This guide provides guidance on the best practices and techniques for the following areas: Finding and Eliminating Bottlenecks Optimizing Performance Scaling a Production BizTalk Server Environment BizTalk Server Performance Testing Methodology

Check out these videos describing itineraries and dynamic messaging in BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 Itinerary Design Process and Tooling Dynamic Messaging

Here is a good document describing how to configure and maintain a BizTalk 2009 installation. Everything from configuring Windows Server and SQL Server to performing load and throughput testing is described

The ESB Toolkit 2.0 (former ESB Guidance) is finally available for download. You find it here. The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 provides architectural guidance, patterns and practices, and a collection of BizTalk Server and .NET Framework components to simplify the development of enterprise-scale solutions on the Microsoft platform. The toolkit also provides capabilities to help developers extend existing messaging and integration solutions. The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 consists of a collection of interoperating...

Here are some powerpoint presentations from sessions at TechEd 2009 and TechReady 7. TechEd 2009 - BizTalk Server Presentations TechReady 7 - BizTalk Customer Advisory Team Presentations

Here is a great document that describes how to implement high availability for BizTalk Server components and dependencies using Windows Server Clustering technology. How to improve Fault Tolerance in BizTalk Server by Using a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster or Windows Server 2003 server cluster

Here are some videos demonstrating how to use the WCF support in BizTalk. This Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) video demonstrates using the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard. This Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) video demonstrates using the BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard. This Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) video examines how to configure a BizTalk receive location using the WCF-Custom adapter...

The BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper-V Guide is finally here. It provides information for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

I found a good article about the strategy when setting up a DTAP (Development, Test, Acceptance and Production) environment. It’s posted by Steef-Jan Wiggers and you can find it here

I'm currently working in a BizTalk project where we are using WCF adapters with SAP bindings to communicate with SAP. We "randomly" finds that our receive locations loose the connection to SAP. In BizTalk everything looks fine, the receive location is up and running, but when we look in SAP the connection is down. A restart of the host gets the connection up and running again, but that's certainly not a preferred solution. After some investigation we found that an error occurs in one of the inbound...