biztalk

BizTalk mapper and the [ThreadStatic] attribute

I've recently encountered an issue with the multi-threaded nature of the BizTalk Mapper and how it handles external assemblies. As this quote from MSDN indicates: Important Any code written in an external assembly for use in a scripting functoid needs to be thread safe. This is required because multiple instances of a map c...

Why doesn't the BizTalk 2009 SMTP Adapter support BCC and Priority ?

When looking at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560648%28BTS.10%29.aspx I couldn't find BCC or Priority, so I'm sure it's not supported. But why ? ...

Create key pair for BizTalk AS2 connection

I need to create an AS2 connection in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to communicate with a business partner. I've worked with BizTalk AS2 config before and the BizTalk docs have pretty good walkthroughs about how to configure everything, but they don't talk about how to get/generate a certificate, and I don't have much experience there. What is...

BizTalk server problem

Hi, we have a biztalk server (a virtual one (1!)...) at our company, and an sql server where the data is being kept. Now we have a lot of data traffic. I'm talking about hundred of thousands. So I'm actually not even sure if one server is pretty safe, but our company is not that easy to convince. Now recently we have a lot of problems. ...

Encryption/Decryption using X509 certificate in biztalk custome pipeline component

Hi All, I need to use X509 certificate in the BizTalk Custom Pipeline component to Encrypt/Sign the message and to Decrypt/Verify signature, please let me know some good samples/artcile/blogs etc which explains how to acheive this. RSA needs to be the encrypton algoritham. Thanks. ...

Utilities to find Gen1, Gen 2 objects promoted in BizTalk Orchestration?

Hi I am trying to profile a memory guzzling biztalk orchestration. This orchestration is using plenty of maps with a few custom script functoids. I wish to identify the lifetime of the custom objects created by orchestration and how are they promoted in the Garbagage collection. Am not able to use the CLR profiler for the same. Looki...

WSDL - to Java (IBM Rational Application Developer) from BizTalk

In Biztalk, I always make the root element and the typename the same as the filename (less the .xsd extension). We have an orchestration, published as WCF web service (Basic Http Binding). When Java (RAD) pulls the WSDL and generates classes and packages, it builds a package and a class name with the same name, thus it won't compile w...

Publishing a receive location with Wcf NetMsmq binding

Hi I have a one-way receive location set to Wcf-Custom with bindings for NetMsmq pointing at a local queue. I then used the Publishing Wizard to publish the "Metadata only endpoint", which went ahead and created the site. I changed the site to run under an AppPool that has permissions on BizTalk. When I try browse to the svc file i keep...

What books on BizTalk 2006 would you recommend?

What books on BizTalk 2006 would you recommend to a .NET developer wishing to get into development, configuration and customization of BizTalk solutions? Perhaps a set of introductory items and also some titles on advanced BizTalk concepts. ...

BizTalk: Queue requests to a send port

I have a send port going to a web service. At most, I want only 10 requests to be send to the web service at a time. Is this possible to do in biztalk? Hopefully through configuration? ...

BizTalk Memory Usage per item

Hi, I recently began outbalancing our host instance memory usage because we had a lot of throttling problems. Now I used performance counters to view the memory usage of each host instance. And I also used a tool called the MsgBoxViewer to get to see which ports/locations/orchestrations run per host instance. Now I was wondering if the...

Performance and monitoring .NET Apps

Hi, We've build a Web Application which is performing horrible even with alot of resources available. My boss doesn't believe me that the application is consuming alot of Hardware IO, so I have to prove that the hardware is ok, but the web app is really crap. The app is using: SQL Server 2000 with SP4 The main web application (.NET 3...

BizTalk Business Activty Monitor

Hi, I recently started with the BAM from BizTalk. I created a simple orchestration. I configured the BAM for BizTalk ofcourse. I used excel to create a simple schema with only textfields. I deployed this xml schema to the BizTalk primary import using: bm deploy-all -DefinitionFile:myxml.xml. Opened the TPE and opened the deployed sche...

Create a File in a Biztalk message inside a orchestration

Hi! I'm having some trouble sending a file by ftp from my BizTalk 2006RC. The part the i struggle is to create a real file named "OPA0037" with only one line "OPA0037;TEST;;;" that it after the ftp part isn't a problem i juste don't see how to create a file from a message... It can only be in the orchestration. any help any idea is...

Network Load Balancing Biztalk Instances

What are some good articles/ resources to understand how load balancing is configured with Biztalk --- both in terms of inherent abilities of the product as well as employing NLB (network load balancing with Windows 2003 or later editions)? EDIT: I am specifically interested in the impact of application protocol on load balancing? For e...

BizTalk File Adapter: Pick files from subfolders

In File adapter configuration, we can specify a folder path to scan for new files. but this doesn't work if we want to monitor whole tree i.e. folder and all of its sub folders for new files. any idea how can I achieve this behavior in BizTalk 2006 Thanks ...

Biztalk Ordered Delivery failure

We have a BizTalk application where the order of messages being inputted is very important and has to be kept, meaning they have to be outputted in the same order. Normally ordered delivery would do the trick here. However I read that ordered delivery is only guaranteed when you connect a receive location directly to a send port. The m...

Biztalk Ordered Delivery direct bound to multiple ports

Hi, another ordered delivery problem. We have an orchestration which is bound to a send port which has ordered delivery true. Another send port also picks up these messages through filtering, this port also has ordered delivery. Now for some reason when there are multiple ports using the message and one of these is directly port bind...

Add basicHttpBinding to BizTalk ESB Toolkit WCF Service /ESB.ItineraryServices.WCF/ProcessItinerary.svc

Hello Just getting started with the ESB Toolkit 2.0 on BizTalk Server 2009. I can get a .NET client to talk to the ESB Toolkit WCF Service /ESB.ItineraryServices.WCF/ProcessItinerary.svc with no problem at all, however, we use a client technology that cannot process wsHttpBindings at all, it can only see the basicHttpBinding. Does anyo...

Biztalk install help

Hi, I try to install Biztalk2009, with SQL 2008R2CTPNov, on Win Server 2008. I'm blocked at the configuration step "groups" : [19:22:18 Info Configuration Framework]Configuring feature: WMI [19:22:18 Info BtsCfg] Entering function: CBtsCfg::ConfigureFeature [19:22:18 Info BtsCfg] Configuring feature: WMI [19:22:18 Info ...