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Two days ago I took BizTalk exam and passed it. My socre was 737 (700 is required for passing). Test contained 40 questions. It was my first Microsoft exam, and I can say it was pretty hard. I've been studying quite hard. Mostly I used BizTalk 2004 Unleashed" which is a great learning resource. Surely you are wondering what kind of questions are in the test ? (that's what I was looking on blogs, but couldn't find too much information). So I can tell you that there are some pretty easy questions (too...

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...

We had a perticulary nasty bug with BizTalk 2004. When we applied map as an inbound map, parser stripes whitespace. We tried every possible solution! Building custom xslt with xml:preserve, pad characters,... But when you do the same transformation inside orchestration that problem doesn't occur ! Strange! Maybe you have some experiances with this

You can download this tool to help you debug orchestrations:http://www.s... You can put an expression shape in your orchestration designer and write some information (by using System.Diagnostics.Debug.Wr... out that will be catched by this tool. For example: System.Diagnostics.Debug.Wr

I was installing BizTalk on Win XP sp2 machine when I got this message. I didn't understand what it meant. Then I found the solution on the net. Here is the procedure: 1. Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc2. Click Computer Configuration3. Click Administrative Templates4. Click System5. Click Remote Procedure Calls6. Click on RPC Endpoint Mapper Client Authentication7. A new window opens. Enable this service. That's it! Also make sure that your firewall and antivirus are TURNED OFF BEFORE you start...