Managing Pipelines

Overview

This section provides instructions on using the BizTalk Server Administration console to manage the pipelines in a BizTalk group. You can configure tracking for events and messages as well as configure pipeline properties for a specific send port or receive location.

Pipelines perform actions on incoming and outgoing messages, such as transforming them from a native format into XML, encrypting or unencrypting data, performing property promotion, and so on.

You cannot add a pipeline to an application individually; a pipeline is added to an application as follows:

• When you add a BizTalk assembly containing a pipeline to the application, as described in How to Add a BizTalk Assembly to an Application.

• When you import an .msi file into an application that includes a BizTalk assembly containing a pipeline, as described in How to Import a BizTalk Application.

• When a developer deploys into an application an assembly containing a pipeline from Visual Studio, as described in Deploying BizTalk Assemblies from Visual Studio into a BizTalk Application.

  For background information about pipelines, see Pipelines. For information about developing pipelines, see Creating Pipelines Using Pipeline Designer.

Next steps

• Configure Tracking for a Pipeline

• Configure Per-Instance Pipeline Properties for a Send Port

• Configure Per-instance Pipeline Properties for a Receive Location