What to do when the only domain controller in a network gets useless and Team Foundation Server is installed in the workgroup edition.
I came accross this issue after a server broke down and there seemed to be a fault in the back up plan. After installing a new domain, i added the new users to the domain. Now i wanted to setup a connection to the TFS server. I found out there was a problem with the licensed users group. This group has a fixed number of 1-5 users. The company had 5 users in the licensed user group, so there was no way to add a new user to this group. In fact there was no user that had access to the server, because all licensed users where part of the old domain and the new domain users where not licensed on the server.
After a lot of seeking through the internet i tried the reinstall option because there wasn't a good post about how to solve the problem. Reinstall through the add/remove programms in the control panel. Reboot the system. My user was added to the licensed users group, there were no other users in the group, problem solved.
What are persistence points in Biztalk?
To have a recoverable proces and to be sure that Biztalk can dehydrate orchestrations Biztalk will persist the state of the orchestration in the database. Because this proces will slow down the Biztalk application it is important to know when Biztalk will persist the orchestration.
There are a few rules that apply to persistence in Biztalk:
- Send ports will persist the orchestration at the end of the send shape
- Orchestrations will be persisited at the end of the orchestration
- The orchestration will be persisted at the end of a transaction (scope shape)
- When you start an other orchestration through the start orchestration shape
- When the system is shut down the orchestration is persisted
- When the orchestration is suspended
- When the orchestration is finished
When send shapes are used in an atomic scope shape the persistence will not occur at the end of the send shape. Persistence points will be merged when they are executed at the same point in the orchestration like a send shape at the end of an orchestration or an atomic scope at the end of an orchestration. But when a parrallel execution shape is used at the end of an orchestration it will have the persisitence points in the parralel execution shape and at the end of the orchestration.
One student asked me if it is possible to move functiods from one page to another in the Biztalk mapper.
To move functiods from one page to another in the Biztalk mapper follow these steps:
- Open the Biztalk map
- Create a new page in the map
- Select all links and functiods you want to move
- Drag the selected items over the newly create page tab
- Wait a few seconds until the page moves to the front
- Drag the selected items in the design surface of the page.