Hi Folks, I am somewhat sad with the requirements to use the ESB BizTalk Toolkit 2.0, you need to have BizTalk Enterprise Edition, which I find rather out of reach, since we use Standard.

Due to this, our company decided not to use the toolkit and develop our own Custom ESB management layer. In summary I like the ToolKit, but I could not get our managers to agree going enterprise with BizTalk...Would have been fun to implement. I will be experimenting with this toolkit and Windows Azure in the near future!

Below are the prerequisites:

To achieve full functionality of Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit solutions, you must install the following prerequisite applications and services. Follow this sequence to install the prerequisites and to configure your system.

Required

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 (except Web Editions) operating system
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 with IIS 6.0 extensions or IIS 6.0 (used for Web services and the ESB Management Portal)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Enterprise Edition, including Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (required on development computers)
• Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Optional

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.1 (required by the Itinerary Designer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008)
• Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (required by the ESB Management Portal)
• Microsoft UDDI Services 3 (required by UDDI resolver and dependent samples)
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Tools (required by Itinerary and Exception BAM tracking)
• BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 (required for Message Enrichment Sample)

What Is Installed?

Please review the following sections to install the BizTalk ESB Toolkit:

• Installing the BizTalk ESB Toolkit Core
• Installing the Exception Management Framework
• Installing the JMS/WMQ Components
• Installing the ESB Management Portal

The BizTalk ESB Toolkit installs the following components on the computer:

• ESB Configuration Tool
• Itinerary Designer
• Microsoft BizTalk Server.msi files for ESB Core engine, exception handling, and Java Message Service (JMS)
• ESB Toolkit samples
• Utilities:
• • Microsoft.Practices.ESB.PersistConfigurationTool
  • Microsoft.Practices.ESB.RulesDeployer

You can get more information on it here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/dd876606.aspx

Cheers!