BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure Microsoft UDDI Services (Part 13)

The next posts will focus on installing and configuring BizTalk Server 2013 R2 and additional components

Make sure that you have installed all the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft and all the prerequisites before you install BizTalk Server 2013 R2.

Install and Configure Microsoft UDDI Services

UDDI Services provides Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) capabilities for sharing information about Web services within an organization’s intranet, between business partners on an extranet, or on the Internet. UDDI Services can help improve the productivity of developers and information technology (IT) professionals with more reliable and manageable applications. With UDDI Services, you can prevent duplication of effort by promoting reuse of existing development work.

In a stand-alone installation, all default and optional components are installed on a single server. An instance of SQL Server must be installed before installing UDDI Services. When installing UDDI Services, the local instance of SQL Server is used to host the UDDI Services Database. UDDI Services Web Application and Notification Service are then configured to use the local UDDI Services Database.

To install Microsoft UDDI Services:

• Close all applications before running setup. Run the BizTalk Server 2013 R2 installer as Administrator.
• On the Start page, click Install Microsoft UDDI Services.

• On the License Agreement page, select Yes, I accept the terms in the license agreement to accept the license agreement and click Next.

• On the Component Installation page:
  • In Available Components: select and click on the available components you want to install.
  • In Install To: specify a location to install UDDI Services components.
  • And then click Next to continue.

• On the Summary page, review installation details and then click Install.

• On the Installation Completed page, select the Launch Microsoft UDDI Services Configuration option and then click Finish to start the UDDI Services configuration.

• On the Microsoft UDDI Services Configuration page, apply the following configurations and then click Configure to continue:
  • Select the “Basic configuration” option
  • In the Database server name field under Database properties, enter the name of the local computer that will host the UDDI database.
  • In the Service credential properties, type the User name and Password for the account that the UDDI services will run under.

• Note: You may receive a warning if you enter a user name with administrative credentials on this computer. Click Yes to continue.

• On the Summary page, review configuration information, and then click Next.
  • You may receive a warning on the UDDI Services Notification Service, don’t worry, we’ll deal with that later

• On the Completed page, review configuration information:
  • If the UDDI Services Notification Service fails, which is the case
    • Select the Launch Custom Configuration option.
  • And then click Finish.

• On the Microsoft BizTalk Server Configuration (UDDI) page, from the left pane, select the UDDI Services Notification Service option and configure the following settings:
  • Select the Enable UDDI Services Notification Service option.
  • Under Windows Service, set the service account under which the UDDI Notification Service runs.
  • Under SMTP, type the SMTP server for sending e-mail notifications.
  • Under E-mail address, type the address of the e-mail account used for sending e-mail notifications.
  • Under SMTP Authentication, specify the type of authentication used when authenticating with the SMTP server.
  • When finished, click Apply Configuration.

• On the Summary page, review configuration information, and then click Next.

• On the Completed page, review configuration information and then click Finish.

Verify Your Installation

To verify that Microsoft UDDI Services is installed correctly:

• Open Internet Explorer and type http://localhost/uddi, and then hit Enter
  • If UDDI Services is installed correctly, you will see the Welcome to Microsoft UDDI Services page.

Related links

• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Important considerations before set up the server (Part 1)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 2)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) (Part 3)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install and configure SMTP Server Feature (optional) (Part 4)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Microsoft Office Excel 2013 (Part 5)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Visual Studio 2013 (Part 6)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install SQL Server 2014 (Part 7)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Configure SQL Server Database Mail feature (Part 8)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure BizTalk Server 2013 R2 (Part 9)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Configure SQL Server Network Configuration protocols (Part 10)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Validate Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts (Part 11)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Installing BizTalk Adapter Pack (Part 12)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure the Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit (Part 14)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Configure BizTalk Server SQL Jobs (Part 15)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Optimize the BizTalk Server 2013 R2 environment (Part 16)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Optimize the BizTalk Server 2013 R2 environment (Part 17)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Optimize the BizTalk Server 2013 R2 environment (Part 18)
• BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install additional Developer tools (Part 19)

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