All posts by : BizTalk 2006 - Windows SharePoint Services adapter

1 of 32 | WebDev.WebServer.exe does not start - Configuration system failed to initialize - I have Visual Studio 2005 with Service Pack 1 installed and I cannot debug any web service or web application. This worked for a while and then it stopped working. I researched this on a couple of sites and the suggested solutions were - Debug with F5 - Run with CTRL + F5  - copy WebDev.WebServer.exe from another machine if not present in .Net Framework folder - From .Net Framework folder run WebDev.WebServer.exe /PORT:8081 /PATH:"path to web app" - disable or open firewall port I tried all of these and it still failed with several errorsConfiguration system failed to initializeUnable to launch Visual Studio's Localhost Web Server. ASP.NET Development Server ......

2 of 32 | Is there a way to configure one send port to send a message to a document library based on a parameter? - This question comes up quite often that it deserves its own post. Is there a way to configure one send port to send a message to a variable destination based on a parameter? For instance when using WSS adapter, can you send a message to a different document library based on the message that's being processed? The answer is yes, it's possible to do this in two ways: using dynamic send ports, the destination URI and the configuration of the send port can be set programatically in the orchestration for every outgoing message. This method has the advantage that no ports have to be pre-created. using role-links and parties. For each party you need to pre-create and configure a pyshical send......

3 of 32 | BizTalk Server 2004 SP2 Beta is available - From my colleague Bill Ticehurst [MSFT]: Hi all, A beta release of Service Pack 2 for BizTalk Server 2004 is now available from the Connect site.  To obtain this beta perform the following steps: - Go to http://connect.microsoft.com/- Sign in with your Passport account  (you need to do this step for it to be visible)- Click on Available Connections- On the second table on the page you should see "BizTalk Server 2004 SP2 beta" If you download and install this service pack then feedback on any issues or problems encountered would be greatly appreciated (that's what beta is for right!).  The email address for feedback is bts4sp2f@microsoft.com . Positive feedback will also......

4 of 32 | %Filename% macro is not replaced with the disk filename - I've seen this issue showing a couple of times on the BizTalk Newsgroups so I thought it's worth posting about this on my blog. The user expectation, which is probably correct from usability point of view, is that the %Filename% macro is replaced with the name of the original file no matter if that file was received from the disk through FILE adapter or from a document library through SharePoint adapter. This doesn't happen like that since the WSS adapter send ports will resolve the %Filename% macro to empty string if the message was originally received from any other adapter than WSS adapter. This is by design. The %Filename% macro is replaced with the name of the SharePoin......

5 of 32 | Custom Pipeline Component for Processing DBF, Excel and other ODBC types - Matt Meleski implemented a custom pipeline component to process Excel or DBF files. I did not test this component myself but it seems that other people have tried and it worked well for them. This looks like a nice component that could complement the WSS adapter very nicely....

6 of 32 | WSS Adapter handling of InfoPath forms with attachments - InfoPath supports forms with file attachments by encoding the attachement as base64 and including the following PI <?mso-infoPath-file-attachment-present ?> at the top of the XML document to indicate that a file has been attached to the document. WSS adapter works with InfoPath forms with attachements by making sure that it does not add/remove/update any of the PIs that are related to file attachment. If the files are attached to the form in InfoPath then the PI should be there because InfoPath adds it. If the files are attached by your orchestration or some component other than InfoPath, then the orchestration/component needs to add the PI explicitly. The adapter cannot know i......

7 of 32 | WSS Adapter handling of InfoPath forms with attachments - InfoPath supports forms with file attachments by encoding the attachement as base64 and including the following PI <?mso-infoPath-file-attachment-present ?> at the top of the XML document to indicate that a file has been attached to the document. WSS adapter works with InfoPath forms with attachements by making sure that it does not add/remove/update any of the PIs that are related to file attachment. If the files are attached to the form in InfoPath then the PI should be there because InfoPath adds it. If the files are attached by your orchestration or some component other than InfoPath, then the orchestration/component needs to add the PI explicitly. The adapter cannot know i......

8 of 32 | WSS v3 Beta 2 is out - try it with WSS adapter - Windows SharePoint Services V3 Beta 2 is out and you can download it here. WSS v3 does not install a policy file that redirects old SharePoint assembly requests to the new assemblies. For this reason, if you try to use WSS v3 Beta 2 with BizTalk 2006 WSS adapter, you will run into errors. In order to workaround this problem and take WSS v3 Beta 2 for a test drive together with BizTalk 2006 WSS adapter, you will need to write your own policy file or just update the web.config file of the WSS adapter web service. Here's what you need to do: Open web.config from C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Business Activity Services\BTSharePointAdapterWS Paste the following section into......

9 of 32 | WSS v3 Beta 2 is out - try it with WSS adapter - Windows SharePoint Services V3 Beta 2 is out and you can download it here. WSS v3 does not install a policy file that redirects old SharePoint assembly requests to the new assemblies. For this reason, if you try to use WSS v3 Beta 2 with BizTalk 2006 WSS adapter, you will run into errors. In order to workaround this problem and take WSS v3 Beta 2 for a test drive together with BizTalk 2006 WSS adapter, you will need to write your own policy file or just update the web.config file of the WSS adapter web service. Here's what you need to do: Open web.config from C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Business Activity Services\BTSharePointAdapterWS Paste the following section into......

10 of 32 | BizTalk Server 2006 TechCenter has been launched - Yesterday, May 1st, we launched the BizTalk Server 2006 TechCenter (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/biztalk/). The TechCenter provides easy access to BizTalk Server 2006 technical documentation, downloads, and community, as well as to IT Pro favorites such as the Events & Errors Message Center. Each navigation page within the technical library includes quick access to search BizTalk Server newsgroups and knowledge-base articles as seen, for example, on the Getting Started page. Among many things, the site contains  Virtual labs The end-to-end tutorial as downloadable Word docs New content on Clustering BizTalk Server Links to the Installation Instructions ......

11 of 32 | WSS Adapter webcasts/videos - BizTalk 2006 RTMd last month, and the BizTalk Betaplace has been closed for a few weeks now. Many people have asked me for access to the WSS Adapter videos that were shared on the betaplace and finally, here they are. The videos are shared on this SharePoint site: http://wssadapter.members.winisp.net/default.aspx, in the Shared Documents document library, WSS Adapter Webcasts folder. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included videos are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm. Some of the content was developed for the BizTalk Beta builds, but it is still generally applicable to the RTM version. ...

12 of 32 | Parsing plain text messages/flat files received through POP3 adapter - Recently I received this question from one of our customers, unfortunately his email address was wrong and I couldn't reply directly to him. Before leaving to the BizTalk Shipping party ... yuuhuuu... I thought to try and provide an answer. See below a scrubbed version of the email I received I am trying to find someone to help me with few tips related to BizTalk 2006 and POP3 adapter - specifically parsing plain text messages as they are flat files. We are currently evaluating BizTalk 2006. Parsing of the plain text email messages containing for example orders as the body of the message is one of our tasks. Do you know of any good resource (blog, samples, ...) to recommend. I al......

13 of 32 | Upgrading from BT'04 GotDotNet WSS Adapter 1.0 to BT'06 native WSS Adapter - I finally found some time and tried upgrading from BizTalk 2004 and GotDotNet WSS adapter to BizTalk 2006 and the native BT'06 adapter for Windows SharePoint Services. The idea was to start from a BizTalk 2004 installation with version 1.0 of Steve Resnick & Co. WSS Adapter (http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=0d1aa85c-cf8d-497e-84f4-3ffec8db115f) , setup a simple messaging scenario using SharePoint, upgrade to BizTalk 2006, verify that messaging still works, upgrade to the native BizTalk 2006 WSS Adapter and then verify that messaging works with the new adapter. I followed the steps below, in order to create a sample messaging test for SharePoint: Created So......

14 of 32 | Upgrading from BT'04 GotDotNet WSS Adapter 1.0 to BT'06 native WSS Adapter - I finally found some time and tried upgrading from BizTalk 2004 and GotDotNet WSS adapter to BizTalk 2006 and the native BT'06 adapter for Windows SharePoint Services. The idea was to start from a BizTalk 2004 installation with version 1.0 of Steve Resnick & Co. WSS Adapter (http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=0d1aa85c-cf8d-497e-84f4-3ffec8db115f) , setup a simple messaging scenario using SharePoint, upgrade to BizTalk 2006, verify that messaging still works, upgrade to the native BizTalk 2006 WSS Adapter and then verify that messaging works with the new adapter. I followed the steps below, in order to create a sample messaging test for SharePoint: Created So......

15 of 32 | BizTalk Server 2006 has RTM'd - BizTalk Server 2006 has RTM'd today ... best BizTalk ever, shipped on time and a very high quality server product. See the announcement here. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,109944,00.htmlhttp://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=183702861 Of course, my favorite BT'06 features are are WSS Adapter, BAS and BAM ... because my colleagues and I worked on many of these features ... ;-) I've been working in BizTalk team for 4 years now, this is my second BizTalk release, and I really like the things that I do here. The product and the people are great, there are MANY great opportunities, the mix of technologies that we use or......

16 of 32 | BizTalk Server 2006 has RTM'd - BizTalk Server 2006 has RTM'd today ... best BizTalk ever, shipped on time and a very high quality server product. See the announcement here. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,109944,00.htmlhttp://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=183702861 Of course, my favorite BT'06 features are are WSS Adapter, BAS and BAM ... because my colleagues and I worked on many of these features ... ;-) I've been working in BizTalk team for 4 years now, this is my second BizTalk release, and I really like the things that I do here. The product and the people are great, there are MANY great opportunities, the mix of technologies that we use or......

17 of 32 | BizTalk Server product management team that has a new blog - Let's say welcome to the BizTalk Server product management team that has a new blog, with Mike Woods, Kris Horrocks, Steve Sloan, and Mark Berman contributing content every week. They’re ready to carry the momentum leading up to and after the ’06 release with great posts, so keep an eye on their blog. If you are new to BizTalk then take a look at 'BizTalk Beginner Training Roadmap'...

18 of 32 | Adding a row into a SharePoint List and adding an attachment to it - I recently got this email from a WSS Adapter user  ... I saw your 4 last web casts, it helped me a lot to get a good idea about thee WSS adapter.I have a question, Can you help me please and tell me how to add a row into SharePoint list and add an attachment to it? Where can I get more help about WSS adapter other then interrupt you? ... Unfortunately, the support for lists is not that rich in this release of the adapter. You can send messages to lists (create list row) but you cannot receive messages from lists or add attachments to a list item. It's very easy to add  a row to a SharePoint list using the WSS adapter. The problem is that the adapter does not support adding an......

19 of 32 | Adding Browse UI to BT'06 WSS adapter - The WssAdapterBrowseUI.dll modifies the default WSS Adapter UI so that instead of typing the names and URLs of SharePoint document libraries, lists, or columns you will be presented with a list view/tree view from where you can select the appropriate SharePoint object. The friendly names/titles of SharePoint objects are being shown but the UI is filled with the appropriate value (document library relative URL, document library title, column title, etc). This component does not validate that values entered manually are correct. Left image above is the original WSS UI included in BizTalk 2006. Right image above, is the modified WSS UI that includes browse SharePoint site functionality. The ......

20 of 32 | Problem when configuring WSS 2003 with SP2 to run on top of .Net Framework 1.1 and then upgrading to .Net Framework 2.0 - A few users have reported this configuration issue when trying to install and configure BizTalk 2006 with Windows SharePoint Services adapter. BizTalk 2006 native adapter for Windows SharePoint Services requires .Net Framework 2.0 but most of the users don't realize this until they try to configure the Windows SharePoint Services Adapter Web Service feature of BizTalk 2006. At that point, in many cases, Windows SharePoint Services has already been configured to run on top of .Net Framework 1.1 so the following error is visible in BizTalk configuration Web site is not configured to use .Net Framework 2.0 Changing the ASP.NET version on IIS site to be 2.0 instead of 1.1 causes Windows S......

21 of 32 | BizTalk Server 2006 Beta2 is out - What`s new in WSS Adapter - Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Beta2 is now available on Microsoft Beta Place. If you have not signed up already for BizTalk 2006 Beta program you can follow the instructions that I posted in this previous post in order to download the bits. If you have already signed up for BizTalk Beta 1 then you can just go to https://beta.microsoft.com, sign in with your account and download the latest BT 2006 beta. The setup/configuration is pretty much the same so you can follow the steps from my previous post but now you have to use the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 and Windows SharePoint Services 2003 with SP2. BizTalk 2006 Beta 2 is a production-ready build, and of course upgrade from Beta 2 to......

22 of 32 | New WSS Adapter videos are available on the Microsoft Beta site, BizTalk Server 2006 program - Hi folks,Sorry for the long delay since my last post, I just got back from a 3 weeks vacation. My parents visited US for the first time and I took some time off to show them how wonderful Puget Sound is. Originally, I am from Romania but I moved here 5 years ago and this was their first visit. When I got back from vacation I had the surprise to see that the new WSS Adapter demos that I recorded before going on vacation have been approved and posted online on the BizTalk Beta Place, so here they are ... WSSAdapter-SetupAndConfig-Short.wmv (9.58 MB) - Windows SharePoint Services 2003 with SP2 and BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 setup and configuration WSSAdapter-SendReceiveCBR.wmv (10.25 MB) - ba......

23 of 32 | Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 has been released - Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 has been released last week on September 27. You can download the SP2 here . You can download the full version of Windows SharePoint Services with SP2 integrated (slipstream) from here . From my perspective, most interesting features added by this service pack are: - Whidbey (.Net Framework 2.0) support: both side-by-side with .Net Framework 1.1 and also support for running against Whidbey - Support for 64 bit - WSS with SP2 can run in 32-bit emulation mode on a 64-bit machine Information for BizTalk 2006 Beta 1 UsersWSS adapter and BAS included with BizTalk Beta 1 require the preview build of WSS SP2 which has been made available throug......

24 of 32 | WSS Adapter webcast recording is now available on Microsoft Betaplace - I mentioned before that I`ll be doing a webcast on the Windows SharePoint Services native adapter included in BizTalk 2006 (see SeptemberWSSAdapterWebcast). The "BTS 2006 Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Adapter Deep Dive" webcast is now available on the Microsoft Beta Place http://beta.microsoft.com/ , Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, under the Additional File Downloads section. If you haven`t signed-up already in the BizTalk 2006 Beta program, then go to bts2006beta to see the instructions....

25 of 32 | "I cannot access the MSMQC adapter properties in an orchestration" issue - Recently, somebody asked me how to access the MSMQ label from BizTalk, in order to access some information that is passed by its own C# application through the MSMQ label.See issue described below.----------------------------------Below I give my problem, Please give me a good solution for me.I have a C# application. It has an upload page. If user uploads a XML file,the C# application reads it and send this to MSMQ as a Message.The code is below. StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(Path); string str; str = sr.ReadToEnd(); System.Messaging.Message mm = new System.Messaging.Message(); mm.Formatter = new ActiveXMessageFormatter(); mm.Body = str.ToString(); mm.Label = UserID; mq.Send(mm); I crea......

26 of 32 | WSS, POP3, SMTP adapters webcasts - I will be holding a WSS Adapter Deep Dive webcast on September 14. Before that, on September 8, Erik Leaseburg will hold a POP3 and SMTP adapters webcast.See below anouncement from Doug Girard forwarded to BizTalk Beta testers. Beta testers, You`re all invited to a webcast this Thursday courtesy of the Technology Adoption Programs team and Erik Leaseburg.  Here are the details: BizTalk Server 2006 Adapters, with a focus on POP3 and SMTP (Erik Leaseburg)September 8, 2005 8:00 AM PDT WEBCAST: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/joinid=2GXPF2&role=attend&pw=42XXC AUDIO: Toll Free Number: 1-866-500-6738, Participant Passcode: 185691 The subsequent webcast will be: WSS Adapter Deep Di......

27 of 32 | Microsoft rolled out 30 free, downloadable applications for Windows SharePoint Services - Microsoft rolled out 30 free, downloadable applications that build on top of the company`s SharePoint Services collaboration/workflow technology that is built into Windows Server.Among the plethora new applications are horizontal and vertical applets both. Schedule-management, consumer-financing, employee-training, event-management, travel-request, classroom-management, campaign-management and other similar types of offerings are available immediately. See full article here http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0%2C2180%2C1843542%2C00.aspDownload SharePoint apps http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/wssapps/default.mspx  ...

28 of 32 | BizTalk 2006 Beta 1 - Download, setup, configuration - This Tuesday I have subscribed to the Microsoft BizTalk 2006 Beta program and today (Thursday) I have finally received the email with the approval allowing me to download and play with the bits. In this post I will walk you through my experience downloading the bits, running setup and configuration for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and BizTalk 2006 Beta 1 in order to play with the native WSS Adapter. This post will focus on a single machine deployment scenario but I will also point out separately what you need to know when performing a distributed deployment. Download Windows SharePoint Services 2003 with SP1 In order to play with WSS adapter you will have to download and install Windows......

29 of 32 | My Wss Adapter blog/tools To Do list - Here are some of the things that I am would like to cover in this blog in the future. These are just some of the ideas that I have, I do not guarantee that I will get to all of them, or any of them for that matter, but I`ll do my best to get to at least some of them.1 - Complete Wss Adapter tutorials 1 through 3 - I will complete the tutorials and I will comment each of the steps explaining why each particular step is needed. Normally, this info should be already in the tutorial, but since this is a beta, the documentation does not have this information. I will also make the completed tutorials available for download.2 - Detailed comparison of native WSS Adapter and GotDotNet adapters  - Th......

30 of 32 | Wss Adapter questions - These are some of the questions raised by early users of the WSS adapter. I assumed that people didn`t want to see their names listed here, so I took the liberty and removed all the names and also rephrased some of the questions. Q: What are the differences between the WSS adapter in 2006 which is available out of the box, and the WSS adapter for 2004 which could be downloaded from gotdotnetA: See my previous blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/ahamza/archive/2005/07/27/443823.aspx At some point I will follow up in the blog with a detailed comparison of each feature. Q: Can you use WSS adapter to archive Word/Excel docs contained in a SharePoint document librariesA: Yes, the new WSS Adapter ca......

31 of 32 | BizTalk 2006 native WSS Adapter vs GotDotNet WSS Adapter - Features Overview - BizTalk 2006 native adapter for Windows SharePoint Services versus GotDotNet Windows SharePoint Services adapter, which one should you use In my previous post, I have mentioned the shared source WSS Adapter available on GotDotNet and the fact that Microsoft has included a similar adapter in BizTalk 2006. So which one should you use Well.the BizTalk native adapter if you ask me. But if you want to decide for yourself then look at the table below that compares the two adapters.  I highlighted the better adapter capabilities using bold. I will follow up with a later post to detail each of these feature comparisons and why I have considered one adapter or the other to have a better implementati......

32 of 32 | BizTalk 2006 Beta1 has been released - Well folks, its here no, not my blog ... BizTalk 2006 Beta1 has been released (see http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/bts2006beta.mspx ) and soon we should hear the verdict from the customers. I have been working at Microsoft for the last 5 years (almost), the last 3.5 years as a developer on BizTalk. I was part of the team that shipped BizTalk 2004 and I really liked the product, especially the design and the flexibility that came with it. That being said, BizTalk 2006 is going to be sooooo much better. Microsoft really listens to customers feedback and this should be visible in BizTalk 2006. But Im going to stop here and let you judge it for yourself or otherwise some people wil......