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Cleaning up BizTalk database backups
10 November 09 09:39 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

Everyone knows (read that as: should know ;) that enabling the BizTalk jobs “Backup BizTalk Server” and “DTA Purge and Archive” is a good thing. Even on simple test machines, and perhaps (preferably) even on your developer laptop. What happens some times...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, Administration

Strange BizTalk WMI behavior (curious BizTalk SQL)
25 October 09 03:22 PM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

This week a co-worker raised an issue with a WMI query where he did a simple query for an orchestrations messages, and for some reason not all of them were returned. This behavior exists on both 2006 R2 and 2009, and thus most likely on 2006 as well....

Filed under: BizTalk, WMI, Administration

BizTalk Server 2009 Installation Errors
20 August 09 09:29 PM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

I just thought I’d mention these install errors since I’ve gotten them now on several occasion when installing BizTalk Server 2009 Enterprise 64-bit Single Sign On Master Secret Server on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 (although I doubt the last...

Filed under: 64-bit, Administration, BizTalk Server 2009, Installation

Captcha updated – Email re-enabled
15 August 09 07:26 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

Just a short note and apology to those that have used the contact form in the last few weeks. While we have been working to find a suitable method to stop spam we have disabled the email functionality altogether – which has affected the contact form as...

Filed under: Blogging, Administration

Redeploying a schema assembly…
15 August 09 05:01 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

If I ask you upfront: Can I redeploy an assembly to BizTalk (that contains a schema) that is referenced by (and used in) another assembly? – What would you say? Some of you might say yes, some might say no. And you’d both be right! It all depends on what...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, Administration

April post-swebug-event resources, part 1
21 April 09 11:14 PM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

Slides for last wednesdays session with Brian Loesgen and Alan Smith – Development & Administration Best Practices are available through the BizTalk User Group Sweden site here . Check the lower right corner downloads. UPDATE: Video available here...

Filed under: Webcast, Administration, Usergroup, Presentation, BizTalk Server 2009, Development

A BizTalk Developers approach to Dublin
30 October 08 12:57 AM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

Relax. Grab a beer (a Guiness perhaps). Dublin , the application server role extension to WAS/IIS, is to be released roughly three months after Visual Studio 2010, so somewhere around 1,5-2 years from now. There is still time to come to grips with it...

Filed under: BizTalk, Conference, Administration, PDC

BizTalk database sizing statistics
07 May 08 09:15 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

In the hope that this might help someone who is tasked to estimate the size of BizTalk Server 2006 databases, I'm offering a few statistics. These statistics comes from an engagement that uses very few orchestrations and more or less does messaging...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, Administration, Databases

BizTalk Administration Tutorials
27 April 08 11:47 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

This post is for those of you who are administrators rather then developers, and don't keep track of the latest downloads around BizTalk . Microsoft has, at the same time that they released a revised version of the developer centric tutorials , released...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, Readings, Configuration, Monitoring, Learning, Administration