Deploying policies

We saw earlier how the Business Rules Composer can be used to deploy and publish policies and vocabularies, but normally the process much more closely resembles the rest of the BizTalk development and deployment pattern.

Just like in BizTalk when the "developers" of policies are finished (that's in quotes because they may not be developers like you) the policy and any vocabularies it uses are exported from the BRE as XML files, which are then imported into the next server. This isn't the only way to do this, you can include policies as resources in your BizTalk MSI, but this is the most common approach to deploying newer versions of policies.

As we discussed before, it is this ability to decouple policies from a BizTalk solution ...

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