4/21/2005 New Biztalk Server 2004 Technical documents

Posted at: 4/21/2005 at 9:31 AM by saravana
Understanding BizTalk Server 2004 BizTalk Server 2004 Performance Characteristics Developing Integration Solutions with BizTalk Server 2004
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4/18/2005 Direct Binding in Orchestration

Posted at: 4/18/2005 at 12:15 PM by saravana
Here is a quick tip/example to use direct binding in Orchestration. It's quite simple if you do it correctly. Or else you'll end with the following error message: The BizTalk compiler will not allow you to pass an 'implements' port to a 'uses' port parameter, or vice versa. (to find out what is 'implements' and 'uses', there is a great post by Charles Young in his blog) Say, there are two orchestrations O1 (sender) and O2 (receiver) in the same asse... [More]
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4/18/2005 Pipeline Performance

Posted at: 4/18/2005 at 11:50 AM by saravana
At the moment I'm working on one of the world's biggest civilian project and one of the world's biggest biztalk implementation. In order to achive strict SLA targets each and every milliseconds Biztalk takes inside the processing time frame is really critical for us. I'm in the process of tuning performance in our custom pipeline component. We are taking different approaches to test the performance. I was experimenting with pipeline.exe -t option to calculate the time it takes... [More]
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4/18/2005 Intersting tips I came across while preparing for the exam.

Posted at: 4/18/2005 at 4:20 AM by saravana
Here are some of the intersting points I came across while I was preparing for the Biztalk sever partner competency exam: Point 1: If you performed a custom installation including Development-only or Administration Tools-only, you must Join rather than Create a BizTalk group during configuration Point 2: You can upgrade from Partner to Standard, Partner to Enterprise, Standard to Enterprise, and Evaluation to Enterprise. You cannot upgrade from Developer to Partner, Developer to Standa... [More]
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4/13/2005 Biztalk Health Monitoring Tool

Posted at: 4/13/2005 at 6:24 PM by saravana
The BizTalk Server 2004 Health Monitor tool is a Microsoft Windows® service that is designed to monitor application hosts for active messages based on conditions that are set in the configuration file. The user can specify how long (in hours) messages can be active and how many messages can be active before the tool reports a warning and logs data to a log file. The user also sets the interval time (in minutes) at which the tool should check for messages that meet these conditions. ... [More]
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4/8/2005 Passed 74-135 Biztalk 2004 Exam

Posted at: 4/8/2005 at 4:41 PM by saravana
Took the exam this afternoon and cleared it. Phew! One of toughest MS exams I've taken. Just theoretical knowledge will not help to pass this paper. I feel some of the questions are really easy ones, which you can answer directly without thinking too much for example, having a key file to deploy the assembly (I'm not sure whether its counted to the final score, because in the beginning they gave me this warning saying some of the questions are dummy and doesn't add any marks to th... [More]
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4/3/2005 Pipeline.exe for performance Improvement

Posted at: 4/3/2005 at 11:31 PM by saravana
I guess many of you guys around will be working with custom pipeline components and I suppose you create biztalk artifacts (send/Receive port) to test your pipeline components. Along with the SDK install comes this tool pipeline.exe which can be used for the following purposes: * Debug third-party pipeline components outside of the server environment. * Diagnose parsing engine error messages. * Experiment with different schemas without the burden of compiling, deploying, undeploying, an... [More]
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4/2/2005 Windows 2003/XP Laptop /LCD screen users

Posted at: 4/2/2005 at 1:55 PM by saravana
Have you heard of ClearType? ClearType is a font smoothing technology build on XP/2003. I been using Windows 2003 for a while now in my laptop, but haven't used this feature till I came across a post by accident when I was looking for some Biztalk Resources. Follow this simple steps and I'm sure you'll be so delighted to see your screen after this. Right click on the desktop and go to Properties Click the Appearance tab Click the Effects button Select ClearType in the dro... [More]
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