Microsoft provides adapters that allow you communicate to
almost any data repository available. Windows SharePoint Services is a free
add-on to Windows Server. This new version has a lot more extensibility than
the previous version. Microsoft has put a lot of effort into providing more
functionality back into the hand of the developers. For instance, Windows
SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 has 30+ namespaces that you can reference on your
code, versus WSS 2.0 which only had less than 15 namespaces. SharePoint and
BizTalk offer a tremendous combination of flexibility for your enterprise.
NOTE: In this article we are
assuming that the environment is already setup according to the single server
installation instructions guidelines from Microsoft. Please follow the
Installation and Upgrade Guides for BizTalk 2006. [See References section at
the end of this article.]