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  • Learning BizTalk

    Companies that offer BizTalk training courses
    • Pluralsight
    • Quicklearn
  • Community Dicussions and Resources

    Public forums where BizTalkers hang out and related resources
    • BizTalkBlogs.com
      Awesome Blog aggregator, incorporates leading blogs for BizTalk, WCF, WF, SOA, etc. If you're interested in ANY of those, you should check this out and make it a regular stopping point or feed.
    • BizTalk ESB Toolkit Community
    • All MSDN BizTalk Forums
    • BizTalk Hotrod
      PDF format "magazine", a great collection of in-depth technical articles
  • Operational Readiness

    Planning, deploying, monitoring, etc a healthy BizTalk Environment
    • BizTalk Operations Guide (2009)
      Excellent resource that all BizTalk developers and admins should read at least once, preferably every few months.
    • BizTalk Database Optimization
      Comprehensive work covering many aspects of tuning a BizTalk environment (not just databases) for optimum performance.
    • Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Performance Optimization Guide
      Provides in depth information for optimizing the performance of BizTalk Server 2009 solutions
    • BizTalk Installation Guides
      Guides to BizTalk installation in different environments
  • Tools

    Useful Utilities 
    • Best Practices Anayzer V1.2
      Observes and interogates your environment, produces reports and recommendations
    • LoadGen 2007
      Microsoft BizTalk LoadGen 2007 is a tool that is used to run performance and stress tests.
    • BizTalk Documentor
      Examines a BizTalk groupo and produces CHM documentation
    • Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
      The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided).
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