Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a Web application infrastructure for many BizTalk Server features. BizTalk Server requires IIS for the following features:
- HTTP adapter
- SOAP adapter
- Windows SharePoint Services adapter
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption
- BAM Portal
To install IIS 8, use the following steps:
- Open “Server Manager”.
- Under “Manage” menu, select “Add Roles and Features” (or press “Add roles and features” under the Dashboard panel)
- On the Before You Begin screen, click “Next”
- On the Installation Type screen, select “Role-based or feature-based installation” and click “Next”
- On the Server Selection screen, select the appropriate server, leave the default options and click “Next”
- Select a server from the server pool
- local is selected by default
- On the Server Roles screen, select “Web Server (IIS)” option
- If prompted, click “Add Features”, and then click “Next”
- On the Features screen, no additional features are needed for IIS, however, in addition to the default values, we will need or should select the following options:
- .Net Framework 3.5 Features
- SMTP Server (If prompted, click “Add Features”) – optional
- Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 – optional: Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is required for the SharePoint Services adapter or SharePoint Online when used with SharePoint Services Client Side Object Model (CSOM).
- Then click “Next”
- On the Web Server Role (IIS) screen, click “Next”
- On the Role Services screen under Web Server Role (IIS), we will customize our installation of IIS with the following options:
- Common HTTP Features
- Default Document
- Directory Browsing
- HTTP Errors
- Static Content
- Health and Diagnostics
- Http Logging
- Logging Tools
- ODBC Logging
- Request Monitor
- Tracking
- Performance
- Static Content Compression
- Dynamic Content Compression
- Security
- Request Filtering
- Basic Authentication
- Digest Authentication
- Windows Authentication
- Application Development
- Select all options
- Management Tools
- IIS Management Console
- IIS 6 Management Compatibility
- IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
- IIS 6 Management Console
- IIS 6 Scripting Tools
- IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
- Common HTTP Features
- Then click “Next”
- On the Confirmation screen, click “Install”
- When the IIS installation completes, the wizard reflects the installation status on the Results screen
- Click Close to exit the wizard.
Running the BAM Portal in a 64-bit Environment
BAM Portal runs only runs on a 32-bit mode. If you are using Internet Information Services (IIS) in a 64-bit environment, you must set IIS to 32-bit mode to run the BAM portal. To do this, follow these steps:
- Open a command prompt and run the adsutil command. To do this, Press the “Windows key” to switch to Metro UI and type “cmd” and click in “Command Prompt” option on Apps menu.
- Type the following at the command prompt:
- cscript c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
- Close the command prompt.
Or:
· Press the “Windows key” to switch to Metro UI.
- Type “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” or “IIS” and click in “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” option on Apps menu.
- Expand the server and click on “Application Pools” to display available application pools in center panel.
- Right-click on ‘DefaultAppPool’ and select “Advanced Settings”.
- Change the value of ‘Enable 32-bit Applications’ from False to True. Click OK.
Related links
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Important considerations before set up the server (Part 1)
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Windows Identity Foundation (Part 3)
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration (Part 4) – Coming soon
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration (Part 5)
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration (Part 6)
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration (Part 7)
- BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration (Part 8)
