BizTalk 2006 R2

1 of 148 | Using WCF-Custom Bindings in Dynamic Ports - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] BizTalk 2006 R2 ships with WCF adapters and pre-configured settings for common bindings - basicHttp and wsHttp being typically used for SOAP messaging. With a static port you can use the WCF-Custom adapter, select an existing binding and configure it further in the UI, with the full set of binding options available to you: Here I'm using basicHttp, but I've configured the maxReceivedMessageSize, sendTimeout and transferMode settings to allow us to call long-running WCF services which return large responses. In a dynamic port, you're limited to the settings you can configure, as the WCF Adapter Property Schema doesn't contain the......

2 of 148 | First Stab at Using New Tool to Migrate SQL Server Adapter Solutions - If you saw the recent announcement about the Adapter Pack 2.0 release, you may have seen the short reference to a tool that migrates “classic” SQL Adapter solutions to the new WCF SQL Adapter.  This tool claims to: Works on the source project files Generates equivalent schema definitions for the operations used in the existing project Generates new maps to convert messages from older formats to the new format Modifies any existing maps to work with the new schemas A new project is created upon completion, which uses the SQL adapters from the BizTalk Adapter Pack v2 Given how much “migration pain” can be a big reason that old projects never get upgraded, I thought I’d run a quick test and......

3 of 148 | Microsoft ESB Guidance installation - I just installed Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus Guidance framework (November 2007 version for BizTalk 2006 R2). Although lengthy installation process is well documented in the accompanying help file I ran into multiple issues and it took a couple of days to sort everything out. I'd like to mention here major problems/solutions in case somebody decides to go through the same. First, if you install on other than default location (C:/%PROGRAM_FILES% and C:/Projects) make sure to update all scripts and command files as well as bindings. Second, I had issue with UDDI service configuration. It wouldn't install until I enabled NTLM authentication for IIS. It is done by executing IIS utility scri......

4 of 148 | Calling a webservice with primitive types - The other day, I encountered a problem/feature in BizTalk 2006 R2 concerning calling a webservice, which methods only have primitive types, without using an orchestration. A webservice with a complextype as an argument, results in xsd being generated by the webservice proxy generator. With primitive types, no xsd is generated. As a result, no mapping can be used in sending messages out. Remember, the sample uses only CBR on send/receiveport names, every send/receive is done through the passthrough pipelines. Later, I will publish a solution for this! Please come back later... ...

5 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 EDI Gotcha: Sending 997s in Response to Received 997s - I was seeing a weird behavior where I thought BizTalk 2006 R2 was sending a 997 in response to a received 997. The real reason was because I had a send port filter that looked like the following: You'll notice that I'm subscribing to a receive...(read more)...

6 of 148 | Adapters Supported By BizTalk 2006 R2 - A handy table that lists the versions as well - I've always needed something like this when doing proposals :-)   Adapter Supported Editions BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 ---- SAP SAP R/3 4.x, R/3 6.20 (Enterprise), and SAP ECC 6.0 PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Versions 8.17.02, 8.43, 8.45, 8.46, 8.47, 8.48, and 9.0 JD Edwards OneWorld XE 8.10, and 8.11, and 8.12 with Tools Release 8.93, 8.94, 8.95 and 8.96 JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.10, and 8.11, and 8.12 with Tools Release 8.93, 8.94, 8.95 and 8.96 ......

7 of 148 | Reconfigure BizTalk with MsBuild - The other day I was having an issue with our build server so I decided to write a script to reconfigure BizTalk on our build or development servers. My plan was to run this regularly on a scheduled basis to ensure our build servers were kept clean. I thought id write a little about this as it may be useful to others. Note the script is aimed at a single machine hosting BizTalk 2006 R2 and SQL Server. Before I started I exported the configuration of our BizTalk Group to a file and then amended the credentials etc. The list of tasks I would perform to clean and reconfigure our server is as follows: TaskDescription Delete log fileWhen I run the BizTalk Configuration tool from the comman......

8 of 148 | Indentify BizTalk Version and Edition - Here is how you can find out the edition: Enterprise/Standard/Branch  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0 and the key ProductEdition. This should tell you if it is Enterprise/Standard or Branch....  Here is a simple way to determine the version of BizTalk Server: open BizTalkDBVersion Table from BizTalk Management database.. Do not change any values here as the supportability clause comes into picture....     Version(Minor + Major) Comments BizTalk 2009 3.7   BizTalk 2006 R2 3.6   BizTalk 2006 RTM 3.5   BizTalk 2004 SP2 3.2 If table exists ('admv__BackupDatabases') BizTalk 2004 SP1......

9 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification - In a recent internal discussion I was enlightened to the fact that there is a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 certification exam available.  This exam is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx , so get going and be one of the first to get your BizTalk certification updated....(read more)...

10 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Exam available - 70-241 - Certification for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is available, at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx.  Apparently it came out last October.....anyone done it? let's go there! I'll post back shortly and let you know how I went.... :) Exam details... Overview This exam is intended for candidates developing business solutions using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Audience Profile A candidate for this exam will have experience developing, deploying, and testing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 solutions across multiple real-world projects.  The candidate should have a solid understanding of fundamental BizTalk concepts and familiarit......

11 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 X12 EDI Batching - I had a requirement to extract several thousand rows of X12 data from a back end database and package them up once a month into X12 EDI with a max of 5000 rows per Transaction Set and maximum 4 Transaction Sets per file. I found that there was no out...(read more)...

12 of 148 | Tempo di stop elevato per le Host Instances a 64-bit di BizTalk 2006 - Stavolta scrivo questo post per ricordarmelo, visto che ogni volta che reinstallo la macchina devo andare a ricercare l’informazione! :) Dopo l’installazione del Security Bulletin MS07-40 su un server a 64-bit con BizTalk 2006 (R2), si possono riscontrare alti utilizzi della CPU da parte degli host di BizTalk, oltre che una lentezza enorme durante lo stop delle host instances (anche 60 secondi). Per risolvere la cosa, occorre installare una fix come descritto in questo articolo della KB. Da qualche tempo, oltretutto, le fix di questo tipo sono scaricabili direttamente dalla pagina della KB, seguendo un link all’inizio della pagina....

13 of 148 | Calling a service with federated identity from BizTalk Server [2009] – Part I - Finally I’ve reached the point where I’m ready to hook up BizTalk to my STS implementation to participate in a federated identity scenario. My goal is to confirm two scenarios - 1. Being able to call from a BizTalk process a service that uses the ws2007FederationHttpBinding (and requires that the caller provide a token issued by a specific STS) 2. Being able to expose a service in BizTalk that would use the ws2007FederationHttpBinding requiring the caller to provide such token. If you followed my previous posts you would probably know that I already have a fairly extensive federated identity scenario – I have a custom STS built using the Geneva Framework, a few web sites and a test WC......

14 of 148 | Calling a service with federated identity from BizTalk Server [2009] – Part I - Finally I’ve reached the point where I’m ready to hook up BizTalk to my STS implementation to participate in a federated identity scenario. My goal is to confirm two scenarios - 1. Being able to call from a BizTalk process a service that uses the ws2007FederationHttpBinding (and requires that the caller provide a token issued by a specific STS) 2. Being able to expose a service in BizTalk that would use the ws2007FederationHttpBinding requiring the caller to provide such token. If you followed my previous posts you would probably know that I already have a fairly extensive federated identity scenario – I have a custom STS built using the Geneva Framework, a few web sites and a test WC......

15 of 148 | Difference in whitespace preservation in maps between BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 - This is a very irritating issue which has taken me about two days to chase down - and all thanks to an apparently undocumented change between BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 According to the documentation at MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa561674.aspx), BizTalk maps should not preserve whitespace. However, after a recent upgrade from 2006 to 2006 R2 our test platform started rejecting records which it had previously processed without complaint.  Initial analysis showed that it had suddenly started preserving whitespace in maps. For example, in BizTalk 2006 (non-R2) when the element Field in the following XML: <ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalk_Server_Project2.s......

16 of 148 | Orchestration Designer Crash - I recently encountered a troubling problem while creating a BizTalk 2006 R2 solution. Everything was working fine until I tried to open the Orchestration Designer to edit one of the orchestrations I had been working of for a couple of days. Visual Studio...(read more)...

17 of 148 | A Quick Walkthrough of the BizTalk 2006 R2 Upgrade to BizTalk 2009 - Originally posted by Nick Heppleston at: http://www.modhul.com/2009/01/04/upgrading-biztalk-server-2006-r2-to-biztalk-server-2009/ In this post, I’ll quickly walk through upgrading a production BizTalk 2006 R2 installation to the latest BizTalk...(read more)...

18 of 148 | Happy New Year BizTalk-ers! - Just a quick post to say Happy New Year to all of the BizTalk community. I was planning on writing about the BizTalk 2006 R2 to 2009 upgrade experience, but I managed to forget my external drive so I can’t start the VM… instead you’ll...(read more)...

19 of 148 | Biztalk Pipeline and File System Transaction (TxF) -   With Vista and Windows Server 2008 comes and new amazing feature: the possibility to include file system operations into a transaction. The functionnality is implemented as the Kernel Transaction Manager (KTM).   Requirements: Biztalk must be installed on a Vista box or Windows Server 2008 (which is not supported afaik).   I had to implement this functionnality inside in a pipeline component in a Biztalk 2006 R2 solution . I started with the wrapper provided on Codeplex and it did not worked as expected. As I have spent a bit of time on that problem and I have not found the information anywhere, here is how I solve the case.    I have found several blogs discussing about it but ne......

20 of 148 | Developing Integration Solutions with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Here is some good news for veteran BizTalk developers & architects.Remember the whitepaper: Developing Integration Solutions with BizTalk Server 2004 ? I used to recommend it to any organization embarking on their first BizTalk project. It contained an approach for the major part of the Application Life Cycle Management for BizTalk Server 2004. Well, recently Dennis Mulder, a senior consultant with MCS has updated this document to BizTalk 2006 R2 titled: Developing Integration Solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 and Team Foundation ServerCheck out the newly updated document that provides techniques and best practices for designing, developing, and deploying solutions within Microsoft......

21 of 148 | First Look at BizTalk 2009 Build and Developer Experience - We had a very useful brown bag session with the BizTalk Product Team this week and went through some of the new developer improvements. Fortunately not much of this was under NDA so I thought id share some of what I learnt and my thoughts on this. Ill just keep this in the simple format below: BizTalk Project Files are now MsBuild A new BizTalk project file is basically an extension of a C# project file. It looks very similar to a normal MsBuild based project file see the Picture below.   From this picture you can see lots of familiar stuff. You can see from the following picture from the project file that a BizTalk project file imports the C# MsBuild targets as well as some new ......

22 of 148 | BizTalk Testing Series – Testing Maps in BizTalk 2009 - A while back in my series of articles about testing with BizTalk I covered a technique for testing maps. The background to the approach is still valid in BizTalk 2009, but the technique is improved. To review the previous article refer to the following link: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/03/30/120851.aspx In this post although we could do testing of maps, to be honest it was a little bit of a pain. In the newly released BizTalk 2009 CTP there have been some improvements in how you can do some of the testing and I would like to demonstrate this. I will walk through the steps to test your schema. I will extend on the sample from the previous post about testi......

23 of 148 | BizTalk Testing Series – Testing Schema in BizTalk 2009 - A while back in my series of articles about testing with BizTalk I covered a technique for testing schema. The background to the approach is still valid in BizTalk 2009, but the technique is improved. To review the previous article refer to the following link: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/03/30/120850.aspx In the newly released BizTalk 2009 CTP there have been some improvements in how you can do some of the testing and I would like to demonstrate this. I will walk through the steps to test your schema. Before I go into the details, we start with a simple project with two projects. The first is a BizTalk project with a schema and the second is a C# test pr......

24 of 148 | BizTalk Deployments with PowerShell - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] As part of my first look at ESB Guidance 2.0 (which has some excellent enhancements which I'll post about shortly) I've been interested in the way the sample solutions are deployed. The P&P team have put together PowerShell scripts which take care of the usual things you'd find in a deployment scenario – stopping services, creating applications, adding resources and bindings. In a Continuous Integration environment, you'd typically want to deploy to a BizTalk instance as part of the build process, to ensure the application configuration is valid, and as a prerequisite for running unit and integration tests. Currently I do this with ......

25 of 148 | Troubleshooting BizTalk Server Soap Adapter Whitepaper Released - Today the BizTalk Adapter Development team announced a new whitepaper on troubleshooting the BizTalk Server Soap adapter in BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 (although a lot of if not all still applies to BizTalk 2004). The download link is here. The whitepaper...(read more)...

26 of 148 | Calling a service without adding a reference in BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 - We’ve been experimenting with calling ASMX web services from orchestrations without having to add a web reference (for the SOAP adapter) or use the generated items (for the R2 WCF adapter). The idea, in short, is to achieve increased decoupling between systems even in a web service scenario - Generally when you add a reference to a service in BizTalk 2006 or in R2 (although there are some clear differences between the implementation) the schemas for the request and response types are generated for you as well as an orchestration which defines message and port types using those schemas. When using the SOAP adapter the types generated are somewhat “special” and they encapsulate a little bi......

27 of 148 | BTSUG - Nov26th, BizTalk 'Cloud Services'- BizTalk in the Cloud. - BizTalk ‘Cloud’ Services – BizTalk in the Cloud With recent developments and BizTalk 2009 on the horizon, I thought we’d look at just what all these ‘cloud services’ mean and understand the term ‘cloud computing’ What’s cooking this month for the group? This month we have Scott Scovell (BizTalk Virtual TS) presenting on a very exciting new shift in computing – Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. You might be thinking – “What does this do for me?” Well....(far too much for me dictate here)...but imagine if you can: -       Connect seamlessly between clients and yourself (including firewalls etc) -       Swi......

28 of 148 | Performance tuning - A perfect collection of all BizTalk 2006 R2 performance tuning documents: http://intltechventures.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-11-01-saturday-biztalk-2006-r2.html. Keep this URL in mind!! ...

29 of 148 | ESB Guidance Demonstration: “TriathlonResults” - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] At the SBUG meeting last week, my session on "ESB Guidance: A Real-World Implementation" was meant to end with a demonstration, but we ran out of time - and in any case what I'd intended to show was probably a bit ambitious, with plenty of this-is-bound-to-go-wrong points. But I've spent some time making it more solid and the code is available now on MSDN Code Gallery: ESB Guidance 1.0 Demonstration: TriathlonResults, if you want to have a look. You'll need an environment with BizTalk 2006 R2 and ESB Guidance 1.0 set up to run it, but I'm looking at putting together a Webcast to give a walkthrough. Overview The demonstration invo......

30 of 148 | BTSUG: Oct 29th - Building InfoPath, SharePoint and BizTalk Solutions - InfoPath 2007, SharePoint 2007 + BizTalk 2006 R2!! Aloha!!! With PDC currently on over in the US we’re going to be sinking our teeth into some great material this month. We’ve had some great discussions this month on our BizTalk Discussions email list (email me if you want to get on it) – we’ve got around 50 BizTalk User group members extending out to the US (New York) as well. Email me if you want to get on – it’s currently invite only. What’s cooking this month for the group? I will focus on 3 main key players this month – InfoPath 2007, SharePoint 2007 + BizTalk 2006 R2!! I’ve had a lot of requests on how to do this and the best way to marry all these players up at ......

31 of 148 | How to expose an old style WSDL with the schema's included from BizTalk 2006 R2 with a WCF adapter - It is really nice to have WCF around. With WCF you are ready for the future. Unfortunaltely this is only true in a Microsoft landscape. The new style WSDL with the schema's no longer included is one of those enhancements that should be really nice. Unfortunately there are tons of software out there that cannot handle the default WSDL behaviour of a WCF service. Below is a picture of the default WSDL behaviour. And this is not the behavoiur old clients like. So we have to modify the WSDL that's...(read more)...

32 of 148 | Central Florida BizTalk User Group [Meeting in Tampa] - Central Florida BizTalk User Group [Meeting in Tampa] Wednesday, October 1st, 6:30 PM at Tampa Microsoft Office Central Florida BTUG is an independent, non-commercial user group focused on Microsoft’s BizTalk 2006 R2 and related technologies such as RFID, SOA, Windows Communication Foundation, and other divisions of connected systems. Targeted audience includes technologists at all levels including developers, architects, users, and decision makers. The user group will hold bi-monthly meetings delivered by technology experts in the field. Meetings will be located at the Tampa Microsoft Gulf States Office at 5426 Bay Center Dr Suite 700 Tampa, FL 33609. Future meetings may also be held......

33 of 148 | /dev/null Adapter on GitHub - I’ve just uploaded the source code for my old /dev/null BizTalk Adapter sample on GitHub, which is where I’m posting all my utilities, libraries and tools now. The repository contains both the original version of the adapter, as well as the special BizTalk 2006 R2 version I did that showed how to use create custom configuration dialogs for adapters in R2. The original version is in the ‘master’ branch, while the R2 version is in the ‘R2’ branch. Enjoy. ...

34 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification (70-241) - Recently to I have been to Redmond to participate in BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification exam (70-241) development. It was wonderful experience being at Microsoft and working with the fellow BizTalkers. Microsoft has greatly improved the exam development process. The questions will go through several stages to make sure they meet the product objectives and technical accuracy without any ambiguities in the answers. Also it's more closer to what we do with the product in day-to-day development as SMEs from the industry involve in this process. Overall, for every BizTalker its a worth writing exam to get to know more about the product capabilities and making sure that they are product technol......

35 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Pre-requisites CAB Files - With many thanks to Sanket for posting this information originally, I wanted to post these links here so that the next time I can save my self the Google search and just hit this post. These links are for the EN language, but there's a link at the...(read more)...

36 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 + R2 Performance and Optimisation Paper - Folks - I recently came across a great article on Perf in BizTalk. I had previous noted a BTS2004 one but always handy to have the updated version. I thought I'd jot this down before I lost the reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc558617.aspx Enjoy, Mick. ...

37 of 148 | Upgrading BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 - New EDI components not available - An issue that I recently came across was when we upgraded our servers from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 is that we were unable to see the new EDI features. This is the context menu I saw when right clicking the parties: Which is incorrect, I should...(read more)...

38 of 148 | Death of the BizTalk JDE Adapter? - I have recently had to investigate integrating BizTalk 2006 R2 to JD Edwards version 8.12 (latest version). My first thought was to use the BizTalk JDE Adapter. I enquired about it on the BizTalk MSDN forums and also on a mailing list we have between...(read more)...

39 of 148 | Odds and Ends - A couple things to share on this glorious Wednesday.  First, one of our BizTalk developers came across an odd scenario, and I just learned that everyone’s favorite Dahan (Yossi Dahan) wrote about it a couple years ago.  Our issue was that an orchestration needed to consume a service with a multi-part input, but the complex type parameter wouldn’t show up as message for mapping.  After a quick poke around, I see that Yossi explained how multi-part messages that have a mix of complex parts and simple type parts cannot be used in a map.  I tried it out, and sure enough, if you create a multi-part orchestration message that does not have all parts set as schema types, then that message isn’t a......

40 of 148 | Odds and Ends - A couple things to share on this glorious Wednesday.  First, one of our BizTalk developers came across an odd scenario, and I just learned that everyone’s favorite Dahan (Yossi Dahan) wrote about it a couple years ago.  Our issue was that an orchestration needed to consume a service with a multi-part input, but the complex type parameter wouldn’t show up as message for mapping.  After a quick poke around, I see that Yossi explained how multi-part messages that have a mix of complex parts and simple type parts cannot be used in a map.  I tried it out, and sure enough, if you create a multi-part orchestration message that does not have all parts set as schema types, then that message isn’t a......

41 of 148 | Upgrading to BizTalk 2006 R2 Experience - On one of the projects im associated with we have recently upgraded from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 for our next release. In doing this we needed to upgrade our development environment and a number of testing environments.  Fortunately the testing envronments are not managed by our team so we didnt need to have too much involvement in this other than providing guidance and support. In the development environment we needed to upgrade a number of developer machines and also some build servers.  We also needed to support some cycles of testing which were still happening on the non R2 machines. Two things which you might want to consider if you are doing the same is as follows: 1. The ......

42 of 148 | BizTalk Namespace Issue - Here is a little gem that I have come across recently...  I have only confirmed this in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you create a receive shape with a filter expression of (BTS.Operation=="somevalue") and your namespace contains BTS. then you will get a build failure similar to: The type or namespace name 'Operation' does not exist in the namespace 'Spike.BTS' (are you missing an assembly reference?) It appears that during compilation it is trying to resolve the BTS.Operation in the project assembly.  I was surprised by this one and have created several projects in the past with BTS. in the namespace without encountering an issue. To illustrate, I created a proje......

43 of 148 | Working with Global Parties - AS2, EDI 'stuff' - I was recently working on a AS2/EDI project using BizTalk 2006 R2 and came across an interesting question: How do I create 500+ parties? and with the AS2 Properties included (or even HL7 for that matter) After a little digging - there is the BizTalk.ExplorerOM that we could drill into and create the parties through code. However, there's a more hands off approach....using Bindings!!!! (1) Export Bindings from an existing setup including Parties!!! to an xml file. (2) Modify the XML file - particularly the Party information. (3) Import Bindings back into your new environment. There's a great blog post by the BizTalk Team on this subject a while back -......

44 of 148 | Biztalk Host Instances not starting - Our production BIZTALK 2006 R2 machine was restarted today but the Biztalk Host Instance services did not start automatically.  There was an Event in the Systems Log that stated: The Enterprise Single Sign-On Service service hung on starting When I looked the SSO was started.  From prior experiences this tells me that the service depends on another service but the registry did not contain that service. I'm assuming that SSO depends on MSDTC because the SSO db is on another machine.  So I added MSDTC as a dependent service. Here's a post of a similar problem and solution: http://www.mombu.com/microsoft/biztalk-server/t-sso-hung-on-starting-468886.html ...

45 of 148 | New BizTalk Performance, WCF Whitepapers - I was looking for a particular download today on the Microsoft site, and came across a couple of new whitepapers.  Check out the Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide which 220+ pages of performance factors, analytic tools, planning/preparing/executing a performance assessment, identifying bottlenecks, how to test, and optimizing operating system / network / database  level settings. Also check out the new whitepaper on BizTalk 2006 R2 integration with WCF.  This is a different paper than Aaron’s WCF adapter paper from last year. And not sure if you’ve seen this, but the BizTalk support engineers are blogging now and chat about orchestration performance and other topics.  ......

46 of 148 | BizTalk and Systems Center: Operations Manager w/ BizTalk Management Pack - The BizTalk 2006 R2 Management Pack is a rewrite from the original pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM). It is designed around all of the new features of BizTalk 2006 R2 including RFID and EDI. The pack ties into SCOM very nicely and once...(read more)...

47 of 148 | Tracking EDI Control Numbers in R2 EDISend Pipelines - After months of working on Biztalk 2006 R2 EDI tracking I'm still not sure how the inbound EDI 997s are correlated to outbound EDI transactions.  I need to track certain message properties in the outgoing EDI transactions.  For some reason one of our trading partners is not sending 997s for all of the EDI messages we transmit.  But I can query their system and see that the transactions were received.  So my problem is now finding the outbound EDI messages and somehow resolving the open status. Using HAT I can see certain EDI message properties are created in the EDI assemble pipeline component.  These properties are <Property Name="InterchangeControlNo" Namespace="http://schemas.mic......

48 of 148 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Downgrade - Downgrading from BizTalk 2006 R2 to plain 2006 doesn't seem to be a well-trodden path. It's not ideal, but if you have to do it, the following steps should get you there: Uninstall BizTalk 2006 R2 from Add/Remove programs Try to uninstall Enterprise SSO from Add/Remove programs* Remove the BizTalk databases (detach the databases in SQL Server, then remove the MDF and LDF files) Delete all the BizTalk-related SQL Server Agent jobs Unregister the Notification Service for BAM Alerts Install & Configure BizTalk 2006 * - I had issues with SSO where the uninstall kept crashing halfway through. Eventually removed it by selecting "modify" then removing ......

49 of 148 | Learnings with the BizTalk Adapter Pack and SAP - Recently I had the opportunity to get some hands on experience using the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 (BAP) and I thought I'd dust off my blog and share some of my takeaways. If you are unfamiliar with the BAP, it consists of a set of WCF-based LOB Adapters/Bindings for: mySAP Business Suite Siebel eBusiness Applications Oracle Database While the BAP falls under the BizTalk brand (and is included with recent purchases of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or Software Assurance), the BAP is also available as a separate stand-alone product. This is cool because as these adapters are packaged as WCF bindings you can leverage them as a part of your "vanilla" .NET 3.0 projects. Just i......

50 of 148 | Magenic Technology Summit - June 20, 2008 - The Magenic Technology Council (MTC) is proud to present the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008.  This two-track, 1 day summit is packed with great sessions and TWO keynotes from Rocky Lhotka (Magenic, creator of CSLA) and Jay Schmelzer (Microsoft, Visual Studio Group PM.) In the Developer track, members of the MTC will present on Writing Better Code, the ASP.NET MVC framework, LINQ indexing techniques, WPF and Silverlight in UX design.  The Server track offers sessions on SharePoint branding, SQL Server 2005 health, TFS, and RFID with BizTalk 2006 R2. If you're anything like me, it's going to be tough deciding which sessions to hit. Make sure to bring a collea......