BizTalk 2004 SP2 – BRE (Business Rule Engine) Fixes

by | Oct 27, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905290/


Fix 245451: BRE caches XML fields incorrectly


 


 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905571/


Fix: 245450: The Rule Engine is not honoring rule priorities correctly in high load


 


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920136/


FIX: Some Business Rule Engine values in the Windows registry are reset to the default values in BizTalk Server 2004


 


For all the bugs fixed in BTS 2004 SP2, see


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924330/


 

BizTalk 2004 SP2 – BRE (Business Rule Engine) Fixes

by | Oct 27, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905290/


Fix 245451: BRE caches XML fields incorrectly


 


 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905571/


Fix: 245450: The Rule Engine is not honoring rule priorities correctly in high load


 


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920136/


FIX: Some Business Rule Engine values in the Windows registry are reset to the default values in BizTalk Server 2004


 


For all the bugs fixed in BTS 2004 SP2, see


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924330/


 

(EDI) Features in Biztalk Server 2006 R2

by | Oct 27, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Another common ask is a summary of the EDI features supported in R2.


 


Instead of writing it out, I thought it would be more interesting to the audience to read about it via a review. So here is a link to the review, in form of a blog. This person compiled this review based of my session at TechEd in Boston in June 2006 and has done a great job in crisply presenting an overview of the product!



 


http://www.biztalkgurus.com/blogs/biztalksyn/archive/2006/06/16/EDI-Features-in-Biztalk-Server-2006-R2.aspx 


 


Nameste!


Suren


 

Managing EDI Code Lists

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One of the readers needs a recommendation on the best practices to support EDI code lists. In addition to responding directly, I deemed it an important enough clarification to post here in the blog.


The code lists are associated with the ID Data Type in the Data Element definitions and obviously there are many ways of supporting code lists. Two common approaches are: as a code list in an mdb file; or including the code list values as an enumeration/collection within the XSD schema itself. Both approaches have pros/cons.


The most efficient way of processing enumeration values/code lists at run time is to include them in the schema/definition (managed via the Enumeration Editor in Visual Studio/BTS Schema Editor) itself, as per screen shot available as an attachment with this Blog entry.


Namaste!

BizTalk 2004 SP2, New BizTalk 2006 Books

by | Oct 26, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication


So we’ve got BizTalk 2004 SP2 finally out today (hat tip: Tim Rayburn) and you can see what’s included in this must-install pack here … List of bugs that are fixed in BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2.


Also, I recently picked up both BizTalk 2006 Recipes as well as Pro BizTalk 2006. The Recipes book is a solid intro into BizTalk, nicely explains concepts in a “problem … solution” approach. The Pro book was excellent and taught me a number of things I didn’t know already. I wrote up a review on the Amazon.com page, so no need to rehash it here. So, go right now and harass your boss, spouse, neighbor, or robot master into buying you both of these for the holiday season. No, that’s not a geeky request at all.


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BizTalk 2004 SP2, New BizTalk 2006 Books

by | Oct 26, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

So we've got BizTalk 2004 SP2 finally out today (hat tip: Tim Rayburn) and you can see what's included in this must-install pack here … List of bugs that are fixed in BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2.

Also, I recently picked up both BizTalk 2006 Recipes as well as Pro BizTalk 2006. The Recipes book is a solid intro into BizTalk, nicely explains concepts in a "problem … solution" approach. The Pro book was excellent and taught me a number of things I didn't know already. I wrote up a review on the Amazon.com page, so no need to rehash it here. So, go right now and harass your boss, spouse, neighbor, or robot master into buying you both of these for the holiday season. No, that's not a geeky request at all.

Role Links Session 2

by | Oct 26, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A question was asked after reading this article: At what point is the Party resolved to the actual Party. I ran my example again, and put a breakpoint at the send port and these are my findings:

After the Destination Role Link has been set, here are the settings:

Here is the details of the actual message:

Notice that the ParyName is empty.

I sent the message (but the send port is in the stopped state) and here are the message properties:

So it looks like the resolution of Parties happens actually once the message gets submitted back to the message boxafter the orchestration is completefor the message to find out which party the message is associated with.

My biggest question is if there is a way to associate the Alias name (Party1) instead of the Organization Value (EDI:\\123456789:ZZ:123456789), the programmers reference really is not that descriptive to explain what is really going on. As soon as I learn more, I will put it here.

Called Orchestrations do not Produce Service Instances in HAT

by | Oct 26, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’m currently on Microsoft ‘Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions using MS BizTalk Server 2006′ course and in the process of working through a lab, noticed some interesting behaviour when attempting to debug orchestrations that are called from other orchestrations.
It would appear that only asynchronous (aka ’started’) orchestrations will appear as service instances in HAT […]