September, 2004

Since Virtual Server has been released, I got asked the question several times so I figured I'd put the answer here where everybody can find it. Knowledge Base Article 842301 says something like: Current released versions of BizTalk (2000, 2002 ,2004...

Knowledge Base Article 838454 describes the new Microsoft.BizTalk.MessageBoxOM.MessageArchive object that was added to Microsoft.BizTalk.MessageBoxOM.dll . Currently, the package is only available through Microsoft Support. There are a few things that...

I'm over in Redmond currently for a couple of weeks working with the Biztalk Design Wins team doing some performance tuning on a solution for one of my customers, I’ve also been having a lot of fun catching up with my colleagues and friends from the...

Kevin Lam has recently started a blog, be sure to check it out, Kevin works in the Biztalk Design Wins team and I'm sure he'll share some of the great experience he has gained designing and building enterprise solutions on Biztalk.

You might have received this error message if you followed these steps: Install BizTalk 2004 on a clean machine with Visual Studio .NET 2003, Start Visual Studio and Create a new C# project (Windows Application for instance), Save the solution/Project...

Waaw... Finally got my new paper published. Like I already promised a while ago, I was working on a sample and paper, showing how custom pipelinecomponents can be created. Even better: the paper and sample code will show you how to create a *streaming...

Yet another frequently asked question. When using the BizTalk 2004 Administration Console, isolated hosts always report "Status unavailable" (see below). BizTalk Server 2004 offers two kind of hosts: In-Process Hosts and Isolated Hosts. In-Process...

Today, we continue our deep dive into the undocumented and unsupported bowels of the BizTalk artifacts compiler and examine how pipelines get compiled to .NET assemblies. Pipelines allow to adjust the format of inbound messages to something that is suitable...

Recently, I shed some light on how Maps are compiled to .NET assemblies . Perhaps one of the most asked question on microsoft.public.biztalk.* is " Calling a map from C# or VB.NET? ". This post attempts to answer that question and clarifies...

Okay, GotDotNet is way too slow getting stuff up. I guess they have to proofread and be careful since it is a public site. So, in the mean time, my friend (not my boss which appears to be the impression some people have. Scott and I got a good laugh)...

The MSBTS_ServiceInstanceSuspendedEvent WMI event is fired by the BizTalk Engine whenever a "message" is suspended. This happens (amongst other reasons) when all send retries fail (for example when a connected system is down) or whenever exceptions occur...

Do you remember those good old BizTalk 2002 days when you only had to make a couple of clicks through the BizTalk messaging manager to refresh a mapping? Well it's time to share with you a nice technique that makes BizTalk 2004 mapping updates just as...

You all probably know that MSMQ stands for 'Microsoft Message Queuing' and MSMQT is the acronym for describing the BizTalk MSMQ adapter. A quick reminder for those who already forgot: the "T" in MSMQT stands for transactional (not “Transport”) Probably...

'Hello world!': These are the words I’d like to welcome you with. During the past couple of months I must have read almost every BizTalk blog available. Each and every one of them has proven to be an incredible source of information. More than once...

Firstly apologies for the lack of activity on my blog, I have several reasonable sized pieces of work that I’ve been trying to finish off ready for posting, this is the one of those pieces, and I wanted to get this one out now as I’m off to Redmond for...

Okay, so I don't have a link for it, but I have submitted it so hopefully it will show up shortly. I have written a paper entitled Biztalk 2004 Advanced Messagebox Queries which is designed to help you automate a lot of your operational health management...

HAT to people who have gone live, know it's a bit of a dog.

I was quite shocked to find out the night before, that I had one the BizTalk Server Competition ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/bpi...

Microsoft just made the results of the BizTalk Server contest public. I immediately started googling but it appears that Paul Somer's entry is not downloadable yet... (Please drop me a line if I'm wrong.) Neverthless, a few cool cool toys appeared on...

Okay, I have seen this copied on two different blogs, so it is apparently usefull enough that others might be interested. I posted this originally on a public discussion alias in response to a question on where mappings should be done. “While there are...