I passed the exam 74-135 yesterday. It was really tough, might be one of the most difficult exams provided by Microsoft. The reason I took this exam was because my company wanted to join BizTalk 2006 Jump Start program, and one of the requirements to participate the program was at least having a consultant passed 74-135. I spent almost a month to prepare for the exam, and finally passed it with all sectional results marked as “Strong”. If you are also going to take the exam, here are ......
BizTalk Server 2004 is not cluster aware, therefore it is not recommended to install BizTalk 2004 on a MSCS based server cluster. However, to achieve high availability of you BizTalk solution, you can still take the following actions. (I assume you are installing BizTalk 2004, SQL Server 2000 on Windows Server 2003) 1. Setup an Active\Passive server cluster based on Microsoft Cluster Services Install SQL Server 2000 with service pack 3a on the cluster. This step is very easy because SQL Server 2000 ......