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Software Requirements for Biztalk
The software requirements for BizTalk Server include:
Operating System: Windows Server 2016 Standard or later, or Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard or later.
Database Server: Microsoft SQL Server 2017, 2016, or 2014 Standard or Enterprise Edition, with the latest service pack and cumulative update.
.NET Framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later.
Visual Studio: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later, for developing BizTalk Server solutions.
Internet Information Services (IIS): IIS 8.5 or later, for deploying BizTalk Server Web Services.
Office: Microsoft Office 2013 or later, for generating and processing Excel and Word documents.
Host Integration Server: If you plan to use BizTalk Server for Host Integration, you will need Microsoft Host Integration Server 2016 or later.
Virtualization: If you plan to install BizTalk Server in a virtual environment, you can use Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere.
Note that these are the minimum software requirements for BizTalk Server. Depending on the specific implementation and integration scenarios, additional software may be required. It is important to ensure that all software components are up to date and compatible with each other to ensure the stability and performance of BizTalk Server.
The following table lists the prerequisite software you must install on the computer that will run BizTalk Server as per Microsoft Corporation.
| Product | Description |
| Windows XP Professional Edition with Service Pack 2 | Provides operating system security and Web site administration through Internet Information Services (IIS). |
| Internet Information Services 5.1 | IIS is a powerful Web server that provides a highly reliable, manageable, and scalable Web application infrastructure. BizTalk Server requires IIS for certain features. |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4 | Microsoft SQL Server is an enterprise-class relational database server capable of efficiently processing high volumes of critical data. Note – Using SQL Server Express Edition in a production environment is not recommended. |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services with Service Pack 4 | SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services is the next generation of the OLAP Services component that was included in SQL Server 7.0. |
| SQLXML 3.0 with Service Pack 3 | SQLXML enables XML support for your SQL Server Database. It allows developers to bridge the gap between XML and relational data. You can create an XML View of your existing relational data and work with it as if it were an XML file. |
| SQL Server Notification Services 2.0 with Service Pack 1 | Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Notification Services provides organizations with a high-performance platform to build scalable notification applications that generate messages customized to meet their users’ specific information requirements. This is required if you plan to configure BAM alerts. |
| Microsoft Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2 | Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) uses a Microsoft Excel workbook to provide business users with a way to see a real-time holistic view of business processes. |
| Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 | The .NET Framework version 3.0 improves scalability and performance with improved caching, application deployment and updating with ClickOnce, support for the broadest array of browsers and devices with ASP.NET 2.0 controls and services. This is required for the BizTalk Server 2006 runtime. |
| Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 | Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 provides a powerful, enterprise team development environment for rapidly building mission-critical applications that target any device and integrate with any platform. This is required for the BizTalk Server Developer Tools and SDK component. Note The Developer Tools and SDK component cannot be installed on Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions. |
| Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 Service Pack 1 (SP1) | Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 contains core Data Access components such as the Microsoft SQL Server OLE DB provider and ODBC driver. |
| Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 3.0 Service Pack 7 (SP7) | XML Core Services (formerly known as MSXML, for Microsoft Extensible Markup Language or XML) is an application for processing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) in an XML file. XML Core Services is a required piece of software for your BizTalk Server installation. |
| Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 6.0 | MSXML 6.0 has improved reliability, security, conformance with the XML 1.0 and XML Schema 1.0 W3C Recommendations, and compatibility with System.Xml 2.0. |
| Office Web Components 11 (OWC11) Version 4 | Microsoft Office Web Components are a collection of Component Object Model (COM) controls for publishing spreadsheets, charts, and databases to the Web, and for viewing the published components on the Web. OWC11 Version 4 is optional for a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation. It is required only if you want to use Health and Activity Tracking (HAT). |
| ADOMD.NET 8.0 | ADOMD.NET 8.0 is a .NET object model, used for building client applications that access an XML for Analysis 1.1-compliant data provider, such as that provided by the XML for Analysis 1.1 SDK. ADOMD.NET is the .NET successor to the ADOMD (COM) object model. |
| ADOMD.NET 9.0 | ADOMD.NET 9.0 is the successor to ADOMD.NET 8.0. |
Installation and Configuration Tasks
The following process details installing and configuring an installation of BizTalk Server on Windows XP with Service Pack 2. In this task, it’s required that following components are installed on computer before installing BizTalk
- Internet Information Services 5.1
- Office Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2
- Visual Studio 2005
- SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 4 or SQL Server 2005
- SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services with Service Pack 4
- SQL Server Notification Services 2.0 with Service Pack 1
