11/7/2008 BizTalk MAP : Suppress element in output, if its not present in input.

Posted at: 11/7/2008 at 1:45 PM by saravana
I have seen this question being asked in news group often. It's something very trivial to do in BizTalk map using the value mapping functoid, which returns the value of the second parameter if the value of the first parameter is true. Hope this picture will explain how to do it. Note: make sure th... [More]

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11/5/2008 Dealing with web services returning byte[] in BizTalk

Posted at: 11/5/2008 at 11:51 AM by saravana
Recently I saw some postings in the BizTalk newsgroup asking how we can handle web service operation that returns a byte[]. Even though it’s a trivial task, you need to be aware of certain things. Below is my simple web service operation, which returns a byte[]. For simplicity, I just got this one ... [More]

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11/3/2008 Silverlight on top of BAM data

Posted at: 11/3/2008 at 5:36 PM by saravana
I always got some affection towards the UI and design technologies as a hobbyist. Even though I'm working as a full time BizTalk consultant for a while now, in each and every project I kind of introduced a web project for some sort of monitoring/configuration type of work. In my current ... [More]

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8/27/2008 Renaming your BizTalk machine

Posted at: 8/27/2008 at 6:04 PM by saravana
Anyone who been working on BizTalk server long enough will know renaming a BizTalk machine is not a trivial task. It always involves quite a bit of manual work, things like Un-configure the existing setting either using the UI or ConfigFramework /U switch Deleting the Databases manually, ... [More]

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8/26/2008 Multiple Isolated Host (Host Instances) - Multiple Virtual directories - different adapters, what are the rules?

Posted at: 8/26/2008 at 3:02 PM by saravana
If your BizTalk solution is mainly relying on HTTP/SOAP adapter (we are still in BTS 2006 - no WCF yet), you'll soon see weird errors popping up due to BizTalk isolated host instances / IIS Application pool  configuration. The most common one you'll encounter is this The Messagin... [More]

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8/13/2008 How to encrypt sections within BtsNtsvc.exe.config file?

Posted at: 8/13/2008 at 7:35 AM by saravana
It’s one of the common requirements in some of the projects I've worked on to put some kind of configuration information in the BizTalk config file, things like appSettings, connectionString etc. Majority of the time it will be ok to leave the value in plain text inside the xml based config file (fo... [More]

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8/11/2008 BizTalk Config file and 32bit-64bit host instances mixed server.

Posted at: 8/11/2008 at 11:34 AM by saravana
When you install 64 bit version of BizTalk sever, the application installation folder will have 2 BizTalk configuration files. 1. BtsNTSvc.exe.config, and 2. BtsNTSvc64.exe.config. Nowadays most of the production BizTalk servers will be running on 64 bit versions of software (Opera... [More]

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7/18/2008 How can I find the installed hotfixes on the server/workstation?

Posted at: 7/18/2008 at 9:47 AM by saravana
Looks like a silly question, but recently I struggled to find the installed hot fixes on our server. We install certain hotfixes on all of our BizTalk server. One of the critical ones is http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943165 to solve the high CPU usage on a 64 bit machine. Like any other norma... [More]

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6/4/2008 Read this before using bts_CleanupMsgBox stored procedure.

Posted at: 6/4/2008 at 10:37 AM by saravana
Subject: Losing subscriptions after running the sproc, resulting in complete redeploy of BizTalk application(s). bts_CleanupMsgBox is not something new and it's been there from BizTalk 2004 SP1. Basically this script is used to clear the MessageBox database (intended only for development ... [More]

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4/5/2008 Extended XmlValidation Pipeline Component

Posted at: 4/5/2008 at 9:07 AM by saravana
It's always a good practice to validate your incoming messages against schema to make sure you discard useless messages up front and avoiding unnecessary processing. BizTalk allows you to verify the validity of the incoming Xml message against deployed schema in few different ways. Some ... [More]

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