Trinity Consulting

BizTalk Quick Start

The BizTalk Server Quick Start is delivered in 240 hours of expert technical services to help in the early stage of a deployment project.

The key value of this service is the interactive design sessions during which our consultant gathers information on your environment and needs, educates your IT staff on the critical architecture decisions, and guides you to the best solutions. Our consultant then prepares and reviews an architecture document with you.

Major milestones include:

Requirements: The Quick Start engagement begins with a review of the business requirements and definition of the projects vision and scope. Key project criteria will be considered in the context of the organization's business objectives. Framing the vision and scope focuses the project creating more valuable results with less risk.

Design Sessions: Our consultant will lead a series of interactive design sessions covering the core decisions that must be made to successfully develop a first pass design. The design sessions will cover:

Logical design: The first step is to consider the ideal system design which will guide later sessions as they address issues with practical realization of the vision.
Active Directory: BizTalk Server's integration with and requirements for the Active Directory™ service in Windows™ 2003 Server�either to review an existing Active Directory design or make recommendations to the design team.
Physical Design: Implementing the logical design through consideration of server design, server placement, system lockdown, and administration.
Upgrade and Coexistence: Upgrade strategies will be discussed along with best practices for handling coexistence and migration issues with existing equipment and services.
Process Modeling: Clear definition of business process sequences, data flows and options for orchestration.
Secure Outbound Configuration: Options for conducting secure transactions with external clients.
Secure Publishing: Options for securely publishing Web and other resources both internally and to the Internet.
Caching: Options for accelerating access to popular Web content.

Assessment: Information will be gathered on the existing environment during the design sessions so that the plan addresses any issues including those related to legacy systems such as:

Wide area network design
Existing security solutions and products
Technology and other standards
Current and future administration models
Current and future business process models
Application integration requirements
User population breakdown by location and role

Interoperability: Coexistence with current systems is vital to a successful information technology deployment and migration. Our consultant will provide direction on interoperability with other network equipment, services, and applications as needed.

Deliverable: The Quick Start Technical Specification and Business Orchestration Plan will detail all the information gathered and decisions made during the project. It will include a summary of the next steps needed to successfully deploy BizTalk Server. This summary will highlight areas unique to the environment that will require further detailed follow up.

Outline of Topics Covered

Logical Design
Administration model	Deployment model
Administration model	OU design
Active Directory integration	Group policy
	Forest and domain design
Physical Design
Deployment model	Implementing the administration model
Server design	System lockdown
Network infrastructure	VPN
Upgrade and Coexistence
Upgrade strategy	Coexistence and migration
Process Modeling
Business process sequences	Dataflows
Orchestration options
Secure Outbound Configuration
Site and content rules
Packet filtering
Secure Publishing
Secure Web publishing	Secure server publishing
Caching
Caching method	Cache request routing