BizTalk Core Engine's WebLog

Howdy everyone, So first off, I should probably say that my posts might be a bit more far and few between (not that they are all that often as it stands :). A long time co-worker, Kartik, will probably be manning the ship on the blog as I have decided...

Okay, so some people noticed that I deleted pretty much all of the content from an earlier post on DR because, well, it was no longer valid. Most of it was sample scripts that were now replaced by supported shipping versions of those scripts. However...

This question has come up a lot in internal and external discussions. It got to the point where we had to put out a KB article as so many DBAs out there thought that it was okay to go and "tweak" the settings ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912262/en...

A co-worker of mine, Vishal, has posted on GotDotNet a new utility which enables customers to take the archives of their tracking database and stitch them together into a single, large database. http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx...

So it has been a while. In the mean time, WE SHPPED!!!! It is such a great feeling. I have been on this team for almost 7 years now and this release is defnitely the best (one would of course hope that every release is better than the previous but you...

Hi all. Hope everyone watched as the Seahawks pummelled the Carolina Panthers yesterday. For our remote team members out in Charlotte ... ouch ... 6 total yards in the first quarter ... ouch (I know it hurt Brian :). However, on a positive note, the Biztalk...

Since I have seen enough questions on this, I will officially post here about it (and we might have a KB Article on it ... not sure how that works for BETAs though). There is a new sql agent job you will find on the messagebox database server called ManageMessageRefCountLog_<messagebox>...

Hi all. I am still here. Just get a bit busy and disappear for a while. :) :) So one of the cool things in Pathfinder is some updated backup and restore features. It is still based around the same log shipping story, but we have automated almost all of...

Have you ever wanted to speak to Microsoft developers of a specific feature of BizTalk Server? I am sure your answer was “ Yes let me at them ”, so the Business Process Integration Division is extending an invitation to all customers to join our key feature...

I am removing this post as it is no longer needed. With SP2 for 2004 public now, we have backported the Backup / Restore work from 2006 which includes scripts for automating the recovery of the system after a failure (which is what I had posted here)...

Okay, peridiodically the marketing team / other teams ask me to post things to make sure the word is getting out about events. My guess is that all of you are reading scott woodgate's blog (see my links) and if you are not you should, so these will probably...

So now that Jean is posting, this blog should get pretty interesting. Jean is the man, behind the man, behind the man. :) On the current BizTalk team he is about employee number 5 or so which makes him a true wealth of knowledge and I have been working...

The large message support story in BizTalk Server 2004 is a complex one, mainly because the definition of large message varies significantly. This, in turn, is complicated by the fact that our customers expect everything to work with all of the possible...

Hi, Lee's been trying for a while now to get more of us to post our knowledge to the blog, so here I am. My name is Jean-Emile Elien, and I work on the BizTalk Messaging Runtime along with Lee. I've been keeping notes on a couple of topics that I have...

Just want to let everyone know that it is out and it is goodness. Woodgate has posted links to it as well as some information on where to download the .Net Framework GDR on which we have a dependency just in case you miss it in our docs. Check out his...

Okay, I disappeared for a while. There is this crazy thing called "work" which my bosses (for those of you who are confused, Scott Woodgate is not my boss :) seem to think I need to do sometimes. Some positive news is that BizTalk 2004 SP1 should be released...

Kevin Lam has decided to start his own blog. He's been on the team for a while now and is one of the product team's frontline guys. He is the guy out there working with the big customers, helping with their designs, getting there stuff into our labs,...

Okay, GotDotNet is way too slow getting stuff up. I guess they have to proofread and be careful since it is a public site. So, in the mean time, my friend (not my boss which appears to be the impression some people have. Scott and I got a good laugh)...

Okay, so I don't have a link for it, but I have submitted it so hopefully it will show up shortly. I have written a paper entitled Biztalk 2004 Advanced Messagebox Queries which is designed to help you automate a lot of your operational health management...

Okay, I have seen this copied on two different blogs, so it is apparently usefull enough that others might be interested. I posted this originally on a public discussion alias in response to a question on where mappings should be done. “While there are...

Okay, I have been neglect and am trying to remedy this. I have a couple of papers I am working on which will get posted here very shortly. Hopefully one will be here by end of the week. I am also busy at work on BTS stuff trying to make your life easier...

So where do subscriptions come from or more importantly when do they appear. As we described in our earlier post, there are two types of subscriptions, activation subscriptions and instance (correlation) subscriptions. All activation subscriptions are...

Okay, according to the stats, you guys stopped reading when I posted the convoy topic, but, well, I'll keep throwing stuff at you and hope you enjoy it. This is the first installment of the bizTalk pub/sub infrastructure talk. I have met lots of...

CONVOYS From the BizTalk Documentation: When a group of correlated messages could potentially be received at the same time, a race condition could occur in which a correlation set in a particular orchestration instance must be initialized by...

Be sure to check out Kevin Smith's (kevinsmi) blog which appears to have just come out. He's an ok chap, although I think he misspelled my last name on purpose (since we shared an office for a year you'd think he'd know how to spell it). Hopefully this...