White Paper: Installing BizTalk Server 2013 in a Standalone Machine

A couple of months ago, I published two white papers through BizTalk360, an initiative that came from an invitation from Saravana Kumar that I promptly accepted. However, I had never mentioned my White Papers on my blog… what a shame!

Installing BizTalk Server 2013 in a Standalone Machine (complete user guide)

This white paper explains in detail how to install and configure Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 on a single computer running Windows Server 2012. This guide will help you plan the installation and configuration of BizTalk Server 2013, applications, and components on which it depends, focused on creating a development environment (you can also follow this tutorial to help you create production environments). However, if this is the case, you need to skip some steps.

We will assume that the machine already has the operating system: Windows Server 2012 and the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft.

This is a complete step-by-step user guide with 128 pages that will perform a full installation of Microsoft BizTalk Server, with the exception of the deprecated SharePoint Adapter (SharePoint Services Service Side Object Model (SSOM)). The following components will be installed:

• Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO).
• BizTalk Group.
• BizTalk Runtime.
• Business Rule Engine.
• BAM Tools and Alerts.
• BAM Portal.
• BizTalk EDI/AS2 Runtime
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications (BizTalk Adapter Pack)
• Microsoft UDDI Services
• Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit

The white paper is available for download in BizTalk360 website:

This white paper is basically an improved version of my BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration post series published on my blog. Why improved? I have the pleasure of having extraordinary BizTalk experts reviewing and giving their feedback. So thank you, Nino Crudele (Microsoft Integration MVP), Steej-Jan Wiggers (Microsoft Integration MVP), Tord Glad Nordahl (Microsoft Integration MVP), and Ricardo Torre (Technical Pre-Sales & Product Strategist at BizTalk360 and former PFE at Microsoft) for spending your time reviewing this white paper.

I hope you enjoy reading this paper, and any comments or suggestions are welcome.

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