The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the fourth Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2010. The cumulative update model is used to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule. HIS 2010 CU4 includes fixes for HIS 2010...

For those of you still using HIS 2006 in your environments, please be aware that HIS 2006 entered the Extended Support phase of its lifecycle this past Tuesday (April 10, 2012). When a product is in Extended Support, it means that Microsoft Support still...

I wanted to let everyone know that we have a Host Integration Server Developer Center page that contains links to various HIS resources. We are trying to make sure that we update the site with information about new HIS updates and resources as they become...

The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the third Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2010. The cumulative update model is used to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule. HIS 2010 CU3 includes fixes for HIS 2010...

  One of the HIS Product Team Test Engineers has put together a .NET Managed C++ Extensions Sample for CPI-C that can be used with HIS 2010. Here is an overview of the sample: This sample is a Visual Studio 2010 Sample project. This project is a...

HIS 2000 has been in the Extended Support phase of its lifecycle since January 9, 2007. Per the Lifecycle Support policy, the support lifecycle for HIS 2000 ends on January 10, 2012. Click the following link to see the HIS 2000 lifecycle information:...

The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the second Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2009. The cumulative update model is used to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule. HIS 2009 CU2 includes fixes for HIS 2009...

The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the second Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2010. The cumulative update model is used to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule. HIS 2010 CU2 includes fixes for HIS 2010...

A HIS 2010 Licensing document has just been posted at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27553 . Ever since HIS started being licensed as part of BizTalk Server back with the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 release, there have been lots of questions...

The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the first Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2009. The cumulative update model is something that SQL Server and Biztalk Server also use to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule...

The Host Integration Server Product Team has just released the first Cumulative Update (CU) for HIS 2010. The cumulative update model is something that SQL Server and Biztalk Server also use to package and release product fixes on a more consistent schedule...

Updated online documentation for the standalone OLE DB Provider for DB2 V3 included with the SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is available at the following location: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee229549(v=SQL.10).aspx

If you are using HIS 2010 and want to communicate with IBM DB2 for z/OS V7, you might encounter the following issues. 1) The sample query in the Data Access Tool (DAT) or Data Source Wizard (DSW) fails with the following error: An internal network library...

If you use the BizTalk Adapter for DB2 to connect to a DB2 system, you may see errors similar to the following in the application event log if you use a connection string that does not include a Default Schema: Event ID: 5743 Source: BizTalk Server Level...

If you are using the BizTalk Adapter for Host Applications (BAHA) included with BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems (BAHS), you might encounter an error similar to the following error if the BAHA (i.e. Transaction Integrator) application includes discriminated...

Host Integration Server 2010 will be available for customers as part of the BizTalk Server 2010 release on October 1, 2010. The following are some links to additional information for the HIS 2010 release: Host Integration Server 2010 Datasheet BizTalk...

I just wanted to make sure that Host Integration Server users/enthusiasts are aware of the public forum that is available on TechNet. The forum replaces the public HIS newsgroup that was shutdown in June. The HIS forum is located at the following link...

We recently ran into a case where a customer was trying to upgrade from HIS 2004 to HIS 2009. The HIS 2009 setup process started and detected that HIS 2004 was installed. A dialog was displayed indicating that HIS 2004 would be uninstalled. After clicking...

The latest version of the standalone OLE DB Provider for DB2 is now available as part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ceb4346f-657f-4d28...

The following error may be displayed when pressing F1 in the HIS 2009 Configuration Tool: This problem occurs if “Microsoft Document Explorer 2005” is not installed on the system. If I install  "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005", then error...

You may find some cases where the HIS 2009 Documentation fails to get installed even though you selected the “Documentation” component during the setup process. This can occur when “Microsoft Document Explorer 2005” is not installed on the system. The...

In case you weren’t aware, HIS 2004 has moved from Mainstream Support to Extended Support as of January 12, 2010.  Per the definition of Extended Support , new non-security related hotfixes will not be done unless a separate Extended Support Contract...

For those of you running Host Integration Server 2006, you might be interested in knowing that HIS 2006 SP1 is available for download at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c0cc5e8d-fc47-41ac-bcad-67832249eb41...

If you install HIS 2009 or BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems 2.0 in order to use Transaction Integrator or the BizTalk Adapter for Host Applications, you might run into a scenario where the SnaBase service logs the following errors: Event ID: 556 Source...

This particular problem was reported to me by a customer, but I also found out that the same issue was being seen by the HIS Product Team on one of their iSeries systems. It was good timing all around as it might affect others that want to connect HIS...