BIZTALK INSTALLATION GUIDE

Biztalk installation overview

In order to make Biztalk work properly, follow installations should be done in below order:

- SQL Server 2012 Express Edition: it is required to store all configuration information of Biztalk.
- Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition: it is required to develop custom applications running in
Biztalk server.
- Biztalk Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition: Biztalk Server software itself, and it will also create
templates for developing Biztalk applications in Visual Studio 2013.

To do these installations, user must log in with administrator account or account with administration
privileges.

Once the installation is complete, after everytime the server is restarted please ensure SQL Server service
and Biztalk service are still running.
 1. Installation of SQL Server 2012 Express Edition

SQL Server 2012 Express can be downloaded freely from Microsoft web site. There are some options to
install and here demonstrates to install SQL Server 2012 Express with Advanced services like Reporting
Services, Full-Text search, SQL Management Studio,… (file name is SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe).

- Double click the downloaded file to start the installation process:

- The SQL Server Installation Center appears, click the option “New SQL Server stand-alone
installation or add features to an existing installation” to do a new installation.
- Click “I accept the licence terms” and click Next button to continue.
- Leave as it is and click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default, click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default, and click Next button to continue.
- Click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default, click Next button to continue.
- Here we will create a “sa” account for it by typing a password and confirming it, after that click
Next button to continue.
- Leave it as default, and click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default, and click Next button to continue.
- Please wait while the installation process is going until it finishes.
- Click OK button and then Close button to complete, and after that a reboot is required to make
SQL Server 2012 work properly.
2. Installation of Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition

Visual Studio 2013 is required to develop Bizltalk applications and it can be downloaded freely as ISO
file from Microsoft web site.

- Mount the downloaded ISO file to a drive, go to that drive and double click on file
vs_community.exe to start the installation process.
- If a warning message comes up then just ignore it by clicking Continue button to continue.
- Click “I agree to the License Terms and Privacy Policy” and click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default, and click Install button to start installation process.
- Please wait while the installation process is going until it finishes.
- When it finishes, a reboot is required and you can do it by clicking the Restart Now button.
3. Installation of Biztalk Server 2012 R2

- Mount the ISO file to a drive, go to that drive and double click on file Setup.exe to start the
installation process.

- Click on “Install Microsoft Biztalk Server R2” to continue.

- In the next screen, enter user name and organization information and click Next button to
continue.
- Click “Yes, I accept the terms of the license agreement” and then click Next button to continue.
- Just click “No, I don’t want to participate in the program” and then click Next button to continue.
- Just leave it as default and click Next button to continue.
- Click Install button to start the installation process.
- Please wait while the installation process is going until it finishes.
- Choose “I don’t want to use Microsoft Update” and then click Next button to continue.
- Make sure the option “Launch Biztalk Server Configuration” is ticked. Click Finish button to end
the installation process and start the configuration process.
- Choose “Basic configuration” and enter the user name and password of current logged in user
(administrator account or account with administration privileges). After that, click Configure
button to continue.
- Click Next button to continue.
- Please wait while the configuration process is going until it finishes.
- Untick the “Launch Custom Configuration” and click Finish button to complete the configuration
process. After that, a reboot is required to make Biztalk Server work properly.
- Open Biztalk Server Administration screen by going Start menu.
- Expand Biztalk Server Administration > Biztalk Group > Applications and then you can see 2
applications “Biztalk Application 1” and “Biztalk EDI Application”. Right click on “Biztalk
Application 1” and select Properties.
- In Properties screen, choose References, click Add.. button on the right panel and tick on “Biztalk
EDI Application” and click Ok button 2 times to make “Biztalk Application 1” reference to “Biztalk
EDI Application”.