BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Installing BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 and BizTalk AppFabric Connect feature (Part 10)

To connect BizTalk Server 2010 to enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle Database, or Siebel, you need the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010. This part of our series also covers the AppFabric Connect feature, which allows you to use these powerful adapters directly in .NET applications.

In the sequence of a set of posts about installation and configuration of BizTalk 2010, I leave you here two excellent posts about:

Installing BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010, posted by Steef-Jan Wiggers:

• http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/2010/11/installing-biztalk-adapter-pack-2010-on.html

And Microsoft AppFabric Connect in BizTalk 2010, posted by Thiago Almeida:

• http://connectedthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/microsoft-appfabric-connect-in-biztalk-2010-licensing-and-installation-whats-the-deal/

With the Adapter Pack and SDK installed, your BizTalk environment is now capable of communicating with the most common enterprise Line-of-Business systems. You have now completed the core infrastructure setup!

Related links

• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 1)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Install Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Part 2)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Install Visual Studio 2010 (Part 3)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Install SQL Server 2008 R2 (Part 4)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Install SQL Server 2005 Notification Services on top of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Part 5)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure Windows SharePoint Services (Part 6)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Part 6.1)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Disable the Shared Memory Protocol (Part 7)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server (Part 8 )
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Installing and configuring local SMTP for Reporting Server (Part 9)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Configure BizTalk Server SQL Jobs (Part 11)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Enable TCP/IP, Named Pipes protocols and DTC on the Local Host Server (Part 12)
• BizTalk 2010 Installation and Configuration – Configure the Application Event Log (Part 13)

Author: Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community. View all posts by Sandro Pereira