Operational Readiness Checklists
The Operational Readiness checklists contain recommendations that you should consider and tasks that you should perform before deploying a BizTalk solution into production. These checklists include information for configuring prerequisite software, increasing availability, monitoring the BizTalk Server environment, and procedures for testing.
Because BizTalk Server maintains dependencies on so many other Microsoft technologies, you should complete the tasks for each dependent technology to help ensure that your production BizTalk Server environment runs smoothly.
Typical Prerequisite Software
Prerequisite software for the BizTalk Server application platform typically includes the following products:
The Windows operating system
SQL Server
BizTalk Server
Visual Studio (for development purposes, not at run time)
Additional Components
The BizTalk Server application platform may also require several of the following software components:
Internet Information Services (IIS)
SharePoint
Microsoft Office Excel
Note
BizTalk Server supports only the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office.
SQL Server
SQLXML
.NET Framework
Non-Microsoft components to enable functionality for certain BizTalk Server adapters.
For more information about the dependency software that is required for specific features of the BizTalk application platform for various Windows operating system versions, see What's New, Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade.