Updated: July 14, 2020 (September 10, 2007)

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Ready

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

BizTalk Server 2006 R2, released in Sept. 2007, delivers important improvements to Microsoft’s application integration and business process management product. Specifically, R2 improves the product’s Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) support and enables tracking of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags. R2 also connects BizTalk Server to new workflow and messaging APIs that will play an important role in future products, including BizTalk Server itself. This release could bring in new BizTalk customers and will attract existing customers interested in EDI and RFID, but many existing BizTalk Server applications could remain on current versions.

With BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft also has discontinued the Host Integration Server product; all features of that product are now available in all editions of BizTalk Server 2006 R2. (See the sidebar “BizTalk Absorbs Host Integration“.)

No Radical Technical Changes

BizTalk 2006 R2 is the fifth version of a server product that supports three key functions:

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