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Inserting lots of rows into SQL with a Logic App and a Stored Procedure

by michaelstephensonuk | Dec 9, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

When you are working with API’s and Logic Apps and there is lots of rows of data involved you will sometimes come up with the following problems: An API often pages the data once you go beyond a certain number of records When you want to insert lots of rows with...

BizTalk Server 2016 CU5 Installation error: SQLNCLI11 ole db provider not found in the system

by Sandro Pereira | Dec 9, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

There are simple BizTalk Server installations and then there are some quite annoying BizTalk Server topologies and complex configurations which tend to give rise to the appearance of diverse types of errors: SQLNCLI11 ole db provider not found in the system....

BizTalk Server MSI installation error: There is a problem with this Windows Installer package

by Sandro Pereira | Dec 7, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

There is something special when you find a solution or possible solution to an annoying error message (for not using another type of language) and this is one of these cases: There is a problem with this Windows Installer package! This error occurred each time my team...

Introducing Send Port Groups for Monitoring in BizTalk360

by Sowmiya Subramanian | Dec 6, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

We are super excited to welcome our new release version of BizTalk360, v8.9.5. Here is a blog which explains the new feature introduction of Send Port Groups Monitoring in BizTalk360 v8.9.5. One of the most powerful and overlooked features in BizTalk Server is Send...

Host Integration Server: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime while open HIS Configuration Console

by Sandro Pereira | Dec 6, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

This week I installed on a BizTalk Server 2016 environment Host Integration Server 2016 (HIS), and to my surprise, I was receiving this quite unusual and annoying error: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime. Each time I try to open the HIS Configuration...

Guest blog by Peter Vervoorn – Recipe: Calling multiple Disassemblers in a Receive pipeline

by Sandro Pereira | Dec 4, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Happy to introduce my first guest blog author: Peter Vervoorn from Virtual Green. Peter is a very experienced integration specialist. He has been working in ICT since 1995 and was a co-founder of Axon Olympus (now part of the Codit Group). Until his sabbatical in 2014...