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The best! If you are trying to admin/operate/trouble shoot a BizTalk server
The message box viewer gives an excellent overview of BizTalk solution including custom tweaks against some "less" documented features. This helped me diagnose an exceptionally high load after we created additional host instances where someone had actually increased biztalk polling interval (but hadn't documented this so it was unknown to me). http://blogs.technet.com/jp... -Jennifer Zouak...
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Posted On Monday, November 26, 2007 10:26 AM | Feedback (0)

Rude FAQ: BizTalk Rules Engine (Should I use BRE)
I have the pleasure recently, after working with BizTalk since 2001, of actually implementing a solution using the business rules engine aka BRE as hosted by a BizTalk Orchestration. While the "insight" is fresh, I though I'd jot down my observations. This may be of interest to you if you are evaluating this for use within your solution/organization. BRE uses a different paradigm than typical coding. Now if you are considering BizTalk, then you are probably aware of this already. But even so, although...
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Posted On Monday, February 26, 2007 9:12 AM | Feedback (4)

Error: Unexpected event ("document_start") in state "processing_empty_document".
BizTalk error messages are notoriously opaque. I decided to start recording my translations and solutions for these messages because... well because I keep encountering the same ones time and again, my mental buffer is full, and flipping through loads of notes is no longer fun. Error: Unexpected event ("document_start") in state "processing_empty_document". Scenario: This advice applies if you receive this error during receive pipeline xml disassembly processing, and you are using an envelope schema....
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Posted On Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:58 AM | Feedback (1)