Managing Pipelines

Overview

This section provides instructions on using the BizTalk Server Administration console to manage the pipelines in a BizTalk group. You can configure tracking for events and messages as well as configure pipeline properties for a specific send port or receive location.

Pipelines perform actions on incoming and outgoing messages, such as transforming them from a native format into XML, encrypting or unencrypting data, performing property promotion, and so on.

You cannot add a pipeline to an application individually; a pipeline is added to an application as follows:

Note

You can use Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Object Model to create and run scripts that automate administrative tasks. For information about using WMI, see the WMI Class Reference in the UI guidance and developers API namespace reference.

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