Hyper-V BizTalk Blue Screen of Death with NLB

by | Jan 8, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I discovered a must install KB for Hyper-V BizTalk installations if you are using NLB today. 


I’m setting up the lab for our BizTalk 2009 performance boot camp next week.  We’re comparing the performance of common Orchestration scenarios and optimizations that we’ve discovered on the R2 platform on 2009 physical and 2009 running in a Hyper-V environment.  The results of this will be published in the BizTalk 2009 Performance Optimization Guide and the BizTalk 2009 Hyper-V Guide (see the previous versions http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc558617.aspx and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768518.aspx.


Because we’re using WCF receive locations I set up NLB on the Hyper-V boxes.  Everytime I logged onto the boxes and try and install BizTalk 2009 the boxes would Blue Screen of Death. 


After much troubleshooting that KB953828 resolves the issue.


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953828/en-us


 

SOA Conference coming up fast….

by | Jan 8, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Microsoft’s SOA and Business Process conference is closing in fast, it will be the 28th and 29th of this month. I don’t believe it’s sold out yet (I think it usually does), so you haven’t missed your chance to go!

Allan Naim (Microsoft) and I will be presenting a session on “Demystifying Microsoft’s SOA Offerings”, because we have reason to believe there are some folks out there that need it demystified 🙂 This is a new presentation, and will cover the entire stack, including BizTalk, ESB Guidance, WCF/WF, Dublin, Azure, MSE. We’re having fun putting it together, should be a good presentation by the time we’re done, and who knows, could well lead to some blog posts or articles.

You can find out more info about the conference, and register, at http://www.microsoft.com/soa/conference/

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Complete List of BizTalk Errors and their EventIDs

by | Jan 8, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Hi folks,

Just in case you want to be able to get an excel spreadsheet listing all the possible
errors or so, for monitoring and managing your production BizTalk environment (great
for rules and monitoring from MOM for e.g.).

 

I came across this – http://blog.paul.somers.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/27/2909713.html

 

Written by fellow BizTalk MVP – thanks Paul!

I will be speaking at the Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference

by | Jan 7, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

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I will be speaking at the 2009 Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference in Redmond, WA.

I have two presentations for this conference. 

For my first presentation, I will be co-presenting on ‘Application Lifecycle Management Experience for BizTalk Server 2009 Developers’ with Vinay Ahuja and Manoj Agarwal.

For my second presentation, I will be co-presenting on ‘Implementing an Internet Service Bus with Agent Design Patterns on a Windows Azure Services Platform’ with Danny Garber.

If you are going to be there stop by and say hello.

The following week I will be presenting two topics at our internal conference so it is shaping up to be a very busy new year.

Brimful of Azure

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The “Yull” vacation has finally given be the chance to start digging into Windows Azure. There’s quite a few services in the Azure platform and as I’ve already spent some time looking at “BizTalk Services” before it was re-branded to .net Services I thought I’d take a look at SQL Data Services (SDS).
SDS is very easy to work with if you know a bit about WCF and choose to take the SOAP road. I labbed a bit with the REST stuff and found it more complex than SOAP, so I stuck with the SOAP client.
I’ve put up a couple of webcasts on BloggersGuides.net. Enjoy…

Orchestration Designer Crash

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I recently encountered a troubling problem while creating a BizTalk 2006 R2 solution. Everything was working fine until I tried to open the Orchestration Designer to edit one of the orchestrations I had been working of for a couple of days. Visual Studio crashed immediately. I tried a few things, but I could not open any orchestration without Visual Studio crashing (no errors in event log, no dialog, nothing…).

I finally fixed it by backing up and deleting my Visual Studio profile. The profile information is stored in a folder. This folder is located in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0.

I don’t know what got messed up in the profile. Clearly some sort of VS/BizTalk bug.