Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 CTP 1 is now available

The release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 is the buzz since last year after Microsoft has shown off its integration roadmap for server integration and cloud products. On 30th March 2016, Microsoft has finally released its BizTalk Server 2016 CTP. The BizTalk Server is used widely by the organization who wanted to do business to business integration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and building loosely coupled interfaces.

The new improved features offered with this latest release of BizTalk Server 2016 CTP 1 are:

• A High Availability support for both Azure IaaS workloads and on-premises by the SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups 
• Support for SHA-2 hash function 
• Offers platform alignment support with the latest versions of Office 2016, Windows Server 2016, Visual Studio 2015 and SQL Server 2016 
• BizTalk Server can now run on Azure IaaS Virtual Machines with the production support 
• The scenarios of Ordered Delivery messaging is improved 
• Facilitated Accelerator and Adapter updated for WCF relay bindings, SAP and SFTP and also Accelerators for HL7 

The previous version of Microsoft BizTalk Server featuring the Windows Clustering and Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) which created difficulty in achieving High Availability in the cloud. The newer version of BizTalk Server features AlwaysOn Availability Groups that allow the customers to move their production interfaces to the cloud.

Microsoft has also updated its BizTalk Administration Console. It’s one of the changes is to configure the core BizTalk Hosts/Host Instances within the environment. Also, administrators can now do performance settings across multiple hosts consistently. Contact Biztalk Development Company for consulting, development and maintenance of Microsoft BizTalk applications.