From the Microsoft site:

Better reliability, performance, and scale for the following key features:

• Throttling and dehydration of orchestrations.
• Archiving and purging operations.
• BAM alerts and archiving.
• HIPAA.
• Reduced memory consumption in scenarios using scripting functoids.
• Improvement in the bts_FindSubscription stored proc, resulting in faster execution and lower CPU utilization.

Better management and deployment experiences:

• Performance and user experience improvements of key scenarios.
• WCF configuration management.
• Significant improvement in deployment time for send ports using a map.

Improved support:

• X12 and EDIFACT updates.
• Increased footprint of supported FTP servers and locale.
• XMLDocument message types in orchestrations.
• Configurable timeout for Basic HTTP.
• WCF adaptor now suspends messages instead of terminating when the host instance is stopped.
• Configurable transaction timeout for WCF Adaptors.
• Mapping of inline schema for SQL Adaptor now allows for using $ characters as part of the updategram.
• The SQL Adaptor now supports calling from a BizTalk Server dynamic send port. The following properties can be set on the call to the dynamic port:
        Connection string (all the SQL connection properties)
        Document Target Namespace
        Response Document Root Element
• Ability to disable generation of Routing Failure Report.
• Fixes to some issues that used to cause high CPU usage by BizTalk Server hosts due to certain .NET updates.
• Ability to use multiple certificates for signing outbound messages.
• Message Pack 2009.
• Message property tracking with BAM for all messages in the interchange, irrespective of the usage of pipeline or mapping.
• Integrated tracing to help in debugging EDI specific issues. This improvement is aimed at reducing the time taken for diagnosing and isolating an EDI problem.

New Features:

• For WCF-Custom and WCF-CustomIsolated Adapters, the ability to look up custom bindings from locations other than machine.config.
• Support for using multiple certificates to sign outgoing AS2 messages.

Error message:

General exception soap Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.XlangSoapException: An error occurred while processing the message, refer to the details section for more information
Message ID: {8E2E044D-EA52-4006-9F1C-32A25DC2A2AC}
Instance ID: {5FCED1F3-8D45-430C-B45F-A77E7D0E46CE}
Error Description: SoapException: Server was unable to process request. —> There was an error generating the XML document. —> The type System.Xml.XmlDocument may not be used in this context.
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.XLANGs.BTXEngine.BTXPortBase.VerifyTransport(Envelope env, Int32 operationId, Context ctx)
   at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.Subscription.Receive(Segment s, Context ctx, Envelope& env, Boolean topOnly)
   at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.PortBase.GetMessageId(Subscription subscription, Segment currentSegment, Context cxt, Envelope& env, CachedObject location)
   at DTAOrderMessaging.ProcessOrder.segment2(StopConditions stopOn)
   at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.SegmentScheduler.RunASegment(Segment s, StopConditions stopCond, Exception& exp)

Proxy configuration:

Question raised on my site: does BizTalk hold history/information on changed configuration items with a timestamp and user?

Or must we dive in the SQL logs, or must we capture it our self? (didn’t do any investigation on this part)

You can find the video here.

Back to installing BizTalk Server 2009 on Windows 7. The setup runs smoothly, BUT if you want to use the BAM portal then it is possible that you receive the next screen:

In my case it had to do with my 64-bit system. The BAM portal runs in 32 bit mode. To make this work do the following:

Enable IIS 6 compatibility mode via Windows features (Control Panel –> Programs and Features).

Start a command prompt as an Administrator:

Execute the next command: cscript.exe c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs set W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32BitAppOnWin64 1

Continue the BizTalk Server 2009 Configuration tool. Now you can select the BAM Portal Web Site (default or another one).

Best wishes for 2010 and happy BizTalk-ing!!!

Wouter Krooy – BizTalk 2009 + ESBT 2.0 in an event driven architecture
Martin Rienstra – Making orchestrations robust
Dick Dijkstra – live SAP-demo
Patrick Wellink – Best practices in the BizTalk Software Factory from Logica

Cheers Gerben