The QuickStart Guide to Installing & Configuring BizTalk Server 2004 for Windows Server 2003

Updated 1/26/05 w/ SP1 information. The following guide provides you with the information you need to build a complete BizTalk Server Proof of Concept (POC) running on Windows Server 2003. You will go from FDISK to a “Hello World“ BizTalk Orchestration Sample In just about 5 hours! For complete (AKA "in-depth") details on installing and configuring BizTalk Server 2004 on a single computer or on multiple computers, see the BizTalk Server Installation Guide.

Note: The estimated time assumes you have all media ready to install.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  August 10, 2004
  This rocks. Plain and simple.
• Anonymous
  August 10, 2004
  This is exactly what I need! Nice job! It would be nice to have something like this for some of the other platforms like Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
• Anonymous
  August 18, 2004
  This is exactly what I needed. Yes, I was asked to install BizTalk 2004 and get it running without any experience. Most of the blogs I have read have nothing about installation. Thanks.
• Anonymous
  August 19, 2004
  I´m installing on a single computer (Windows server 2003) Will these instructions work for me?
• Anonymous
  August 20, 2004
  Yes, the guide is for a single server build using Windows Server 2003. This will get you up and running with everything on one machine. I'll be posting two more guides soon. One for Windows 2000 Server and one for Windows XP w/ SP2. Thanks!
• Anonymous
  August 31, 2004
  Hi, just noticed that Step 8 (Install SOAP Toolkit 2.0 SP2) has a bad link.
• Anonymous
  October 29, 2004
  The documentation monkeys behind Microsoft BizTalk Server have opened up blog shop. The Blogspot hosted communion professes not only to tell us about the wonders of BizTalk Server but Host Integration Server and Commerce Server. Content is sparse at last check like any new blog but they've made a good first dip in the water with a discursive entry about PKI and BizTalk. The credentials are impeccably bad-foot; these are the minions of the Mole that do this officially. They probably know the product like the front of a can of PBR....
• Anonymous
  January 25, 2005
  Dr.Watson lied !!
• Anonymous
  July 31, 2005
  this is really great and it helped me a lot.
  but while configuring biztalk server and WSS, will it open that configuration screen automatically or we have to locate it anywhere?
  if so where?
• Anonymous
  August 03, 2005
  Great notes - reality of adding the Critical Updates at stage two, especillay with SP1 on Win2003 is more like a couple of hours over standard DSL.
  
  I ahve also installed this using MS Virtual Server 2005 software to create a Virtual Windows 2003 installation which makes this a breeze running on my XP Pro desktop machine.
  
  Highly recommended if you have never used Virtual Server - its really easy to use though you need reasonable memory and processor capability (1Gb + Athlon 3200 or Pentium 3ghz would be sensible minimum).
• Anonymous
  August 15, 2005
  Word of caution:
  
  Don't change SQL Server collation or if you do make sure that collation those ones that are described in BizTalk Server Installation guide.
  
  I did install SQL Server collation so that in the last BizTalk installation step failed.
  
  Lost lot of time...
  
• Anonymous
  August 19, 2005
  There was lot of times when I wanted a good documentation for installign Biztalk and I feel the Installation...
• Anonymous
  March 14, 2006
  The relevancy of this excellent check-list still stays intact. After a machine renaming by the ops folks on my machine, my biztalk 2004 stopped working. A wasted day of troubleshooting and trying to fix the problems by partially re-installing software ensued. Then I ditched the whole idea, uninstalled everything down to SQL Server 2000, took your list and went down step-by-step and got everything working back in half a day!
  Very good list..wish I had found it sooner.
• Anonymous
  May 01, 2006
  Excellent just what I was looking for. The MSXML 3.0 link will need to be updated.
• Anonymous
  September 21, 2006
  PingBack from http://richardhallgren.com/blog/?p=24
• Anonymous
  May 04, 2008
  I consistently get an error during BT configuration. It is during the BizTalk Host Configuration section and the error is "Creation of Adapter FILE Configuration Store failed. Accessis denied." This is on Windows 2003. Any ideas? I have run ConfigFramework.exe /u, and have completely removed and reinstalled with no success :(