Any Successful deployments of BPM Suite?

Question

Hello All,
I was just wondering if anyone has had some good success with BPM Suite. Where they have built more than a toy, and deployed in anger. Got past the frustrations of initial use, figured out the issues, and made BPM Suite dance to their tune?
Short summaries would be much appreciated.
Anthony

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge, BizTalk does not impose any restrictions on certificate types.
BizTalk uses certificates demanded by the Interface or provider. For e.g.: if consuming a web service over SSL, BizTalk only requires that the certificate be trusted either through a valid trust chain or explicitly. Similarly when required to present a certificate
as part of a interface for purposes of client authentication, the certificate has to be available in the certificate store of the account associated with the BizTalk Host Instance. When exposing services, BizTalk does not care if the certificate used for SSL
is self-signed or SAN based hosted on the NLB or external server, etc.
The reason for asking for a SAN S/MIME certificate for use within BizTalk may be driven from the need to restrict the number of certificates required while accessing multiple e-mail accounts through the BizTalk POP adapter. Since the certificate configuration
is at a port level, each port could technically have different user specific certificates all of which may be hosted under same certificate store. The problem arises if the Microsoft CA is configured in an Active Directory integrated mode where it will not
permit multiple certificates to be issued against ONE Account. If however the CA is deployed in a Standalone mode then multiple user certificates can be issued without any connection to the underlying AD accounts and each can have a different e-mail address
associated with it.
Regards.