Frequently Asked Questions Dme
The following Frequently Asked Questions, answered by the authors of this book, are designed to both measure your understanding of the concepts presented in this chapter and to assist you with real-life implementation of these concepts. To have your questions about this chapter answered by the author, browse to www.syngress.com solutions and click on the Ask the Author form. Q I attempted to delete a BizTalk server from the BizTalk Server Group in the BizTalk Server Administration Microsoft...
Impersonation Level
Anonymous No identification of the client takes place, nor does the client hand over any credentials to the component. A component can never assume the identity of the client when calling another component. This is mandatory when a component on another computer is called. Identity The client's identity is established by the called component, and it can use this identity to perform access control checks see the section Access Control Lists . Note If a COM application component calls a component...
An Example of NET Server Integration
Let's walk through an example to illustrate how BizTalk Server 2000 fits into the .NET enterprise family.This is just one example BizTalk Server 2000 can work in a mixed environment just as easily as in a complete .NET solution. We will start with a customer purchasing an item through our company's Web site. Our Internet connection is protected via ISA Server 2000, allowing access to just a protected segment of our network called a DMZ . Our company can use Application Center 2000 to manage the...
BizTalk Messaging Binding Wizard
The BizTalk Messaging Binding Wizard is the last of the implementation technology wizards. It helps you create a port that is connected to a channel. 1. This step is the same as with message queuing you can Create a new port or use an Existing unbound port. 2. Click Next, and you are prompted for the Communication Direction Send or Receive. Note the remark This Wizard only enables receive through HTTP URLs. If you choose Receive, go to step 4. If you choose Send, proceed to the next step. 3....
ComponentLevel Security
We will now look at how we can apply security at the component level, and how you can link this with the security at the Windows 2000 Server level. Keep in mind that the extent and complexity of the security within Windows 2000 goes way beyond what we can discuss in this chapter. However, since COM is at the heart of BizTalk Server, it is important to understand the working of COM security and the way it ties in with the rest of the security. After installing BizTalk Server, there are four COM...
Why Use BizTalk
Information access is the key for business survival in the Information Age. In order to conduct business-to-business trading over the Internet, there is the need to easily share information. Businesses face numerous challenges when it comes to sharing information. Data exists in a variety of formats and there is no universal standard for sharing this data with others. Many businesses have even deployed applications within their company that cannot easily share data with each other. There have...
BizTalk Queue Management
Since the BizTalk Server is constantly going to be receiving and submitting documents, it is important to have a place to put those documents while we are waiting to process them. Figure 1.5 takes another look at the Administration tool. Now we are going to focus on the queues that you will have to work with as a BizTalk Server administrator. Figure 1.5 BizTalk Server Administration Microsoft Management Console Snap-In Figure 1.5 BizTalk Server Administration Microsoft Management Console...
Unattended Options
For situations in which you will be configuring several BizTalk servers either in the same or different server groups, you probably will want to avoid manually performing the installation on each server. Instead, use the silent installation features to help ensure that the servers have identical settings. For example, let's say that we have three servers that are going to be part of the same Server group and share SQL that is installed on a fourth server, such as BIZTALK, BIZTALK2, BIZTALK3,...
Modeling the Interactions
Now that you have reached your first milestone and everyone is convinced that the requirements are solid, it is time to start fleshing out the Use Case model and the Domain model by performing the next step Robustness Analysis.What this means is that you create a robustness diagram for every Use Case, which is similar to a UML collaboration diagram. Since you still want to build an object-oriented application, you need to close the void between the Problem domain and the Solution domain Figure...
TransportLevel Encoding
To let your BizTalk application exchange messages with other applications, they need to encode this data in such a way that information can be decoded without loss of information.This section discusses the widely used encode decode standard Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MIME . It was developed to enable mail programs to add other types of data to an e-mail. Before MIME-aware mail programs became available, you could only send plain text with binary attachments. MIME has become an...
Using XLANG Monitor
While other tools for analyzing distributed applications have existed for some time, Microsoft has provided us a new troubleshooting tool with BizTalk Server 2000 known as the XLANG Monitor. XLANG Monitor gives us the ability to manage our XLANG schedule instances and capture XLANG events. XLANG Monitor installs itself during a standard BizTalk Server 2000 installation, but does not appear on any menu or icon, so it can be easily overlooked. It is merely copied to a location on your disk. In a...
Locating the Errors
Now that we have discussed situations in which BizTalk doesn't even start, let's move our attention to when BizTalk starts generating some errors. The first order of business is to locate those errors for this, you will primarily visit two locations You can find both in the BizTalk Server Administration MMC. The default BizTalk installation displays an Application log view in the Event Viewer where the significant BizTalk errors will be logged Figure 10.6 . Almost every error that takes place...
Database Roles
As we discussed in the section Component Level Security, you are able to define roles within the database and give them permission to access database objects. However, roles have only meaning if you link roles to database users, which is a subset of the logins. Since the users who make use of the COM applications are the same as those accessing the database, it would be a good decision to add all BizTalk server-related users to the database logins list. Of course, you should use the role-based...
CryptoAPI
Cryptographic API was available in earlier Windows versions however, the solution is now more comprehensive and ties in better with the authentication security. CryptoAPI makes the use of cryptography within applications easier, more transparent, and portable. All the C-API calls remain the same, even if you change the cryptographic service provider CSP however, parameter values might change. If you take a closer look at how the CryptoAPI architecture is set up Figure 8.36 , you can identify...
Messaging Services Object Model
The BizTalk Messaging Services object model is a full-featured interface to the capabilities of BizTalk Messaging, with capabilities surpassing even what is possible to do from the Messaging Manager interface. BizTalk exposes this functionality via a COM type library called the Microsoft BizTalk Server Configuration Objects 1.0 Type Library, which enables you to use this object model from any COM-aware development language. In order to use this functionality from within Visual Basic, for...
Receipt Configuration
Receipt configuration consists of two separate tasks Requesting that a destination system send a receipt back to your organization Generating and sending a receipt in response to a request by a trading partner's system Both of these options are configured through the Channel wizard.The first option is accommodated by the Expect receipt check box.When requesting a receipt with this functionality, a document definition must be present in the system to handle the returned receipt.The second option...
BizTalk Document Tracking
Document tracking is a fundamental auditing mechanism in BizTalk Server 2000. Document tracking can be used to provide logging and verification of individual exchanges that occur on your BizTalk server. Depending on your particular business model, document tracking can be used to help maintain legal records of your business electronic transactions, help you respond to your customers' questions more quickly and easily, and also help in troubleshooting your document exchange configuration....
Advanced Queries
The Advanced Queries section of the document tracking application is one of the most powerful features of document management in BizTalk Server.Within the Advanced Query interface, you can interactively build queries to extract only the data of interest to you.The Advanced Query Builder page is shown in Figure 6.3. Figure 6.3 The Document Tracking Advanced Query Builder Page C te o cuieff tMt iiwithe o iow iy Mtlctvil mmlIi iLujjrfillh T'.yy'lyivy.I 'I 'I . This first element on this page is...