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There would be scenarios where you are inserting into a Parent table which have got an auto incrementing or an Identity field and you need to get this identity value back and use it to insert into child table records. And that too all, in a single transaction...

Read on to learn about two utilities guaranteed to make your BizTalk administration and troubleshooting much easier. Many users have already discovered MessageBox Viewer (MBV). Very soon a compliment to MBV will be available, the Terminator. This utility...

My First Post It’s been awhile since I told Mike that I’ll be putting up a post. I hesitate to write after reading all the deep technical contents Mike has been writing. I have always envisioned my role to consist of random ranting of daily routines...

I had an interesting Biztalk case a short while ago and wanted to make this public knowledge. The Biztalk admins had reported that message delivery was slowing down considerably periodically during the course of operations. They had found that the slowdown...

In Biztalk sometimes we see that performance of server is going down. Suddenly server has become slow. Most of times this would be because of Host throttling. Now, what is Host Throttling? :) ... Refer Link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

Event ID 6913 Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Server 2006 Event Category: BizTalk Server 2006 Event ID: 6913 User: N/A Computer: <Computer name> Description: An attempt to connect to <SQL server name> SQL Server database on server...

Troubleshooting Enterprise Single-Sign-On can be tricky. Below are items that should always be checked. Quick Checklist: 1) Is there anything in the Application event log from ENTSSO? 2) Is the ENTSSO service installed correctly? Does it start...

Seems like not many Biztalk installations are tuning the Large Message Threshold and Fragment size. And the problem is that not many Biztalk admins can tell you off the top of their head how large the average message size is and how large the largest...

In a recent case the customer was attempting to install BizTalk 09 with SQL 2008 R2. It fails with the following error. "Failed to create Management database 'BizTalkMgmtDB' on server 'XXXXX'. Error '0x80040E1d' occurred." The server name is represented...

Some recent cases have highlighted a couple of issues with the WCF SAP adapter. After some digging it turns out these are too common. The point here is to get these on the BizTalk blog. The first issue is intermittent failure to receive SAP documents...

Have you manually recreated the BizTalk Performance counters using the following link but some of the counters were still missing? How to manually recreate missing BizTalk performance counters http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkperformance/archive/2007...

I wanted to create a snap shot of BizTalk 2006 solutions for MQSeries. The two options we have can be confusing, so hopefully the information below will add some clarity. BizTalk WebSphere MQ Adapters BizTalk Server 2006 we only use: 1) MQSeries...

Long-Running Singleton Orchestrations Singleton orchestrations usually involve correlated receives within a loop. This design pattern is often necessary for batching, maintain ordered processing, or throttle downstream work. The singleton design...

Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 allows you to create applications to integrate your health care computer systems. Very often, the out of the box schemas will not meet your needs. An HL7 schema can be updated like any other BizTalk schema with the...

Proxy configuration for BizTalk has always been fairly straight forward. Go to the send point and click the “Configure” button then select the “Proxy” tab. Couldn’t be much easier.   A recent case pointed out what happens when the “Do not use proxy...

Had an interesting case where Biztalk File Receieve locations were becoming disabled. Most commonly this is caused by an issues with maxcmds which is documented here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810886 In some cases this is is due to the following...

There are two main points: It's not supported by the BizTalk product group as clearly documented in KB article 904356. It can be done. To expand on item 1, migrating BizTalk to a new domain has never been tested by the BizTalk product group...

I worked on an issue where we were receiving two different messages (Message1 and Message2) inside orchestration each with multiple records. Now, we have to join these messages in a map inside orchestration based on TRANID and PROCID. So basically, we...

Sometime back I worked on a case where the spool would go very high and I have been thinking to blog this for some time now and today I decided I will process this awaiting queued item in my mind. I had a customer who was seeing a surge in the spool...

This is probably not limited to just double quotes but what seemed to be a simple thing gave me quite a few head-scratching minutes yesterday.  The task was straightforward.  Customer has a double quote as part of a data string inside of a XML...

This was an interesting issue on which I worked with Shaheer (Biztalk Escalation Engineer) for 2 customers, so I thought I would share it with all. Customer is using File Adapter at Send Port to write files to a file server. Sometimes, the send message...

Recently I noticed a trend occurring while working on several performance cases that I would like to share with the blogsphere. In one case in particular, the problem was that, under stress, many hundreds of Biztalk orchestrations were running at one...

Troubleshooting BTARN Web Pages One of the more frustrating things about working with BTARN is troubleshooting the web pages. The code causes the error event log entry to be either 400 or 500. The actual error is lost. private void HandleError(ErrorLevel...

If we are using Multi-part Message inside Orchestration and we have any part which is of simple type, then we cannot directly access any message part of this Multi-part Message from the transform shape inside Orchestration. This is a limitation with...

(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...