Jay Kinker - Talking BizTalk

Simple solution for me: Allow MSN at Anti Virus

I upgraded MSN yesterday and it worked well. When I rebooted my laptop today it stopped working!

When I searched for the error code, I got huge list of pages with variety of solutions like registry changes and all sorts of setting which was not required at all (at least for me). So I choose to write my solution.

I am using Vista Ultimate 64 bit

Microsoft Help on MSN

With announcement of.Net 4.0, VS2010 and other related products: One of common questions that I hear is “What’s next for BizTalk Server?”. My answer: it would probably be BizTalk Server 2009 R2.

BizTalk Server 2006 R3 was renamed to BizTalk Server 2009 and we know the list of features new version provides. I wonder why BTS2009 and why not BTS2006 R3. I see the BTS2009 more of a technology parity with other Microsoft products. Yes, it does have some enhancements but does is qualify for a new major release! I don’t think so. This looks more of a strategically decision than a technical/logical one : Just because all other (many related) Microsoft product have a new major releases do not qualify to have major release for BizTalk.

Very recently BTS2009 was released so, I doubt if BizTalk Server 2010 is released next year! If next release is around making it .net 4.0, VS2010 and related technologies compatible then It would probably be named “BizTalk Server 2009 R2”. It should be named BTS2010 only if some major enhancements are released as it was done with 2004 and 2006. Lets see what Microsoft comes up with.

Roadmap for BizTalk Server: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/roadmap.aspx

Documents:

White paper - BizTalk Adapter Pack: Connecting LOB Systems and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd442475(BTS.10).aspx

White paper - BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443655(BTS.10).aspx

Downloads:

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Readme and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Installation Guide

Download the latest readme and the installation instructions for the BizTalk Adapter Pack: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d9f588e9-fa3e-4b81-a598-ddd9f471f382  

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0

Documentation for the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 in CHM format: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=58bd17c8-8efa-4b69-ab51-9f5b11a962dc  

Installing UDDI Services 3.0

Guidance for installing and configuring UDDI Services 3.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9d1831cc-8146-486b-b489-a06a1aa2fb5b  

BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer V1.2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=93d432fe-1370-4b6d-aaa8-a0c43c30f5ab  

New KB's

BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0 EN: Describes a hotfix rollup package that is available for BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960914/EN-US  

BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0 EN: FIX: BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1 support for the MT202COV and MT205COV message types of the SWIFT 2009 Standard
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972031/EN-US  

BizTalk Adapter for mySAP 2.0 EN: BizTalk Editor cannot load schemas that are generated from Schema Generation Wizard of BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite if the type attributes begin with numbers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959139/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: FIX: Orchestration instances continuously switch from Active to Dehydrated state and cause high CPU usage on servers that host BizTalk Server 2006 (954877.KB.EN-US.1.0)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954877/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: BizTalk Server Operators group members cannot terminate service instances successfully in the BizTalk Administration Console in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958083/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: Trailing white spaces are removed from a promoted property if tracking is disabled in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959529/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: Trailing spaces are truncated in an outgoing 278 EDI file when you use BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA 3.3 in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967212/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An error message occurs when BizTalk Server receives an MDN that does not contain the Message-ID field in the HTTP header: "System.ArgumentException: Empty parameter string not allowed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956916/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: You cannot select two or more maps that have source schemas the belong to the same multi-root schema file on the same send or on the same receive port in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957352/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An HIPAA 837 document that has noncompliant NM108 and NM109 data elements is not validated as expected in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957512/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The HHMMSSd time format is now available for selection for the GS5 element when you configure EDI properties of BizTalk party in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960237/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Invalid 997 functional acknowledgements are generated in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960473/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO EMS does not delete messages from the JMS queue after the adapter successfully receives the messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961346/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk RFID service stops generating management events after you uninstall a BizTalk RFID hotfix in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972449/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The SE Segment delimiter/terminator is missing intermittently in outgoing 997 functional acknowledgements when you send and receive EDI messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972478/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Some interchanges are suspended if you receive multiple interchanges that are included in a single EDI message by using the EDI receive pipeline in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972530/EN-US  

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Event ID 5740 is logged in the Application log when you use an FTP adapter in BizTalk Server to receive files from an empty directory on an FTP server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=958235

Microsoft announced the new updated public website for MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional):
www.microsoft.com/mvp

The site is designed to help people understand the MVP Award Program and the exclusive nature of the MVP Award. Offered in nine languages, the new pages feature a fresher design, and simplify the user experience while addressing the key questions that site visitors ask.

One improved way to the MVP Award Program!

Yes, now its Microsoft getting into SEO. Personally, I have not been a big fan of SEO initiatives and the action that is going around it. Following article is what I agree: http://societrends.com/2009/05/07/seo-is-todays-snake-oil/

Having said that, we still have to keep our customers happy and IIS SEO Toolkit can make developers life easy. Some of customization we do today for achieving SEO requires multiple third party utilities and in the end becomes miserable to maintain.

Downloads

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ceb0bb34-f9d2-4d14-8bbe-0311d227b091

BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=76736ba7-3c05-4436-9353-1c33f9005194

Installing and Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=73906bf5-4197-4941-a73f-a43c0d38618f

BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer V1.2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=93d432fe-1370-4b6d-aaa8-a0c43c30f5ab

BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite Installation Guide and Release Notes

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=72e800a9-e9fd-4e5f-9c4a-cd340679d700

New KB's

BizTalk RosettaNet Std 3.0 EN: FIX: Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) messages that contains an invalid DateTimeStamp value are not rejected in BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN) 3.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970491/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: Using Setup.exe alone for an unattended installation will not result in a configured BizTalk Server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971655/EN-US   

BizTalk Server LOB Adapters 2006: FIX: Event ID: 0 is logged when you use BizTalk Adapter for Oracle Database to send a batch of messages to an Oracle table, and a few messages are suspended

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955456/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: FIX: The MessageBox_Parts_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb SQL Server Agent job takes a long time to finish in BizTalk Server 2006 or in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959495/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An XML message remains in the active queue instead of in the suspended queue when you enable tracking after port processing for a send port that uses the EdiSend pipeline in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958296/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 does not process an XML message, and the following application event error is logged: "The targetNamespace attribute cannot have empty string as its value"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963000/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk Server FTP adapter does not retrieve files successfully from an IBM AIX-based FTP server that is set to the fr_FR locale

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967606/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: FIX: BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite installation fails on BizTalk Server 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970984/EN-US   

BizTalk Server Std 2009 EN: “The Signing Certificate has not been configured” error using certificates with EDI/AS2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971193/EN-US   

Dependencies

The Manufacturing Toolkit requires the following technologies in order to compile and run:

·         BizTalk 2009/BizTalk 2006 R2

·         SQL Server 2008/SQL Server 2005

·         Windows Server 2003 R2/Windows Server 2008

·         Visual Studio 2008 SP1

·         .Net 3.5 SP1

Here are some must have resouces for BizTalk Server 2009:

1. About BizTalk Server
     Prerequisite skills and Knowledge
     Introducing BizTalk Server

2. Install and Configure BizTalk Server
     Quick Start Guide to Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2009
     Microsoft BizTalk Server Operations Guide (Configuration Checklists)

3. Learn BizTalk Server
     BizTalk Server Tutorials
     BizTalk Server 2009 Code Samples
     BizTalk Server Virtual Labs
     BizTalk Server Technical Posters
     Learn BizTalk Server (General Resources and Topics)

4. BizTalk Server 2009 Content
     BizTalk Server 2009 Help
     BizTalk Server 2009 Installation and Upgrade Guides
     Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Help
     BizTalk Server Accelerator for HL7 .NET Class Reference
     Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet Help
     Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT
     Microsoft BizTalk RFID Help
     Microsoft BizTalk RFID Mobile Help
     Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Line of Business Adapter SDK
     Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0
     UDDI Services
     BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper-V Guide

I have received this question multiple times in recent past. Many are not able to find BizTalk's Financial Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 (A4SWFT 3.0) in their MSDN downloads. This is because all Accelerators and Adapters use to be in different section until last year.

You can find A4SWIFT 3.0 at:
Server>>BizTalk Server 2006 R2>>BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Accelerators (x86) -
CD (English)

Few more helpful links:

BizTalk 2006 R2 Accelerator for SWIFT (A4SWIFT) v3.0 Service Pack 1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3F67A576-21AA-4BED-B405-5825F297EC16&displaylang=en

BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2008 Message Pack is available at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925731#DL2

All Adapters and Accelerators for BizTalk Server 2009 are at different section so no confusion there.

Available immediately from Code Gallery, download the Windows Azure MMC.  The Windows Azure Management Tool was created to manage your storage accounts in Windows Azure and makes it simple to help debug, create, and explore your storage solutions.  In our testing, this tool has been invaluable to us to inspect messages in our queues.

debug, create, explore…

Developed as a managed MMC, the tool allows you to create and manage both blobs and queues.  Easily create and manage containers, blobs, and permissions. Add and remove queues, inspect or add messages, or empty queues as well.

Features

·         Manage multiple storage accounts (makes it easy to manage all your accounts)

·         Easily switch between remote and local storage services

·         Manage your blobs

o   Create containers and manage permissions

o   Upload files or even entire folders

o   Read metadata or preview the blob contents

·         Manage your queues

o   Create new queues

o   Monitor queues

o   Read (peek) messages

o   Post new messages to the queue

o   Purge queues

* The current release does not work with Windows 7 due to a bug in the underlying PowerShell version. All other OS versions should be unaffected.

Have you read or experimented with Azure yet?  

Business wise this is a fantastic approach from Microsoft for the way they want to sell Azure platform. Pricing, SLA and commercial version are yet to be made available by Microsoft but it’s worthwhile looking at it in its current form.

For developers… here are some resources:

What is Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/whatisazure.mspx

Demos and samples:

Updated MMC for .Net Services: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureManagementTools

Windows Azure MMC (yet to be published): http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazuremmc

Bid Now Sample: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample

Contoso Cycles (yet to be published): http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/contosocycles

Fluffy Photos: http://phluffyfotos.codeplex.com/

Just installed BizTalk on my Vista notebook. Here are some information that may help:

My BizTalk’s edition – BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (Developer edition)

Operating System – Windows Vista Ultimate

The installation process is as seamless as it was for previous editions of BizTalk Server 2006. Only important point to remember is you download the prerequisite cab file for Vista. You may be in habit of using previously downloaded prerequisite cab file. Setup will automatically download the CAB file (BtsRedistVistaEN32.cab) if you are connected to internet.

After installation of BTS R2, the configuration UI appeared. I selected “Basic Configuration”, provided credentials, SQL Server location and clicked “Configure” button. All possible components were configured successfully. After configuration, I tested BTS with few samples and it works fine!

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 prerequisite for Vista can be downloaded manually from:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81432

System requirement for BizTalk Server R2 is documented at following page but I don’t know why information for Vista has been ignored. I don’t see Vista in the list of supported operating system.

http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/system-requirements.aspx

However, BizTalk R2 works absolutely fine on Vista. I could also find another document published by Microsoft for installation and configuration guide on Windows Vista.

You can download the installation and configuration guide of BizTalk Server R2 for respective operating systems from:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=DF2E8A88-FB23-49A4-9AC7-D17F72517D12&displaylang=en

I am installing SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition on VISTA Ultimate and noticed that only client components are being installed. Setup shows an option to install “Server components” but never installs!

However, the setup does give a warning for “SQL Server Edition Operating System Compatibility”.

Solution: install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition.

Developer edition do not give operating system compatibility warning!

Isn’t this amazing? Students can now download Microsoft development products for free!!!

A fantastic initiative by Microsoft to enable students with development tools at no cost! The initiative was announced by Bill Gates at IIT, Delhi, India.

Bill Gates announced this first in February for US and few other countries. By end of this year the program should cover most major countries.

DreamSpark is a program set up by Microsoft to provide students with software design and development tools at no charge. The program was originally directed at college students, but now it has been expanded to include high school students.

Free softwares/products includes:

-          Visual Studio 2008 (Professional Edition)

-          SQL Server 2005 (Developer Edition)

-          Visual Studio 2005 (Professional Edition)

-          Many more…

List of developer tools available to students at no charge:

http://www.dreamsparkindia.com/dreamspark/GetDreamTools.aspx

Students should check http://channel8.msdn.com  for regularly posted updates to see when Microsoft DreamSpark will be available to them.

DreamSpark Portal:

http://www.dreamsparkindia.com/dreamspark/

Microsoft News Release:

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-18GSDPR.mspx

FAQs:

http://www.dreamsparkindia.com/dreamspark/FAQ.aspx

In today’s heterogeneous computing environments and with the emergence of Web services and service-oriented architectures, interoperability has become a critical business and IT need.

Microsoft is joining the AMQP Working Group at the request of its members, including several of Microsoft’s customers in the financial services industry, in order to support the development of an open industry standard for ubiquitous messaging.

Read more at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-24AMQPPR.mspx

AMQP Working Group includes Cisco, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Red Hat and many more major institutions and corporates.

Read more about AMQP Working Group at: http://jira.amqp.org/confluence/display/AMQP/AMQP+Working+Group

More information about Microsoft’s interoperability efforts can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/interop

The CSD/BizTalk Product Group is conducting a survey to assess customer usage of the Business Rules Engine (BRE). 

This is an opportunity for BizTalk Server BRE users to provide inputs to what they would like to see in coming versions.

Survey link: https://live.datstat.com/MSCSD-Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=BRE_Usage_Survey_Blog