BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 2)

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a Web application infrastructure for many BizTalk Server features. BizTalk Server requires IIS for the following features:

HTTP adapter
SOAP adapter
Windows SharePoint Services adapter
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption
BAM Portal

To install IIS 8, use the following steps:

Open “Server Manager”.
Under the “Manage” menu, select “Add Roles and Features” (or press “Add roles and features” under the Dashboard panel)

On the Before You Begin screen, click “Next”

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add-roles and features before you begin

On the Installation Type screen, select “Role-based or feature-based installation” and click “Next”

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features installation type

On the Server Selection screen, select the appropriate server, leave the default options and click “Next”
- Select a server from the server pool
- local is selected by default

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features server selection

On the Server Roles screen, select “Web Server (IIS)” option
- If prompted, click “Add Features”, and then click “Next”

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features server roles

On the Features screen, no additional features are needed for IIS, however, in addition to the default values, we will need or should select the following options:
- .Net Framework 3.5 Features
- SMTP Server (If prompted, click “Add Features”) – optional
- Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 – optional: Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is required for the SharePoint Services adapter or SharePoint Online when used with SharePoint Services Client-Side Object Model (CSOM).

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features features

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features features wif

Then click “Next”
On the Web Server Role (IIS) screen, click “Next”
On the Role Services screen under Web Server Role (IIS), we will customize our installation of IIS with the following options:
- Common HTTP Features
  - Default Document
  - Directory Browsing
  - HTTP Errors
  - Static Content
- Health and Diagnostics
  - Http Logging
  - Logging Tools
  - ODBC Logging
  - Request Monitor
  - Tracking
- Performance
  - Static Content Compression
  - Dynamic Content Compression
- Security
  - Request Filtering
  - Basic Authentication
  - Digest Authentication
  - Windows Authentication
- Application Development
  - Select all options
- Management Tools
  - IIS Management Console
  - IIS 6 Management Compatibility
    - IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
    - IIS 6 Management Console
    - IIS 6 Scripting Tools
    - IIS 6 WMI Compatibility

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features roles services

Then click “Next”
On the Confirmation screen, click “Install”

BizTalk Server 2013 IIS Add roles and features confirmation

When the IIS installation completes, the wizard reflects the installation status on the Results screen
Click Close to exit the wizard

Running the BAM Portal in a 64-bit Environment

BAM Portal runs only runs in a 32-bit mode. If you are using Internet Information Services (IIS) in a 64-bit environment, you must set IIS to 32-bit mode to run the BAM portal. To do this, follow these steps:

Open a command prompt and run the adsutil command. To do this, press the “Windows key” to switch to Metro UI and type “cmd” and click on “Command Prompt” option on Apps menu.
Type the following at the command prompt:
- cscript c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
Close the command prompt.

Or:

Press the “Windows key” to switch to Metro UI.
Type “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” or “IIS” and click on “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” option on Apps menu.
Expand the server and click on “Application Pools” to display available application pools in the center panel.
Right-click on ‘DefaultAppPool’ and select “Advanced Settings”.