BizTalk Server 2004 Performance Characteristics

Today another interesting article about BizTalk is published, it seems that today is BizTalk-day! During my BizTalk courses a lot of people ask questions about the performance of a BizTalk server. I always try to let them think about it themselves because performance is dependent on a lot of things (both internal and external), there is no default answer. So if you want to have some facts and figures and some optimization guidelines, go and read the article. Also recommended!

BizTalk Server 2004 Performance Characteristics

This document provides information about the performance of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004. The BizTalk Server product team derived the performance characterization from thousands of test cases that isolated and measured the performance of individual configurations and components of BizTalk Server 2004. This document presents the results of this testing and explains some of the significant findings. It does not provide any specific instructions about optimizing a particular BizTalk Server 2004 deployment.