BizTalk Health Monitor - Using Older Versions of BizTalk

BizTalk 2013 R2 was just released not long ago.  One of the new tools that comes with BizTalk 2013 R2 is the BizTalk Health Monitor:

To review:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalkhealthmonitor/archive/2014/06/26/overview-of-biztalk-health-monitor-bhm.aspx

And http://blogs.technet.com/b/jpierauc/archive/2014/06/26/quot-biztalk-health-monitor-quot-now-available-in-biztalk-2013-r2.aspx

And  http://blog.jeroenmaes.eu/2014/06/biztalk-health-monitor-new-feature-in-biztalk-2013-r2/

To install:
http://blog.jeroenmaes.eu/2014/06/enable-biztalk-health-monitor-biztalk-2013-r2/

In a nutshell, the BHM incorporates:

• Integration of the MessageBox Viewer tool
• Performance analysis thanks to integrated PerfMon
• Easy SQL Job Status monitoring
• Automatic Archiving of Health reports

Finally, some consolidation of common BizTalk tools (and a few other things as well)…

If you look at the second link from above, you will notice the following:

“Note that BHM will work also with previous versions of BizTalk targeting any versions of BizTalk groups since BizTalk 2004 ;-) “

Cool…  So of course I had to try it against my BizTalk 2010 instance (using the last link for install instructions).  And... it works!

I downloaded the BizTalk 2013 R2 iso file via MSDN.

Update:  The BHM is now available as a separate download.  See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalkhealthmonitor.