Biztalk : Usage of custom SSO Applications

Using SSO application in BizTalk application configuration will have lot of advantages.

1.Security - Administator can create and configure SSO application for you, so developer can use SSO application name to authenticate i.e no need to of  providing user name and passoword in the ports.

2.Can be used across all applications

3.Maintanence point of view, this is the best option because changing user id and password at one place will effect all applications running on the machine.

There are 2 simple steps to acheive this:

1. create SSO application

 ssomanage –createapps TestApp.xml

2.Enable SSO applications

ssomanage –enableapp  TestApp

3.Configure BizTalk applications

For more info : http://seroter.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/updated-ways-to-store-data-in-biztalk-sso-store/