How to Publish a Policy
This topic describes how to use the BizTalk Server Administration console to publish a policy in a BizTalk group. Publishing a policy makes it available to add to a BizTalk application, as described in How to Add a Policy to an Application.
Before you can publish a policy, it must exist in the Rule Engine database for the BizTalk group. There are three ways to import a policy into the Rule Engine database:
You can import an application that contains a policy. When you do this, the policy is automatically imported into the Rule Engine database.
You can explicitly import a policy into the Rule Engine database by using the administration console or BTSTask, as described in How to Import a Policy.
You can add a policy to the Rule Engine database by using the Rule Engine Deployment Wizard, as described in How to Deploy and Undeploy Policies and Vocabularies.
Note
While a published policy can be overwritten by another policy that you import, should you specify this option, a published vocabulary can never be overwritten. To update a published vocabulary, you must remove it from the Rule Engine database and then import the new version.
Prerequisites
To perform the procedure in this topic, you must be logged on with an account that is a member of the BizTalk Server Administrators group. For more detailed information on permissions, see Permissions Required for Deploying and Managing a BizTalk Application.
To publish a policy
Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft BizTalk Server 20xx, and then click BizTalk Server Administration.
In the console tree, expand BizTalk Server Administration, expand the BizTalk group containing the policy to publish, expand Applications, and then expand <All Artifacts>.
Click Policies, right-click the policy, and then click Publish.
Note
In order to publish a policy, any assemblies that are referenced by the policy must be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) of the BizTalk Server computer before you open BizTalk Server Administration. When BizTalk Server Administration is opened, it maintains a cache of the assemblies that are installed into the GAC. This cache is not updated until BizTalk Server Administration is closed and reopened. If you attempt to publish a policy and publication fails because a referenced assembly is not installed in the GAC you must close BizTalk Server Administration, install the referenced assembly into the GAC, open BizTalk Server Administration, and then publish the policy.