Error while building a flat file schema with TFS
Lately I came across a weird exception, while building a BizTalk project with Team Foundation Server. Let’s have a look.
Azure Virtual Network Preview (using DrayTek 2830 ADSL2 Router)
To follow on from my preview post about Working with Azure Virtual Network Preview, I have continued to work with the Azure Virtual Network Preview this post is about setting up the VPN with my new ADSL2 router (from this post New Internet Hardware for Home).
Currently the only supported hardware devices are from Cisco and Juniper, but using the following 2 blog posts as guides I was able to get the VPN working with my new Draytek 2830.
Windows Azure Virtual Network VPN with TMG 2010
Create a Virtual Network for Cross-Premises Connectivity
To start I followed the link above “Create a Virtual Network for Cross-Premises Connectivity”, to setup the Azure side of the virtual network.
Once the gateway was created, I opened the Draytek 2830 (Firmware Version 3.6.3) configuration tool, select VPN and Remote Access, selected LAN to LAN
Click Index 1. (or the next available if some already configured
In the Common Settings, Update the Profile Name to the name of your choice, my choice was “azure”, select the “Enable this profile” check box, select the VPN Dial-Out connection, click “Always on” check box
In the Dial-Out Settings, Click the radio button in front of “IPsec Tunnel”, Enter the Gateway IP Address from the Azure Portal
Click the IKE Pre-Shared Key from the Manage Key button in the Azure Portal
In the IPsec Security Method, select High (ESP) AES with Authentication, Click the Advanced Button, Select AES128_SHA1_G2 and AES128_SHA1
In the Dial-In Setting make sure “IPsec Tunnel is selected
Nothing is required in GRE over IPsec Settings
In the TCP/IP Network Settings, Enter the IP Address of your Internet Connection and the IP Address of the remote Gateway in Azure, Enter your Remote Network IP and Mask, Enter your local Network IP and Mask and Select “Route”
Click OK on the bottom of the configuration page, click Connection Management to see if the connection has been established, it may take a couple of minutes to initially establish, but once it is connected, this is what you should see
On the Azure Portal you should also see
These setting should work for any router that support the same settings.
Hope this helps anyone trying to configure an Azure Virtual Network VPN.
Error while building a BizTalk 2006 solution on Visual Studio 2005: The key container name ’key.snk’ does not exist
Today while I was playing with BizTalk Server 2006, yes I know very old stuff, but sometimes is needed and for those who are accustomed to developer BizTalk solutions knows that we need to sign the project with a strong name assembly key file before we deploy them nothing new. The funniest part came when […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Permissions required to run a WMI Query in a Custom Pipeline Component
One of my younger colleagues was to using a custom pipeline to resolve a party and found that it gave the following permissions error; A message received by adapter “FILE” on receive location “RetailDailyUpload_FILE” with URI “D:\Pickup\RetailOrders\*.dat” is suspended. Error details: There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: “BT.RetailDailyUpload.Pipelines.Rcv_RetailDailyUpload, BT.RetailDailyUpload.Pipelines, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=893df15911a06f7d” Source: […]
Blog Post by: mbrimble
Survey to Gauge interest by City for BizTalk Saturday-BizTalk Server 2013 Hands on Days
If you are interested in attending a BizTalk Saturday – BizTalk Server 2013 Hands on Day in Australia or New Zealand (sorry, please use other and specify Auckland or Wellington), please fill out the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PXGYNRP
New Internet Hardware for Home
Over the holidays I have given my home Infrastructure a serious upgrade, I have replaced my ADSL router and added a new Wireless Access Point to the network.
I replaced my old faithful Draytek 2800 ADSL router with a new Draytek 2830 Triple-WAN ADSL2+ Router with 4-port Gigabit LAN Switch, the upgrade now gives me a couple of features that I have been waiting for:
- IPv6 support, I can now use the native ‘dual-stack’ IPv6 that is part of my Internode connection
- Azure Virtual Network VPN (router support all the IPSec setting required)
- Gigabit LAN connections
- USB port with support for my Telstra 4G modem, as an emergency backup
The upgrade when very smooth, I am now syncing a bit faster than with the old router, download speed are a bit better, I am on a Telstra RIM that has been TopHat upgraded to ADSL2.
The new access point is a EnGenius EAP600, EAP600 is a concurrent dual-band 2.4+5GHz Wireless-N Indoor Access Point that features high transmit RF power (29 dBm on 2.4GHz and 26 dBm on 5GHz) for long range connectivity. With wireless speeds up to 300Mbps on each radio and a Gigabit port for connecting to a switch, which looks like a smoke detector.
I have now installed this strategically in the family area to cover all of the house and the back deck with strong wireless signal.
I now need to look at upgrading the wireless card in one of my Dell laptops so it can take advantage of the high speed wireless.
The router also has an Ethernet WAN port so when, in the distant future, the NBN comes to Beaconsfield, I am ready.
General: Handy little Command line tip for Restarting Services from a Batch File
Hi folks, I came across a very handy little tip the other day that works with *any*
set of Batch Commands that you want to run sequentially.
Now before you jump out and tell me “Mick, what are you doing?! Powershell is where
it’s at!”.yes yes I know. I’ve half the guys at the office telling me that too.
So onto the goodness on this one:
The key is
<cmd> && <cmd>
e.g.
net stop “Print Spooler” && net start “Print Spooler”
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
Our experience organising BizTalk Summit London – 2013
We are very proud to be the sole partner organising this event BizTalk Summit 2013, London along with help of Microsoft UK and the BizTalk product group back in Redmond. This is the biggest BizTalk event conducted in Europe with nearly 140 attendees, 74 different companies from 15 different countries (UK, Ireland, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, […]
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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar
BizTalk Host Instance stuck in “Stop pending” state when trying to restart the instance
Last week I have encountered an unusual situation in my BizTalk Server 2010 production environment when I was trying to restart BizTalk Host Instance after publishing a small change in one of my applications, one of the host instances got stuck in “Stop pending” state. The major problem of this stage is that we cannot […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Mark Brimble
This year I like to continue with the BizTalk Community Series. In January 2012 I started with Tord G. Nordahl, who recently was awarded Microsoft Integration MVP. He was very committed to the BizTalk community for quite a while and proven to be a great contributor to the community. I ended with 25th story on my colleague Sander Nefs.
The story today will be on Mark Brimble a Principle Integration Architect since 2007 for Datacom in Auckland, New Zealand (NZ). This company has the largest group of BizTalk professionals in NZ (24 people). He spends most of his spare time with my wife Margaret and daughter Rebecca. Rebecca is a bassoon player and Mark attends her concerts when he can. He also enjoys travelling with my wife who speaks at many overseas conferences.
Mark also enjoys playing chess and likes to go fishing. He plays tennis and golf when time allows. When it comes to team sports Mark supports the All Blacks rugby team and any team playing Australia.
Mark’s outline of his career:
“Before BizTalk I was a support analyst for eGate which is now JavaCaps (in another life I was a chemist but that is another story). I was introduced to BizTalk 2002 in 2003 by Emil Velinov and Thiago Almeida. I decided then that BizTalk was my future. When Thiago left that company I had to assume not only an administrator but also a developer role. After migration from to BizTalk 2004 and then to BizTalk 2006 I wanted to move to a role where I was only responsible for development and I moved to Datacom as BizTalk developer. After a while at Datacom I was pleased to renew my relationship with Thiago when he also joined. At that time all the buzz was the new WCF adapters in BizTalk 2006R2 and look back now at all the fun we had learning how to use them. Since BizTalk 2009 I have spent more time designing integration solutions, pre-sales presentations and mentoring BizTalk developers. We have some promising BizTalk developers so watch out for them because I think one of them might be Datacom’s next MVP.”
Mark has always been a fan of the BizTalk development experience and the administration console since he first saw it in BizTalk 2004. He likes the way you can build/configure a simple interface very quickly and the monitoring is always there. The most challenging thing Mark has ever had to do was write a WCF socket adapter to connect to vending machines. The project that this was for won an award.
Mark started his blog as a bit of a dare from one of his colleagues. He tried to write something every month and it is a record of his integration projects. Mark also feels it is a way of giving a little bit back to the community that has helped him so much in the past.
“If one person is helped by my blog then it is all worthwhile.”
I could not agree more. Thank you Mark for your time and contributions to the community.
Cheers,
Steef-Jan