Service Pack 1 for BizTalk 2006 R2 is now released as beta, and includes a number of hotfixes. (See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974563 ) SP1 also includes a new feature, namely the ability to configure different certificates for signing outgoing AS2 messages for different parties. Prior...

One of the new features in BizTalk 2009 EDI is the possibility to create multiple batch configurations for each party. Each batch will have a specific name and specific batchID and can be managed individually. For a specific batch name you can get the corresponding batch ID. For example you may need...

Here is an issue some BizTalk R2 users have run into: For 997 functional acknowledgements you receive from your trading partner, BizTalk R2 native EDI functionality swaps the GS02 (Sender's Code) and GS03 (Receiver’s Code) fields. This also happens with generated 997 technical acknowledgements which...

(Posted on behalf of mstern) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945165/en-us You may receive error messages when you receive an X12 997 functional ACK without the AK304 segment in a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 EDI application http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947459/en-us FIX: The GS04 header value uses the CCYYMM...

(Posted on behalf of mstern) BizTalk 2006 R2 EDI comes with a large number of standard EDI schemas which are in a self-extracting archive: \Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\XSD_Schema\EDIMicrosoftEdiXSDTemplates.exe Once you extract these, you will have more than 8,000 standard schemas. See the R2 EDI Product...