Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise Beta

Microsoft® BizTalk™ Server 2000 Enterprise Edition enables the development and management of business processes within and between organizations. Companies can easily build distributed business processes that integrate applications and partners, as well as quickly establish reliable, secure trading relationships with customers and key partners over the Internet. By supporting important Web technologies such as XML and SOAP, BizTalk Server 2000 allows an organization to leverage open standards and specifications in order to integrate disparate applications independent of operating system, programming model or programming language.

The BizTalk Server 2000 Beta features the following enhancements from the Technology Preview:

• NEW! BizTalk Orchestration visual business process modeling environment, based on Microsoft Visio 2000.
• NEW! BizTalk Orchestration business process execution engine, based on XLANG.
• Easier to use management and configuration tools, including many new UI Wizards.
• Support for BizTalk Framework v2.0 Draft Specification for reliable messaging.
• Additional capabilities in BizTalk Mapper to enable more complex data transformations

• An Intel Pentium 300 Processor
• 128 MB of RAM
• A 6GB hard disk
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server or Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft® SQL Server™ 7.0 Standard (Service Pack 2 or later) or Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Standard Edition Beta 2
• Microsoft Visio® 2000 Standard Edition SR1a is required to run BizTalk Server Application Designer
• Microsoft® Office 2000 Web Components are required for Document Tracking UI.

If you do not meet the requirements above, order the BizTalk Server 2000 Beta Kit. This Kit contains the software that you need to evaluate BizTalk Server.

ORDER the Microsoft®BizTalk Server™ 2000 Beta Kit:

• US and Canada
• International

The kit includes:

• Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise Edition Beta on CD
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition Beta 2 on CD
• Microsoft Visio 2000 Standard SR1a 120-Day Evaluation Edition on CD

Microsoft® Commerce Server™ 2000 Hotfix
If you plan to run the beta release of Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 and the beta release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise Edition on the same computer, you must install the Commerce Server hotfix. This patch and installation instructions is available on the Microsoft web site at: http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/prodinfo/beta.asp.

Download the Microsoft® BizTalk™ Server 2000 Enterprise Beta.

BizTalk Server 2000 Readme
This readme contains important, late-breaking information about this release of BizTalk Server 2000.

Documentation Feedback
The BizTalk Server documentation team would love to hear your feedback on the BTS 2000 documentation. Send your comments to us. You can also reach this alias by clicking the link at the bottom of every help topic. Please note that this alias is reserved for documentation issues and is not appropriate for technical support questions.

Japanese Version
If you would like information regarding the Japanese version of Microsoft® BizTalk Server™ 2000 Enterprise Edition, please visit our Japanese site at http://www.microsoft.com/japan/biztalkserver/beta.