Installing BizTalk drivers for Application Center 2000

It is recommended that you first install Application Center 2000 followed by Service Pack 1 and then install BizTalk Server 2002. However, if you installed BizTalk Server 2002 before installing Application Center 2000 and Service Pack 1, you will need to go to the AppCenter folder located in the BizTalk installation directory:

Program FilesMicrosoft BizTalk ServerAppCenter 

It will contain two files, AcBtsEnm.dll and rdrvbts.dll, and a folder named Images. After installing Application Center 2000, copy the two DLLs into the directory where you installed Application Center 2000 and register them:

Program FilesMicrosoft Application Center 

regsvr32 <Path>AcBtsEnm.dll

Next copy the files in the Images folder into the following location:

Program FilesMicrosoft Application CenterAdminImages

If you installed Application Center 2000 followed by BizTalk Server 2002, but have not yet installed Service Pack 1 for Application Center 2000, go to the Application Center 2000 SP1 folder on the root of your BizTalk Server 2002 CD. Copy ACSP1Setup.exe to your local hard drive and then double-click the file to install Service Pack 1. Make sure that you have the Application Center 2000 CD handy because you will be asked for it during the installation of the Service Pack.

After Application Center 2000 and Service Pack 1 are installed, you will need to create an Application Center cluster. Make sure that the SQL Server that the BizTalk server group is pointing to is the controller of the Application Center cluster, as shown in Figure 23.1, or that it is remote to both the BizTalk server group and the Application Center cluster. If the SQL Server is not the controller, but is a member of the cluster, you will receive an error when you attempt to deploy any BizTalk configurations.

All the members of your BizTalk server group need to have Application Center 2000 with Service Pack 1 installed, and all the members need to be members of the Application Center cluster.