Charlie Owen and John Canning - Media Center exposed, Part II

In the meantime, for more information on the Visual Studio Team System Architect features check out this page:
https://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/teamcenters/architect/default.aspx
Building complex service-oriented solutions requires several architectural considerations including services and contract design, communications security, operations manageability and provisioning, and so on. Add to this, the time-honored issues architectural
teams are mired with—architecting upfront with deployment in mind, ensuring design changes are propagated to code and vice versa, establishing seamless communication between design and development teams and design and operations teams.
Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect Edition addresses exactly these problems at the core with a set of Distributed System Designers that help reduce the complexity of developing and deploying service-oriented applications. A core deliverable of the Dynamic
Systems Initiative (DS), these designers, leveraging the System Definition Model (SDM), allow senior developers and architects to define service-oriented applications that will be configured into systems for deployment. While application architects can visualize
their service-oriented applications, developers can work with the generated code while keeping the code-changes synchronized with the visual design. In addition, the Distributed System Designers can be used to create diagrams or interconnected hosts that represent
the logical structure of a data center for the purpose of communicating important information to the developer about the target deployment environment. The Distributed System Designers can also bind applications to these logical servers and validate them against
the constraints of the application/data center prior to actual deployment.
rpipkin wrote:You're describing what BizTalk's BAM and BAS already do. You can tap into defined events in a service's orchestration and show that data via SharePOint/Excel in graphical ways. The BizTalk debugger will allow some XML inspection as well depending on how the orchestration is designed.