November 2005 Entries
At the end of the last post I noted that there's a bug in BizTalk's side-by-side deployment of convoy orchestrations, and once it's fixed then I'd provide a convoy sample. It's now been fixed by a post-SP1 hotfix, and it will enable you to side-by-side deploy the following example: You can download the source here, which includes a readme.txt giving you full instructions on how to extract, compile, deploy and execute it, very similar to the previous post but this time for convoy orchestrations with...
Anyone tried to get side-by-side deployment to work in BizTalk 2004? Anyone found any examples? I know I couldn't, so here's my attempt at it. The business scenario is as follows: A long-running orchestration instance version 1.0.0.0 is awaiting a correlating response from a business partner - in the case of my client this will typically take 4 to 6 weeks The orchestration is upgraded to version 1.1.0.0, side-by-side with version 1.0.0.0 New orchestration instances should instantiate under the new...
When migrating the solution from a single server to a multi-server staging environment, my client experienced problems with MSMQT service instance times running into minutes. We were using an Alteon hardware load balancer, but all the documentation only mentioned using NLB - I could find nothing that confirmed or denied that it was possible to use anything other than NLB. An example of this woolliness is KB 898702 which states you can try using NAT devices but they're not officially supported. Anyway,...
When you add the MSMQT adapter, the host name it uses is the default host at the time - this will usually be BizTalkServerApplication - and once you've selected it, it seems you can never change it. So if you want a separate host for your MSMQT adapter, before you add the MSMQT adapter to your server group, create a host called MSMQT_host (or whatever naming convention you're using for your hosts) and set it as the default host. Now add the MSMQT adapter, and it will run under this host. Then, reselect...
I promised myself I was never gonna do one of these but the time has come to write down some of the things I had to google for England before I found the answers to, in the hope that I can save others from a similar fruitless fate. I hope they prove useful to you too - comments and corrections very welcome! Right, time to port the BlogLines posts across