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One of the interesting challenges I’ve faced in the last year was creating a flat file schema for a well established custom flat file format that was in use at one of my clients. What made this flat file format different from most that I had dealt with in the past was that this flat […] Blog...

I just encountered an error using the BAM views. None of the BAM views could be opened and I got following error: An unspecified error has occurred. Use the navigation bar on the left to access Business Activity Monitoring views. If the problem persists, contact your System Administrator. Unfortunately...

BizTalk Server includes a powerful publish/subscribe mechanism for messaging applications that works by creating and filling subscriptions, which provides a highly efficient and scalable platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. The BizTalk ESB Toolkit extends the functionality of...

UDDI Services provides Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) capabilities for sharing information about Web services within an organization’s intranet, between business partners on an extranet, or on the Internet. UDDI Services can help improve the productivity of developers...

BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 along with BizTalk AppFabric Connect, RFID features, UDDI services and ESB Toolkit are not automatically installed with the default installation process, instead you have to additional install this features The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack contains adapters that enable enterprise...

At a certain point in time when installing BizTalk, you will need to install some extra components. In the BizTalk installation wizard this is referred to as a prerequisite file. This file can be downloaded automatically from within the wizard, but you might want to download them first. Here's the...

I have run into an instance where I need to terminate and raise an exception from within an XSLT template, based on values (or lack thereof) within the source document. The XSLT transform is running within a BizTalk map. The secret is the following little-known XSLT construct, which can be conditionally...

After you configure with success BizTalk Server 2013 BAM Alerts, the configurator will create a new Database Mail Account called “BAM_Alerts_Account” that will be used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts. To Validate Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts: Press the “Windows key” to switch to Metro...

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Well folks I’ve been greeted with the news that Microsoft Windows Azure will be in 2 geo-replicated places here on Australian soil, coming ‘shortly’. As an Azure MVP & from Breeze (a leading Microsoft Cloud Partner) perspective we invest heavily in cloud technologies. What does this mean and why...

Under certain stress conditions (such as clients accessing SQL Server from the same computer), the SQL Server Shared Memory protocol may lower BizTalk Server performance. You can resolve this problem by disabling the use of the Shared Memory network protocol in SQL Server Network Configuration. Also...

BizTalk 2013 is out, but this is obviously old news for most of you. With a lot of new features and support for on premises, or in the cloud, this new version seems exciting and maybe challenging… To help you overcome any potential issues and to make sure you are ready for the new version, Codit organizes...

In this section you’ll install BizTalk Server, confirm that the installation succeeded, and then configure BizTalk Server. When you installed SQL Server, setup granted your account Database Administrator rights. Since these rights are also required for installing BizTalk Server, you must do one of the...

If your BizTalk Server environment uses SQL Server 2012 and you wish to configure BAM Alerts, you must have already configured SQL Server Database Mail feature before you try to configure BAM Alerts, otherwise the BizTalk Basic configuration will ignore this feature (BAM Alerts). Database Mail is an...

BizTalk Server provides the capability to specify a business process and also a mechanism by which the applications used in that business process can communicate with each other. SQL Server is the main repository for this communication mechanism. For optimal performance, Microsoft recommends using the...

A while ago we started a series on explaining some of the new features that were introduced in BizTalk 2013 in more detail. We’ve already discussed the XslCompiledTransform API and the Improvements in dynamic send ports. A complete list of the new features in BizTalk 2013 can be found in our post...

The BizTalk Server development tools are based on Visual Studio. And like previous versions, at a minimum, you must have the Microsoft Visual C#® .NET component of Visual Studio installed on your computer if you wish to install the BizTalk Server Developer Tools and SDK component. Note: Visual Studio...

In a few weeks, I’ll be heading to New Orleans to speak at Microsoft TechEd for the first time. My topic – Patterns of Cloud Integration – is an extension of things I’ve talked about this year in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and in my latest Pluralsight course. However, I’ll also be covering some entirely...

Microsoft Office Excel is required for using the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) feature in BizTalk Server. You use the BAM Office Excel Workbook to define the business processes you want to monitor. You also use the BAM Excel Workbook to define the way in which business users see the data collected...

This is a continuation from two other blog posts about upgrading from BizTalk 2010 to BizTalk 2013. Mike who I mentioned previously has given the following tip if you are having trouble getting the Alerting service in the Exception Management Service working in BizTalk 2013. “….make sure: 1) BizTalk...

Again in the previous step “Enable Internet Information Services” I mentioned that we should install the SMTP Server feature, why? If you wish to configure BAM Alerts, you must have configured SQL Server Database Mail feature (we will see how to accomplish that afterwards) and I will intend to configure...

With the latest release of a BizTalk administration white paper by Tord G. Nordahl the story of running and maintaining BizTalk is complete. Through BizTalk360 site you can obtain the white paper: Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments. This paper will you learn...

In the previous step “Enable Internet Information Services” I mentioned that we should install the Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 feature, why? If we plan to use/configure SharePoint Services adapter or SharePoint Online when used with SharePoint Services Client Side Object Model (CSOM), then Windows...

Our BizTalk team have been trying to complete a in place upgrade from BizTalk 2010 to BizTalk 2013. The first part of this story can be found here. We completed the upgrade as described in that post but we struck this error and were stuck on it for awhile; This error occurred whenever we browsed [.....

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a Web application infrastructure for many BizTalk Server features. BizTalk Server requires IIS for the following features: HTTP adapter SOAP adapter Windows SharePoint Services adapter Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption BAM Portal To install IIS...