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BizTalk MVP Steef-Jan Wiggers has gathered this collection of resources to help with automating deployment, analyzing your BizTalk environment, and identifying performance issues.

I’m very happy to announce that Saravana Kumar has accepted my invitation to speak at the upcoming BizTalk User Group (BTUG) meeting in Almere on June, 29th. Saravana will talk about and demo BizTalk 360. Saravana has been working with BizTalk Server since the first product release early in 2001, and...

I assume anybody in the BizTalk space would have known BizTalk 360 by this time. I though I’ll just give my view of the product here. BizTalk 360 tries to address some of the real challenges we face on a BizTalk environment, especially controlled environments like Production and Test environments. There...

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...

When looking a the new features of BizTalk 2010 I noticed that the set of SQL Server Agent jobs has been extended. There is new job called ‘Monitor BizTalk Server’. This job is especially good news for those of us responsible for keeping BizTalk Server running and healthy. The general idea behind the...

This is probably not my most ‘appealing’ post but I thought I mention it anyway. I recently discovered the ‘Hide property schemas’ feature in the BizTalk Administration Console. You can right click in the schema view and select ‘Hide property schemas’. It is obvious that after enabling it, the deployed...

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...

This tool will help you design and build your BizTalk solutions by making it easier to consistently separate out your processes into multiple hosts even on your developer boxes. It will also make sure all your developers and environments are using Hosts with the same names. This can be a total nightmare...

This tool can help with importing and exporting policies and vocabularies in BizTalk Server 2004. This tool supports the use of a configuration file to limit what is imported and exported. This should also work for BizTalk 2006. Get more information from the original blog post on this topic: http://www...

This tool can help with development with Biztalk 2004. This tool will start and stop Orchestration, start and stop Send and Receive Port, remove pipelines and map from Send and Receive Port, and restart all in-process Biztalk Hosts. This tool is a great resource for any Biztalk developer. This should...

This tool can be used to monitor BizTalk Server 2004/2006 for suspended messages. Once a suspended message is detected, the message and the message context is written to disk for easy viewing. Get more information from the original blog post on this topic: http://www.biztalkgurus.com/biztalk_server/biztalk_blogs...

This tool can be used to see the Convoy properties associated with any running Orchestration processing messages as a Convoy. Note that this queries critical BizTalk tables. Run with care. This tool works with BizTalk 2004 and BizTalk 2006. Get more information from the original blog post on this topic...