If you need to create xml schema and you already have a sample xml file, you can have BizTalk generate schema for you. You can do this by: 1. Right click your BizTalk project 2. Add -> Add Generated Items 3. Select "Generate Schemas" 4. New dialog opens. You need to select what kind of input document you will provide (default is dtd). You will want you use "Well formed XML", but this is not enabled by default BizTalk installation. To enable this go to you BizTalk installation folder (e.g C:\Program...

I've just started working on a BAM project, so I started reading tutorials. Everyone was mentioning Excel add-in. I thought that it was an installation that you download from Microsoft's website, but after spending couple of hours searching for this add-in I realized it's just a plain Excel file BAM.xls located in \Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\Tracking (depends in which folder you installed BizTalk) that you need to copy somewhere else, because it's read-only. I felt so stupid! I hope...

Just finished upgrading our development & testing server to BizTalk 2006. There were no problems. Just be sure to backup master database and all the BizTalk databases, otherwise you might lose everything if something goes wrong. Before upgrading, make sure you install: 1. Internet Information Services 6.0 2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 4 3. SQLXML 3.0 with Service Pack3 4. SQL Notification Services with Service Pack1 5. Windows SharePoint...