BizTalk Server 2009 Sandbox

As anybody doing BizTalk probably knows that BizTalk Server 2009 CTP is available. I for one wanted to try it out so I download a couple things to get a BizTalk Server 2009 instance up and running. I download a couple of trail software, mimic a situation where one does not have a MSDN subscription available but still is able to create an BizTalk Server 2009 environment:

To install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on VPC 2007,I found a good post how to do it. I succeeded by following explanation in the post. Done with any problems. I added one role IIS (and WAS). Next installed SQL Server 2008 together with prerequites in this case NET 3.5 SP1. I done a stand-alone installation of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with Basic Features: database engine, management console. Set-up is easy and went smoothly. After installation I noticed mscorsvw.exe (.NET Runtime Optimization Service) took a lot of CPU. It was probably doing some precompiling .NET assemblies. This service will disappear after it has done all precompiling; this post will explain it in detail. Next step I did was installing Team Suite 2008 an first got an error: D:\Setup\VSSetupWatson\DW20.exe (Downloaded different ISO, which was bigger than initial one). Tried again and same problem. I read couple of posts or discussions about this problem; seems ISO is pretty big. I rebooted system and tried to setup again and problem disappeared (guess I am lucky). If you experience any problems look here. Finally I was at point of installing BizTalk 2009. I selected a couple of things and started installation (see picture below).

Installation BTS 2009

 

BTS 2009 Success

I did not encounter any problems during installation of this CTP. Last part was configuration of BizTalk Server 2009. But before that I test VS 2008 to see if project templates were there. I seem to have overlooked in enthusiasm that SDK was not installed. Then I accidently found out I had not applied SP1 over Visual Studio, so project templates for BizTalk were not available. So I had to download that one to and applied it. Then I could do configuration. I choose to do basic variant with administrator account.

Basic Config BTS 2009

I then started BizTalk Administration Console to check if things are up and running. Also checked if templates were available now (notice icon for BizTalk project is not correct, is C# icon).

BTS 2009 VS 2008

 

Creating such an environment can be tedious and time consuming, but in the end if you want to play with the bits you need an environment. It still beats the old days when you had to get a server (physical hardware) and then install everything (running around finding MSDN CD's). However now you running (browsing) around the internet, still you are in control and not depending on hardware (or budget to get one made available). Have fun with CTP, I will.


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Anonymous said…
Have you been able to find a way to display a BizTalk icon instead of the C# one ??..
3:02 PM
Unknown said…
Hi...I have been reading around but cannot find any where that speaks of the SQL Server min requirement? Is it 2005 or will 2000 work? I completely understand the benefits of moving to 2008, but my client already has a large enterprise investment in 2000.
8:14 PM
Robbish said…
@Dave,
The Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2009 (beta) document says that the required database has to be SQL Server 2005 SP2 or 2008...
2:25 AM
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