ESB Guidance Updates

The Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk 2006 R2 has been released. Interestingly it has moved from CodePlex!.

The first thing to do is read the manual, it is included in the installer but you will find it useful to read the manual first.

The ESB Guidance has some prerequisites that need downloading and I have gathered them all here to make life easier.

  1. Enterprise Library 3.1

2)  Debug View ( for tracing )

  1. Hotfix for .NET 2.0

  2. version 5.5 of the Dundas Chart controls for ASP.NET

>There seems to be a note to install hotfix for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hotfix KB943871

>which does not seem to exist , I am trying to confirm this and I will update this post as soon as I have a resolution.

UPDATE: You can request the hotfix from here https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix

I will be producing a walk through of installing a test VPC over the next few days.

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