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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

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

Cleanup BizTalk Servers MgmtDb
24 February 09 09:27 PM | Johan Hedberg | 2 comment(s)

I've previously blogged about cleaning (emptying) the MsgBox database , something that can be useful in some scenarios, like development and test. While looking for something else the other day I found information about an equally useful procedure...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance

Event log service is unavailable issue
21 December 08 01:50 PM | Johan Hedberg | 5 comment(s)

I thought I'd blog about this issue I had, since it was in the end so easy to solve, but I had a hard time finding a good description of both my specific problem and any resolution. I am a bit ashamed to say that I got quite creative before trying...

Filed under: General, Maintenance, Configuration, Monitoring

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

WCF issue after installing updates
17 April 08 09:32 PM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

After installing updates this past night our webservers began exhibiting odd behaviour. All our Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services began returning 405 Method Not Allowed. I'm not sure which patch was responsible for causing this, but...

Filed under: Maintenance, WCF, Configuration

Linklist: Installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 for BizTalk
15 April 08 08:31 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

The aim of this linklist is to keep track of the links and locations I used to download and install Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Management Packs for BizTalk, and thus can be used by others for the same purpose. System Center Operations Manager...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, Links, Monitoring

How-to: Use BizTalkMgmtDb to get referenced assemblies
26 January 08 08:46 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

Sometimes when you are trying to remove an assembly from within the Administration Console you get and error saying that it's being used. Most often you'll get information on where it's being used at the same time, but not always. These queries...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, SQL

Clean up the MsgBox
13 December 07 09:00 PM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

Do you sometimes end up with instances in the admin console that just wont go away? That are pending to be suspended, but doesn't seem to ever get there. I did just the other day. To solve this I used the SQL way of terminating these messages , which...

Filed under: BizTalk, Maintenance, SQL