Sometime back, i had a bizarre requirement from my customer asking us to deliver a platform, which would eliminate developers and allow the end-user to create orchestrations, services on their own. (Note: The end-user is non-technicalandshould not be concerned withtechnical details of these services in BizTalk)…I wasapprehensive in the beginning, but Jon came up with […]
Hi All,
Some coolcode samples for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta2are available now! Some of these samples are very interesting ones such as RFID, BAM Interceptors, WCFAdapter and more…
Check them out from here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/bb264601.aspx
Enjoy!
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Last night (BTW it was a Sunday) around 8PM I received a call from my ex-boss and good friend Mike Prager who is working as a Senior architect in one of the major retail project in UK, saying “Hey! SK, we had a power failure this afternoon in our data center and after the servers came back all our receive locations are disabled and send ports are not started. When I try to access them via the admin console, I’m receiving the error
“Cannot retrieve list of objects due to a WMI provider failure“
have you experienced this before.”
Well, I’ve seen this error in the past, but there are tons of things which can cause this error in BizTalk, we tried few things like checking whether all the SSO services are health on all the machines, MSDTC is running and configured correctly on each box, correct SSO master secret server is configured on the BizTalk group, etc, etc.
At last, I left Mike with the option to try DtcPing, since I’m not physically there. I couldn’t assist much.
This morning I received a call from enthusiastic Mike, saying “Hey! I solved the problem, the error is due to the race condition (dependency) between the DTC and SSO service in the SQL cluster. When the SSO service starts before the DTC, there is an issue. You get the WMI error. But if the DTC starts before SSO, everything is well and good.”
The reason I’m blogging it is I never experienced this before and it’s one of those strange things which we’ll never think about. I hope this will solve someone hours of troubleshooting time.
Thanks Mike, for sharing this information.
Nandri!
Saravana
I found out 10 minutes ago that I can now get into PopFly… what do you think of my first creation
I am very excited that I will be presenting at TechEd this year. I am presenting on Monitoring BizTalk Server with MOM. The last time that I spoke at TechEd was back in 2000. I have been a speaker at many other events and enjoy speaking but there is something really enjoyable about speaking at this event.
If you are going to be there this year, stop by and say hello.
Here is the official info:
SOA307 – Managing and Monitoring Microsoft BizTalk Server Solutions with Microsoft Operations Manager
Track(s): SOA and Web Services
Level: 300
Speaker(s): Stephen Kaufman
Recently for one of my weekend project I wanted to create a safe file name from a string. In the past people used to do lot of regular expressions and conditional testing to meet this requirement. Still the filename won’t be safe across multiple environments (Windows 2000/XP/2003 etc). But with .NET 2.0 using couple of inbuild functions (Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars and Path.GetInvalidPathChars) you can create safe filenames. Hope this piece of code will be useful to someone.
private string CreateValidFileName(string title, string extension)
{
string validFileName = title.Trim();
foreach (char invalChar in Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars())
{
validFileName = validFileName.Replace(invalChar.ToString(), “”);
}
foreach (char invalChar in Path.GetInvalidPathChars())
{
validFileName = validFileName.Replace(invalChar.ToString(), “”);
}
if (validFileName.Length > 160) //safe value threshold is 260
validFileName = validFileName.Remove(156) + “…”
return validFileName + “.” + extension;
}
Nandri!
Saravana