BizTalk Server 2020 Introduction
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Introduction
In this article we will read about BizTalk Server 2020 Introduction. World’s leading integration tool with the full support of new features introducing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2020. On January 15th, 2020, Microsoft announced the release of BizTalk Server 2020. The whole community world was excited to see the new set of features that got shipped in this product release and here we are with the beginning of a new era!
What are the new features?
There are many new features released with BizTalk Server 2020, let’s have a look at some of the new features:
| Feature | Description |
| Support for newer platforms | – Visual Studio 2019 (Enterprise and Professional editions are supported) |
| – Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 | |
| – SQL Server 2019, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2016 SP2 | |
| – Office 2019, Office 2016 | |
| Management APIs | – Manage your environment remotely using the new REST APIs with full Swagger support. |
| Advanced Scheduling | – New and improved scheduling capabilities in Adapters. |
| Backup to Azure Blob Storage | – When deploying BizTalk Server to Azure VMs, you can backup BizTalk Server databases to Azure blob storage. |
| Transport Layer Security 1.2 | – Securely deploy BizTalk Server using industry-standard TLS 1.2 authentication and encryption. |
| API Management |
– Publish Orchestration endpoints using Azure API Management, enabling organizations to publish APIs to external, partner, and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services. |
For all the latest updates on the new features to be included. Refer to the Doc page: What’s New in BizTalk Server 2020
Deprecated & Removed features
Some features of the product are deprecated or removed from the product. Let’s have a look:
| Samples | Removed | Removed from BizTalk Server installation |
| POP3 and SMTP adapters | Deprecated | Office 365 adapters |
| Support for ACS authentication in adapters | Removed | SAS authentication |
| SOAP adapter | Deprecated | WCF-BasicHttp Adapter |
| Old SQL adapter | Removed | WCF-SQL Adapter |
| BAM Portal | Deprecated | None |
| WCF-NetTcpRelay adapter | Deprecated | None |
| JDE OneWorld adapter | Deprecated | None |
We can find the complete list of deprecated & removed features here.
Editions Overview
BizTalk Server 2020 offers four editions:
| Enterprise Edition | Customers with enterprise-level requirements for high volume, reliability, and availability |
| Standard Edition | Organizations with moderate volume and deployment scale requirements |
| Branch Edition | For hub and spoke deployment scenarios |
| Developer Edition | For testing and development use in conjunction with any of the above three editions |
We can download these products with MSDN account;
References
| Microsoft Doc Ref | Click here |
| BizTalk Techie | Click here |