August 2006 - Posts

Troubleshooting "Internal Server Error" With BizTalk Web Services
30 August 06 07:15 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

There's virtually no BizTalk-related error that's more frustrating than exposing an orchestration as a web service, trying to call it, and getting the horrific "Internal Server Error" or "Internal SOAP Processing Failure". To make it even more fun, you'll Read More...

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BizTalk 2006 Documenter Available
25 August 06 07:12 AM | rseroter | 9 Comments   

I hadn't realized we released this publicly yet, but noticed this morning that the BizTalk Server 2006 Documenter is now available for you to download. See Paul's blog for the link. I love this tool. To be able to generate a CHM file containing summaries Read More...

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Useful New BizTalk BAM Documents Released
17 August 06 03:07 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

We just released two great resources for BizTalk BAM aficionados. The first, BAM Frequently Asked Questions covers great topics like BAM tracing, common errors, maintaining the BAM databases and more. Good stuff. I really like the second doc. Developing Read More...

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Storing HTML in BizTalk Schema for Use In InfoPath
14 August 06 11:55 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

During the same recent BizTalk POC I mentioned previously , I had the occasion to try and store rich HTML in a BizTalk schema for use in a Microsoft InfoPath RichTextBox field. I had to work a little magic, and thought I'd share that here. The first thing Read More...

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New Whitepaper Comparing BizTalk Adapter Perf in 2004 vs. 2006
09 August 06 01:13 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

Just noticed a brand new paper on Microsoft.com called BizTalk Server 2006 Comparative Adapter Study . It's a brief overview of performance of BizTalk 2004 adapters vs. BizTalk 2006 adapters. Highlighted here are the FILE adapter, MSMQ adapter, FTP, SMTP, Read More...

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Fun With BizTalk Batching and Promoted Properties
01 August 06 04:25 PM | rseroter | 4 Comments   

I recently had a bit of time to figure out answers to some questions about how BizTalk handles promoted values in batches. Specifically, do promoted values from the "envelope" transfer to the "body", and what if you want to interact with those values Read More...

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