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Enclosed is an example of a Biztalk Error that can be resolved by the application of an Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 hotfix. ENTSSO Error Enterprise Single Sign-On 10514 Server1 "An error occurred while attempting to access the SSO database. Function...

In a nutshell, a BizTalk Accelerator is an industry specific solution. There are two editions: Enterprise and Standard. Each edition is installed with the corresponding BizTalk Server edition except for Developer edition which requires Enterprise. Each...

Using BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN)? If so, this information should be useful. This product does not have the large user base like BizTalk. This can lead to slower discovery of issues. This blog will provide some general help and also specifically...

A customer reported a problem with Biztalk Server 2006. The problem was that file receive locations did not appear to be picking up files reliably and on schedule. The one way that the problem could be reproduced was if the host instance was restarted...

This is a repost of Ahmed Irkakene’s mail to his fellow BizTalk colleagues.   ======================================================================   I have been working with a customer last time to install several BTS 2009 systems.  ...

The link below instructs the user in step #3: "Select the first folder under the XML folder, drag it to Solutions Explorer in Visual Studio, and drop it into your project. Repeat for each of the sub-folders in the XML folder, creating the same folder...

Recently, I worked on a BAM issue and I wanted to share with you all some interesting facts which I found while researching on this. Customer implemented BAM Activities with Event Streams. They were using OrchestrationEventStreams within Orchestrations...

I've been pinged a number of times on this so thought I should blog the workaround and an explanation. First, let's say MBV shows you something like the following in the Warning and Summary Report: Or you just notice in MBV that there's a bunch...

I was working with a customer recently where they do not want to install SSIS on the SQL Server hosting BizTalk databases, instead the requirement was to have a separate server dedicated to SSIS which will run the BAM packages. At the first instinct,...

As x64 O/S's start to become the norm documenting the additional steps required to configure BTARN to work with these may be helpful. Most of this information is documented in the troubleshooting or "known issues" section of the product documentation...

I have seen few customers running into this issue. This forced me to write this blog. Background : On a development environment, my customer had a BizTalk application. Application has few WCF bindings. They created MSI file that can be used to install...

Recently, we ran into some issues in which the MQSC adapter was not displayed as an option in the BizTalk Administration console, even after the adapter was properly installed on a BizTalk 2009 / Windows 2008 SP1 server. Before outlining the problem and...

A number of BizTalk users have been wondering lately that they are not able to create an x64 host on a Standard edition. The comparison of the features of available BizTalk editions is not really clarifying this issue: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk...

In my last blog I mentioned issues with BizTalk 09 when creating references between projects. Here's some follow up thanks to Mandi on the BizTalk escalation team. BizTalk solutions are often separated into various projects for the different artifacts...

As part of a blog entry back in April I mentioned a problem some folks were having with RNIFSend pages. Here’s the blog link (check the bottom of the post). http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalkcpr/archive/2009/09/04/troubleshooting-btarn-web-pages-and-more...

  I have seen quite a few issues since last year regarding to BTARN configuration wizard.  The failures seemed to be in the wizard itself, not the typical SQL connectivity or permission related issues.  In some cases the UI failed to load...

You may want to consider the following issue if you plan on hosting your WCF endpoints in IIS. Consider an ASP.NET application which makes both http and non-http (netNamedPipeBinding or netTcpBinding) WCF calls. If the ASP.NET application is restarted...

As you may have heard, there is an issue in the BizTalk 2006 R2 and 2009 EDI Engines that results in a failed EDI transaction if the EDI message contains a date node that has a leap year value - for example 2/29/2012. This issue and hotfix is documented...

Looks like some slipped through the cracks on SP1 upgrades with BTARN installed. If the process hangs with the command box open check the setup log. It may look like this. . . . [08/13/10 11:42:12] Package Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet...

Support for BTARN often involves issues connecting with the partner. Unfortunately the web pages deployed for this purpose are not the best when it comes to troubleshooting. It can be problematic to tell a customer they need to deploy new pages with increased...

Orchestration debugger can be a life-saver when looking for troublesome processing. This is one of the great things BizTalk can do while working with the development environment. This tool should be used with extreme care in a production environment....

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...

A recent bug found in BTARN processing can cause stray text to appear in response messages. The issue is a temporary variable not being cleared. Here is a sample from a recent case. <ActionIdentity> <GlobalBusinessActionCode>Formally confirms...

I ran into another issue today that was caused by sql user options turning nocount on. There was a failure in configure Bam Tools This was in evidence in the configuration log. [4:02:34 PM Info BAMTools] Updating TDDS_Destinations connection string with...

I'm publishing a list of KBKeywords that you can use to determine what hotfixes are available for a particular version of Biztalk. This is important because there are over 500 Biztalk kb articles but there are 5 soon to be 6 versions of Biztalk Server...