ESB Toolkit Tip #13: Use the ESB Toolkit to deploy changes in BizTalk artifacts with (almost) NO Downtime

It can be complicated to deploy changed .XSD Schemas, Maps and Orchestrations because BizTalk artifacts depend on each other. Changes in one BizTalk application may affect other BizTalk applications therefore you usually deploy at a certain time or date all your changes when there is no “traffic”. This is because you first have to remove the Schemas, Maps and Orchestrations before you can deploy the changes. Also other processes in BizTalk that make use of these artifacts have to be stopped and can...(read more)
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