October 2004 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Administrating multiple BizTalk 2004 environments from a single machine / Remote HAT

It can turn out to be useful to use Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) and the BizTalk Server Administration Console “remotely” (that is, from a machine other than one of the actual servers in the BizTalk group.) This can be the case if you...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2004 8:49 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Tools

BTSInstaller "bug"

After hours of fighting it, I have concluded that deploying a solution that utilizes Roles and Party's can't be installed using an MSI created with the BTSInstaller. You can use the same binding file and assemblies and use BTSDeploy and it all works fine...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2004 9:40 PM by Todd Uhl

Another Kevin is posting. :)

Kevin Lam has decided to start his own blog. He's been on the team for a while now and is one of the product team's frontline guys. He is the guy out there working with the big customers, helping with their designs, getting there stuff into our labs,...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2004 2:51 PM by BizTalk Core Engine's WebLog

The "Use MSMQ Authentication" Option

I recently went through a really nast bout of troubleshooting with the client I currently work with, related to MSMQT. Hopefully, my tale can save you similar pain. The core issues was this: The BizTalk MSMQT adapter can be configured during installation...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2004 5:37 PM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights

Shared Config Files........

BizTalk server relies on a config file to store certain application information. This config file is located in \Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and is named BTSNTSvc.Exe.Config. View your file here (DO NOT CHANGE THIS FILE WITHOUT BACKING...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2004 8:41 AM by Todd Uhl

Rule engine - Another way to debug the rule engine

This simulates an orchestration callrules action from code: MyArrayList = new System.Collections.ArrayList(); MyPolicy = new Microsoft.RuleEngine.Policy(YourPolicyName); MyTracer = new Microsoft.RuleEngine.DebugTrackingInterceptor(); You will have to...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2004 10:16 PM by El Grego's BizTalk blog

Role Link Sample.....better late than never.....

I applogize for being anything but prompt on this. The zip file can be found here . Steps for setting up Role Link Sample - 1. Create a receive port in BTS Explorer 2. Create 2 send ports - RoleLinkTest_Approver1 and RoleLinkTest_Approver2 3. Set your...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2004 9:23 PM by Todd Uhl

Flat File Parser Annotations

Here's a presentation containing an overview of the flat file parser annotations that can be manually inserted into the BizTalk message schema. This is part of a presentation I gave at the Belgian BTS user group meeting a couple of weeks ago. There is...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2004 10:23 PM by El Grego's BizTalk blog

Hosts and Host Instances

Before I begin, I promise I am working on getting my role link example up here. There was some confusion with server space to upload the example to. Ok....I know when I first started with BTS'04, it was slightly confusing to me what the whole host/host...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2004 8:59 AM by Todd Uhl

More GMail accounts for BizTalk Server people

As appearantly everyone is eagerly looking for a gmail account, I will give away a few more. (At least, my previous blog makes me think that :-)) I'll invite to gmail, the first 5 people who can tell me why I implemented my streaming pipeline component...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2004 10:12 AM by Christof Claessens' WebLog

Filed under: BizTalk Server 2004