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Just play around with PowerShell and some BizTalk administrative and maintenance tasks… It’s always good to know what software is installed in our environment. Sometimes we need to know what version of BizTalk is installed or what version of the Adapter Pack, x86 or x64? And preferably be able to get...

In two of my previous posts I introduced and explained how to debug BizTalk components in Visual Studio: BizTalk – How to debug Custom Pipeline Components running on Isolated Host and Debugging External assembly’s or pipeline components – Attach to Process – which BizTalk process to use?. In the last...

Introduction On a recent project I was calling a PowerShell script and wanted to return Xml from the script so that I could iterate on an object using Linq to Xml. I investigated options available for exporting an object in Powershell to Xml and looked at some built-in cmdlets like Export-CliXml: http...

With ADFS I am really starting to think it would be useful to have a way to just run a PowerShell test script to diagnose issues, much like a series of unit tests, maybe call it configuration test. Many of the configuration challenges with ADFS could be diagnosed with some scripts. So I made one [.....

Introduction Today I was working on moving my ADFS environment to a separate VM so I could test out a deployment guide I had been working on. On my VM1 I had installed ADFS with Windows Internal Database (WID) in a standalone mode. In my target VM2 I had installed ADFS on SQL 2008 R1 [...] Blog Post...

A short post to let the users of the PowerShell provider for BizTalk know we have released a new version. In the previous versions in some circumstances the provider (and PowerShell runtime) crashed when adding a new resource using the new-item cmdlet. This, among some other things, has now been fixed...

Some of the beauty of using PowerShell is the ability to rapidly do things that would take a long time to do in .NET code. But you can do this without opening Visual Studio. I have found many uses for PowerShell in working with BizTalk. One area it comes in handy is working with BizTalk [...]

Introduction I have been meaning for a while to add some PowerShell posts to my blog but had been busy lately. I have been using the BizTalk PowerShell provider (http://psbiztalk.codeplex.com) that my friend Randal van Splunteren helped create. I now use PowerShell all the time in my BizTalk work and...

*** Dijkstra en ik hebben een artikel geschreven over BizTalk en PowerShell. Het artikel is recent gepubliceerd in de gedrukte versie van TechNet magazine. Het artikel is helaas nog niet online beschikbaar. Note to international readers of my blog: The above post is aimed at the Dutch community and therefor...

About a month ago we had a problem in migrating an old BizTalk application from development environment to quality environment. This application sign the incoming messages, base in the certificate installed in the machine, and put this signature in one record in the body of the message, all of this is...

get-service BTS* | foreach-object -process {restart-service $_.Name} You can also set all your BTS Services to start ‘automatic’ as follows: get-service BTS* | foreach-object -process {set-service $_.Name -startuptype automatic} By Mick Breeze Tags: BizTalk | PowerShell

Just a quick link to a post on Maxime’s blog: http://maxime-labelle.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D8D9369449D177DA!236.entry Maxime added support for deploying vocabularies and policies to the PowerShell provider for BizTalk. In our opinion this is the easiest way to deploy BRE artefacts. For now it is only...

I wrote a very simple PowerShell script which allows you to easily determine the installed BizTalk version and service pack level. You cannot just look at the version number anymore because it seems SP1 of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 does not update the version number. This means the version numbers for BizTalk...

A couple of people have reported a nasty bug in the PowerShell Provider version 1.0 Beta. The provider doesn’t seem to work when SQL Server (hosting the BizTalk management database) is on a remote SQL Server. Although we will have this fixed in the 1.0 final release I decided to provide a hotfix right...

Windows 7 has some nice and very welcome functionality for attaching/detaching VHD files so that you can access files in them directly from the operating system, which is something I’ve been finding very useful when working out of my laptop. Unfortunately, it’s a bit of a drag to have to go through disk...

Jeffrey Knight was kind enough to point out a small missing thing in the expressions for built-in variables in my modified syntax file for PowerShell scripts for Vim. I’ve now updated the syntax file in my github repository following Jeffrey’s suggestion and also fixed another related issue while at...

Again another post in the series of more advanced things you can do with the PowerShell provider for BizTalk. When debugging BizTalk solutions you find yourself many times in a situation where you need to attach the Visual Studio debugger to the running BizTalk host instance. This is very easy to do...

Yesterday the new issue of BizTalk HotRod Magazine was published. Besides other nice content it contains an article on our PowerShell Provider for BizTalk. Tagged: BizTalk, PowerShell

Moving your host configuration from one server to another can be daunting and time consuming task. This usually needs to be done when you hand over stuff from development to test, or from test to production. On those environments you mostly want to have the exact same host configuration as you have on...

Every application needs management. Ideally an application should provide two ways of management. First an administrator needs a (graphical) console to be able to do single or ad-hoc actions like changing configuration, responding to error conditions, etc. Second there should be a way for an administrator...

This is the first in a series of posts where I want to show some more advanced scripts and things you can do with the PowerShell provider for BizTalk. I usually do a lot of tryouts and proof of concepts on my development box. In my urge to get things working I never spend too much [...]

For people interested in both PowerShell and BizTalk, I just finished a getting started guide to introduce the basics of the PowerShell provider for BizTalk (version 1.0 beta). The guide can be downloaded from here. Tagged: BizTalk, BizTalk Management, BizTalk tools, PowerShell

After a couple of months of hard work (mainly in the evenings ) we are very proud to announce the beta release of the PowerShell provider for BizTalk. The setup (and source) can be downloaded from codeplex. I hope BizTalk developers and administrators will find this a useful addition to their toolbox...

Maxime wrote a nice post to introduce our PowerShell Provider for BizTalk. You can find it here. There is also a link to a great presentation that they (Michel and Maxime) did at the French BizTalk User Group. The presentation is in the French language. For me that means I had to use the translation...

A couple of months ago I joined with Michel Hubert and Maxime Labelle to build the next version of the Powershell provider for BizTalk. (Also see my earlier posts here and here). We´re currently very close to releasing the first beta of this new version. The provider now uses a separate object layer...