More BizTalk FAQ Answered ...

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Once again, a great set of BizTalk FAQ from the BPID Customer Response team.
This month's Q & A has some useful bits including:

  • Brief mention of "the BPA, or Best Practice Analyzer, is a tool to be made available for the BizTalk Server 2006 release which
    analyzes your BizTalk environment and makes suggestions for improving it."
  • Also, a very, very useful answer about using binding files in the MSI packages that says "By default, when files of type
    "BizTalk:Binding" are added as Resources, they are assigned an "All" property which means that they will be applied in any environment to
    which the application is imported. However, they can also be given a particular "TargetEnvironment" property, such as "Staging" or
    "Production". When an application is imported, the user will be prompted to specify the TargetEnvironment, and the associated binding
    will be applied. This allows you to create one monolithic MSI package which will contain bindings for every environment that it will
    be staged to."

Good stuff. The binding file topic is quite useful when you want to be able to send a particular MSI to multiple locations and have it
adapt to each configuration.