I recently worked on a pilot to access RPG programs on an IBM AS/400 from BizTalk Server 2006. We used the new Host Applications adapter which is included with the Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems (which is available for free as long as you have a BizTalk Server 2006 license.) The pilot went smoother than I thought it would and it was pretty easy for the most part. We did run into a few issues which I will cover in this post. Before I cover the issues though, I would like to provide some...

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Recently I had to configure a BizTalk 2006 multi-server environment that someone else had built out (installed BizTalk, SQL, prerequisites, etc.) When running the BizTalk configuration tool I would get the following error: "BizTalk 2006 Configuration: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation Services (DTS) for BAM Archiving is not installed on the local machine. Please install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. (Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.CfgE... ... Additional information:...

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting on Techniques for Reusable Business Processes with BizTalk Server at the first ever Twin Cities Code Camp. I covered some basic techniques for making business processes more reusable including: Canonical Schemas and Receive Port Maps Multiple Receive Locations Calling out to .NET Components in Orchestrations Send Port Groups BRE Usage Role Links It is pretty basic BizTalk stuff for people that have worked with BizTalk for a while but I still had a good...

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I previously posted here about 2 batch files for starting and stop BizTalk 2004 and SQL Server 2000 services. The ones in this post, below, are for BizTalk 2006 and SQL Server 2005. I use these for quickly and easily reducing memory usage (usually when I need to use VPC). Enjoy! StartBTSServices: net start MSSQLServernet start SQLSERVERAGENTnet start MSSQLServerOLAPServicenet start NS$BAMAlertsnet start SQLBrowsernet start msftesqlnet start MsDtsServernet start ReportServernet start MSDTCnet start...

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