Thanks for your comment and for providing the two additional links.
I do agree the MSDN topic I referred to is a little bit confusing. The other links provide a clear description on the topic.

Randal

The BizTalk MSDN documentation is a bit misleading…the referenced section sub-topic is “ASP.NET settings that can impact HTTP or SOAP Adapter performance” and it states at the top of the sub-section “The following settings can be applied to an ASP.NET application that hosts a web application that the HTTP or SOAP adapter communicates with. These parameters are set in the web.config or machine.config files of the server hosting the web application.”

BUT then for some reason we state “If the BizTalk Server computer is running ASP.NET 2.0 or later then you can set autoConfig=true”. This is very confusing, as it should state “If the machine hosting the web services is running ASP.NET 2.0 or later…”.

We also have the topic in the BizTalk 2009 documentation “SOAP Adapter Configuration and Tuning Parameters” ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560822.aspx ), and I think we do a better job of documenting this as well in the Operations Guide under the topic “Setting SOAP and HTTP Adapter Concurrent Connections” ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296870.aspx ).

Bottom line, I’ll open a doc bug to see if I can get this clarified on the page you referenced.

Thanks for catching this!