A tool that has been an important part of the BizTalk Deployment Framework has been updated by Loren – see the codeplex project here.

XmlPreProcess is a general purpose tool in its own right for managing configuration files across multiple environments.  The tool has pulled in previously separated functionality (the excellent stuff done by Tom) so that it can consume spreadsheets (that describe environment variations) directly, rather than needing a separate process for that.  Very slick stuff !