Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns

Performing a simple update to the policy

We want to slightly adjust the way the prices are calculated. The discount for new customers, which is currently none, must be set to 0.95. We must update the policy to do this. We cannot simply go and change our policy though, because it is already in the enterprise and is being used. To do this, we must version our policy. Versioning, which is done to both policies and vocabularies, allows us to keep a history of what rules were active in what timeframe. By default, the Call Rules shape in orchestration always uses the latest version of a given policy. The old policies remain, unless we explicitly delete them, so that we can run them explicitly if we need to and audit when they were changed. It turns ...