- Microsoft Management Console (MMC) integration for enterprise management
- Single view of operations and monitoring
- Application-level management
- Engine and infrastructure changes
For Business Users:
- Real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) alerting and notification
- BAM portal and resuable web components
- SharePoint Adapter for more native integration with Windows SharePoint Services
On Windows Server Systems:
- Support for Window 64-bits (x86)
- SQL Server 2005
- Visual Studio 2005 / .Net Framework 2.0
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
For Setup, Migration, and Deployment:
- Simplified setup
- Built-in tools for enterprise deployments
- Seamless migration from BizTalk Server 2004
BTS Core Engine:
- Improved support for large message transformations
- Processing failed messages
- Recoverable interchange processing
- Per-instance pipeline configuration
- In-order delivery on any send port
- Flat-file schema generation wizard
- Calling pipelines from orchestration
- Engine throttling
- Granular performance counters
- Resumable suspension scenarios
- Event-based configuration changes
Adapters:
- MSMQ and MQSeries in the box
- Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Adapter
- POP3 Adapter
- SMTP email composing
Development Tools:
- Development redeployment
- Orchestration zoom support
- Preserving of collapsed shapes in Orchestration Designer
