BizTalk Server 2016 What's New

BizTalk Server 2016 is scheduled for General Availability (GA) in the fall. Some things you can expect include:

Feature	Description
Support for newer platforms	BizTalk Server 2016 adds support for the following Microsoft platforms: Visual Studio 2015 Windows Server 2016 SQL Server 2016 Office 2016
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Support includes: Using on-premises and in Microsoft Azure IaaS virtual machines Using for production workloads Provides a high available (HA) solution in Microsoft Azure
BizTalk Server Azure VMs in production	BizTalk Server Azure virtual machines are now fully supported for production environments. Using SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn, a highly available solution is now possible.
Ordered delivery on dynamic ports	Includes the adapters that support ordered delivery on static send ports You can enable the ordered delivery option in the BizTalk Administration console
SHA-2 hash functions	SHA-2 is fully supported, including: BizTalk can consume SHA2-signed certificates across all of its components Supports the following Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) exchange system for signature keys in AS2, RosettaNet, and the MIME/SMIME encoder: AES128 AES192 AES256 Supports the following SHA2-based MIC calculations for AS2: SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 Supports the following SHA2-based digest methods in RosettaNet: SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 SHA1 certificates will continue to work
Compile your maps	Choose to compile your maps using XslTransform or XslCompiledTransform
Schema window	In the BizTalk mapper, the Schema dialog window is now resizable
Security	Improvements include: Removed strict dependency on SYST command in the FTP Adapter Office web components (OWC) is now an optional installation component
Adapters and Accelerators	Improvements and changes include: SAP adapter now uses SAP Connector for .NET (NCo), while still supporting the classic RFC SDK. WCF-SAP adapter support for the SAP .NET Connector provides more details. SFTP adapter supports more SFTP servers, and has more encryption ciphers and logging. It also uses WinSCP to connect to SFTP servers. Service Bus adapter support Shared Access Signature (SAS) authentication for the Service Bus relay WCF bindings on the BasicHttpRelay, NetTcpRelay, BasicHTtp, and WebHttp adapters BizTalk Accelerator for HL7: The MLLP adapter on a receive location now supports the option to initiate an outbound connection to a remote LOB listener.
Import/export parties	Changes include: The import and export option is separated from the Application. For example, you can export a party without exporting the application. You can import a party without importing the application. Can choose which parties, business profiles, and agreements you want to import or export Can continue to import/export the business-to-business artifacts as you do in BizTalk Server 2013 R2, BizTalk Server 2013, and BizTalk Server 2010.
BizTalk Administration	Some changes include: Configure the settings for multiple hosts/host instances simultaneously When importing a binding a file, you can choose to import (or not import) the tracking properties. This is a global setting so you can set this feature in your different environments. For example, you can import the tracking properties for your Development environments, and don't import the tracking properties for your Production environments. Filter artifacts in the BizTalk Administration console using a new search capability Save multiple suspended messages simultaneously to a file within Group Hub