Authentication types that are available for the SOAP port in partner profiles in BizTalk Server 2004

This article contains information about the types of authentication that are available when you create a SOAP port in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004.

If you create a normal SOAP port in BizTalk Server 2004, the following four types of authentications are available:

• Anonymous authentication
• Basic authentication
• NTLM authentication (NT LAN Manager or the formerly named Microsoft Windows NT Challenge/Response authentication)
• Digest authentication

If you create a partner template in the Business Activity Services (BAS) layer of BizTalk Server 2004, the following two types of authentications are available:

• Anonymous authentication
• NTLM Authentication (NT LAN Manager or the formerly named Windows NT Challenge/Response authentication)