BizTalk Server Tip #5: Health Check with Message Box Viewer

Run Message Box Viewer (MBV) daily to evaluate the health state of your BizTalk environment, this tool brings the knowledge of Microsoft Product Group, Support and Field Engineers into a single report. You can schedule MBV from either MBV itself or via BizTalk360 to run every day and be notified if any new critical or […]

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Blog Post by: Ricardo Torre

BizTalk Instrumentation – An Initial Foray into the CAT Framework

BizTalk Instrumentation – An Initial Foray into the CAT Framework

I have spent some time recently looking into the Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Teams (herein “CAT”) BizTalk instrumentation framework and I will report here on some of my findings… In short, I have become quite excited about the potential if offers not only to instrument BizTalk solutions (in development and production environments) but also […]
Blog Post by: James Corbould

BizTalk Server Tip #4: Minimize persistence points

Minimize the amount of persistence points when developing your solution to guarantee scalability, throughput and low latency. Persisting data to the database is the single most expensive task in BizTalk, to avoid them you can group together send shapes in Orchestrations or not using Orchestrations all together by leveraging static or content based routing. Investigate […]

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Blog Post by: Ricardo Torre

Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.Management.BamManagerException: Encountered error while executing command on SQL Server "servername". -> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object ’bam_Metadata_GetProperty’, data

Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.Management.BamManagerException: Encountered error while executing command on SQL Server "servername". -> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object ’bam_Metadata_GetProperty’, data

Last week while making a simple BizTalk Server 2013 multi-computer environment (1 SQL Server and 1 BizTalk Server both running Windows Server 2012) configuration I faced several issues to properly configure BAM Portal, this was the first one was described in my previous blog post. This is the second one: By solving the problem described […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Sentinet – Service Virtualization Part 3 – REST to SOAP

In the previous post I have demonstrated part of the Sentinet, its UX and the management side of it that shows how to build SOA solution using the concept of service virtualization.

In this post I would like to discuss and highlight some other management aspects like monitoring. I will do this by further modifying my sample and setting up a new virtual service that will expose a REST endpoint

BizTalk Server Tip #6: Choose robust adapters

Prefer Adapters that implement good error handling capabilities to minimize the errors inside your integration platform. Handling failures of integration business processes is key for a trustworthy platform and will push the accountability back to the owners of the data being processed as well as increase transparency.  

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Blog Post by: Ricardo Torre

BizTalk Server Tip #3: BAM lightweight tracking

Use BAM as a lightweight tracking mechanism, by disabling default tracking and enabling BAM activities on a message flow you can reduce the performance impact of tracking. BizTalk default tracking takes an all or nothing approach and using BAM you can decide exactly what needs to be tracked. When BizTalk default tracking is enabled BizTalk […]

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Blog Post by: Ricardo Torre

BAM Portal configuration error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. (Configuration)

BAM Portal configuration error: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. (Configuration)

Last week while making a simple BizTalk Server 2013 multi-computer environment (1 SQL Server and 1 BizTalk Server both running Windows Server 2012) configuration I faced several issues to properly configure BAM Portal, this was the first one. I was able to properly configure all the features: Enterprise SSO, Group, BizTalk Runtime, Business Rules Engine, […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira