should restart BizTalk and SQL Servers.
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Installing BizTalk Server 2020 in a Basic

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Currently working as an Integrator consultant at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years,

You can contact Sandro at sandro-pereira@live.com.pt (Twitter: @sandro_asp)

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There will be 3 virtual servers:

• Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Create Domain Groups and Users.

Planning the use of a new Organizational Unit

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• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen

Windows Groups Used in BizTalk Server

Group Group Description Membership SQL Server Roles or

Contains the account used to run

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NSAdmin SQL Server

OLAP Administrators on the

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To create a new Group, follow these steps:

• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen

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• Repeat all the steps for the remaining groups

IIS_WPG and IIS_IUSRS Group (optional)

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Users and Service Accounts Used in BizTalk Server

User User Description Group Affiliation SQL Server Roles or Database

Suggestions: OPTIONAL: you don’t need to have a dedicated

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Suggestions: OPTIONAL: Only required if you configure/use

To create a new user, follow these steps:

• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen

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Summary of Users and Groups Affiliation

BizTalk Server Administrators group

User account responsible to run Microsoft BizTalk

SSO Affiliate Administrators BizTalk Server Administrators group

OPTIONAL: BizTalk Application Users (if your pipeline,

BizTalk Server Administrators BizTalk Administrator (optional)

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Your user (suggestion), user accounts responsible to

BizTalk Application Users BizTalk Host Instance Account

SSO Affiliate Administrators (Optional: if your pipeline,

BizTalk Isolated Host Users BizTalk Isolated Host Instance Account

SSO Affiliate Administrators (Optional: if your pipeline or

IIS_IUSRS Group (or/and IIS_WPG) BizTalk Isolated Host Instance Account

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BAM Management Web Service User

BAM Application Pool Account

SQL Server Service Accounts

User User Description

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SQL Server Database Services:

• SQL Server Agent

Types of startup accounts:

Changing Service Accounts:

• Press the “Windows key” to switch to the Start screen

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Join the Local Administrators Group

To add a member to a local group using the Windows interface:

• In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, do the following:

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Change the Machine name

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• The Administrators group on the local computer

Install Critical Windows Updates (optional)

• Press the “Windows key” to open the Start menu

• If prompted, restart your computer

Disable IPv6 (optional)

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