October 2004 Entries
Note: The GeeksWithBlogs editor seems to keep really messing with the formatting / XML of this post. If you spot any errors, please hit the Contact Me link above and I'll try to wrestle it into submission again :-) This entry may be useful to people confused by BizTalk's inclination to "ns0" at the drop of a hat :-) Someone asked me today why their XML document wasn't validating. They thought that it was because the schema was expecting messages with a default namespace of "uri:my-namespace" but...
Does anyone know the correct way to do this for BizTalk 2002?: I have BizTalk Server A using SQL Server B both located in domain C. I want to bring up new hardware, BizTalk Server Z using SQL Server Y located in domain X, to replace A B and C. I've seen plenty written about adding a new server to an existing group, or pointing a BTS install at a new database, but not one that does both in one step. Other than for tracking data, is there even any point in migrating the databases if we let the current...
Alan Smith has been a busy guy. As well as trying to dislodge Wayne Rooney from the Manchester Utd first team*, he's had time to put together a great collection of blog entries into a .chm file, "The Bloggers Guide To BizTalk". Check it out here. Great stuff Alan, I'm adding it to our standard dev build. I may send him a copy of this book though, unless the missing apostrophe appears in the title in the next release ;-) * OK OK I know, bad joke...
My colleague The Arch Hacker (dude, lame online name ;-), reports a supposed problem with DateTime.Now behaviour under BizTalk in that it seems to ignore daylight saving time here in the UK. A little bit of lateral thinking and I've suggested that what it's probably doing is returning a timezone-free time. This is because BizTalk is running under a service account that does not have a user profile, hence there is no timezone information available to .NET. It is probably just using the BIOS time and...