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Hi, When you want to upgraded to BizTalk 2009 from BizTalk 2006 R2, it is a relatively easy process to do on Windows 2003. MSMQT will no longer work, so if you implement message queuing then I advise to build another solution than use MSMQT. Here is the upgrade warning: Upgrade Required Setup has detected...

Hi Folks, I was away on holiday in South Africa and on my return, a colleague of mine mentioned that the BizTalk receive locations were unexpectedly shutting down. It would always be a random receive location. We had just reached 50 receive locations and growing. In the Event Log BizTalk would complain...

Hi Folks, I notice BizTalk does not like certain Non-Printable characters when dealing with XML data. I use a pipeline component to strip them out of the stream. Here is the sample code that you can use in a PipeLine component: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace...

Hi Folks, No, I have not forgotten to post the blog about web services part 2 and MSBuild part 2, I need to find sometime to do it, I hate to rush it, you know... Introduction After toiling with Inline pipelines to achieve low latency objectives, I thought it might be a good idea to share what I have...

Hi Folks, I recently needed to automate our file management system. I decided to use the BizTalk SharePoint Adapter that ships with BizTalk 2006 and R2. This article is for advanced BizTalk developers that are comfortable with pipeline components. Introduction How the adapter works is that you need to...

Aggregator Pattern Pitfalls One of the features you would expect BizTalk to accomplish is in built BATCHING, where you need to send messages to an external system in Batch Mode, as usual a batching system depends on two variables: Maximum Batch Size OR Batching Interval (Time Frame) Microsoft was kind...

Hi Folks, When you have developed an Orchestration with different possible routes and branches, it might be useful to know which branches are executing the most. I certainly dislike Orchestrations but for this solution, I had to use one due to legacy system design L , so I got a good excuse this time...

Hi Folks, This article is going to discuss how to use Enterprise Library and integrate it with BizTalk Components. The examples in this blog are based on a Pipeline component that I use to import flat files, you can easily convert the pipeline component to a file adapter, but the performance difference...

Hi Folks, Sometimes in Orchestrations you would like to throw a custom exception. Before we begin, remember this rule: Never throw a general exception outside the catch block in an Orchestration The rule above is a bit funny, because when you drag a default exception shape in a try block within an orchestration...

Hi Folks, Just finished the BizTalk 2006 Exam with a score of 985, I got one question wrong in the Enable Business Activity Monitoring section, I would like to take the opportunity to explain what you need to do to pass this exam from a practical perspective and get the best out of the experience! Develop...