By David Chernicoff
TechNet Virtual Lab: Working with Pipelines does a good job of pulling the covers off of some basic BizTalk functionality by walking the user through the process of configuring Biztalk and setting up a custom pipeline.
By providing the bulk of the project in predefined form, Microsoft enables the user to walk through the process of building and deploying the project easily within the time constraints of a 60 minute Virtual Lab. The user works with both Visual Studio and Biztalk Server administration in the course of the lab.
The information presented in TechNet Virtual Lab: Working with Pipelines demystifies the complexities often associated with using BizTalk server and implementing pipelines.
TIP: If the automated actions in Visual Studio fail, the manual has instructions for doing the tasks manually, which actually manages to give the user a better understanding of what is going on.