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Following my previous post here’s another small contribution: Item Template for Visual Studio 2010: Custom BizTalk Functoid. The New Functoid Class item template for Visual Studio 2010 allows you to create new Functoids for BizTalk Server 2010 without having to code the entire class and therefore allowing you to focus on what really matters, the […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
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We have a 5 day BizTalk Server 2010 Developer course scheduled for the 13th – 17th of August in Melbourne.
The BizTalk Server 2010 Developer Training is an update version of the existing BizTalk training that now includes WCF send and receive adapter, a BizTalk Patterns module (correlation, sequential convoy and parallel convoy) and optional EDI components. The course is targeted at beginning BizTalk developer or developers that want to bring their skills up to 2010.
Any question or discuss your BizTalk training needs please contact me
Are you planning on attending Microsoft’s WPC in Toronto starting on July 9th? If so, we would like to schedule a time to meet and discuss our partnership. Let’s schedule a time to meet at the connect tables.
QuickLearn is sponsoring a breakfast to thank our partners on Thursday, July 12th at 7:00AM prior to the keynote. The location has yet to be determined, depending on the number of RSVPs. However, we will make sure it is close to the convention center, has a great breakfast, and serves mimosas! Please join us! RSVP via Eventbrite.
Forget the questionable conference food, and join us for a real breakfast and mimosas to celebrate our partnership!
I have just come out a frustration moment with BizTalk where it was behaving differently when compared to a similar environment. I have a retry pattern in one of my orchestrations and a suspend shape within the catch block. See screenshot below: One would hope that when the administrator resubmits the suspended message, it would […]
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Blog Post by: Karl Schwirz
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Original Article: http://blog.biztalk360.com, Cross posted.
Note: This capability is added to our next release of BizTalk360 v5.0 due in 6 weeks time.
One of the design goals for BizTalk360 is to abstract the complexities of some of the hard core concepts in BizTalk Server. We wanted BizTalk environments to be managed, operated and administered by someone who got very basic BizTalk knowledge, not a real BizTalk expert.
In our experience only very few companies have dedicated BizTalk administrators. It may not be to feasible to have a dedicated BizTalk admin resource for various reasons like not enough work to keep the resource busy all the time, financial reason etc. In majority of the cases organisations choose to cross train either DBA’s or WinTel IT person to pick up some of the administrative BizTalk tasks.
For us here at BizTalk360, the goal is to provide both experienced and new BizTalk people (operators, administrators) sophisticated tooling to make their day-to-day life easier. We already addressed some of the challenges like graphical message flow viewer, fine grained authorization , graphical throttling analyser, Advanced Event Viewer etc. On the same theme the next big module is BizTalk backup-disaster recovery visualization.
SQL server especially the Message Box database is the heart of your BizTalk environment. All of your BizTalk servers in the group are typically state less and there is tons of logic in the SQL layer for the proper functioning of your BizTalk environment.
For that same reason, Microsoft wants to treat SQL server as a black box when it comes to BizTalk server, its property of Microsoft and you are not supposed to do any traditional database maintenance activities in the SQL server. BizTalk server comes out of the box with predefined back up jobs and clear procedure on how to configure log shipping, standby server and restore procedures. In fact this is the only supported way of doing backup and restore in BizTalk server. There are very good documentation in MSDN and couple of great articles my Nick Heppleston about BizTalk backup/DR.
At very high level this is his how it works
In order to make sure the backup, log shipping and standby restore activities working correctly, a BizTalk administrator or DBA need to perform various checks periodically. There are too many touch points they need to verify, which includes
All these steps just make BizTalk backup/log shipping/DR as an expert activity and it nearly impossible for a non-BizTalk person to understand all these things.
BizTalk360 solves all these challenges by providing a BizTalk backup/disaster recovery visualizer as shown in the below picture.
BizTalk360 understand the configuration and displays all the details in a simpler/graphical way. Let’s take a look at each section
You can expand the pane "Backup SQL Job configuration (Live Environment)", which will display your current backup job configuration in an easy to understand way. Behind the scene BizTalk360 parses the back up job configuration (all the job steps, parameters, schedule etc.) and present it in a nice UI.
The next stage shows the graphical representation of your LIVE/UNC/Standby setting clearly pointing how the environments are configured.
The live and standby environment clearly shows the health of important parameters like
Note: One of the SQL restore job is supposed to be in stopped state, it?s only enabled during the real disaster. BizTalk360 will understand that configuration and ignores that job while calculating the health.
On the UNC share box it shows the path, names assigned to full and log names in the backup job configuration.
As mentioned earlier it?s important to keep an eye on the backup/log shipping history records to see whether the back is working correctly and data/logs are restored correctly in the stand by environment. Some of the things to note
BizTalk360 with this single view represent your whole backup/disaster recovery setup and helps you to keep an eye on the health of your DR plan. The important thing to note here is, anyone without any prior BizTalk knowledge can understand the settings. Thanks to BizTalk360.
If you got any feedback please feel free to contact us, we want to make eveyone’s life easy.
Nandri
Saravana Kumar