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Installation of SSO on SQL Cluster

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In this post I will tell a story of my experience with installation of SSO on SQL Cluster. Each BizTalk Server has an Enterprise Single Sign-On service (EntSSO.exe). Enterprise Single Sign-On is also referred as SSO or EntSSO. SSO serves two purposes. One is for data encryption, that is, port URI data. And the other is, as what the name indicates, Single Sign-On. Single Sign-On is about credential mapping. BizTalk Server SSO currently supports only Windows-initiated Single Sign-On. That means you can only map Windows users accounts to external application (affiliate application) user accounts. On the inbound side the sender is authenticated with Windows; on the outbound side, BizTalk Server automatically authenticates with the affiliate applications using the preconfigured credential mapping. Single Sign-On is a useful feature in business-to-business (B2B) scenarios. Note: However the encryption function is mandatory for a BizTalk system. Single Sign-On for credential mapping can be

ESB Toolkit 2.0

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As you may have noticed as dedicated BizTalk professional ESB toolkit 2.0 is available . Is targeted towards BizTalk 2009 Server product and supports Windows 2003/2008 OS. There is a x86 and x64 msi, documents and compiled help file that can be download. I tried installing Toolkit on my BizTalk Server 2009 Personal Sandbox (2008 Windows Server OS, x86).     Above screenshots of installation process. Getting started screen. I am getting started now. Some interesting posts by other BizTalk pro’s: ESB Out and About – Richard Seroter; ESB Toolkit Ships – Brian Loesgen; BizTalk Server: ESB Toolkit Released – Charles Young; Availability of ESB Toolkit - BizTalk Server Team blog. Technorati: BizTalk Server 2009