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The rogue agent that brought BizTalk to its knees
02 January 12 10:16 PM | Johan Hedberg

To help others that might find themselves in a similar situation I am posting this odd experience we had with a BizTalk environment during the fall of 2011. We had a pretty standard setup with good hardware to back it up all the way, set up after best...

Filed under: BizTalk, Performance

PAL not working with restricted account
10 September 08 04:29 PM | Johan Hedberg

Just thought I'd post this since I couldn't find a concise hit myself when searching for it. I'm using the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool in a restricted environment where my default user isn't an administrator. In certain scenarios...

Filed under: BizTalk, Performance, PAL

BAM Tracking and Failed Messages, and a new issue of BizTalk HotRod
22 May 08 09:47 PM | Johan Hedberg

Mikael Håkansson has a post called How to Replace Tracking with BAM in BizTalk that features a performance comparison he made for disabling global tracking in BizTalk Server 2006 and how that would look if you replaced that with BAM - in hard figures...

Filed under: BizTalk, Performance, BAM, Readings, Monitoring

Caching database functoid and throttling
28 April 08 09:54 PM | Johan Hedberg

In case you haven't seen the Blogical.Shared.Functoids .ExecuteQuery, and the feature post at Mikael Håkanssons blog , it's a cache enabled database lookup functoid - a revised version of a functoid that we have successfully used on previous projects...

Filed under: BizTalk, Performance, Functoids

I've got 4GB, or do I?
27 March 08 09:29 PM | Johan Hedberg | 2 comment(s)

When installing Windows Vista SP1 for your 32-bit operating system you may be fooled into believing that you do in fact have more than 3GB of memory and that the operating system is taking advantage of that. In pre SP1 installs only 3GB will be detected...

Filed under: General, Performance, Configuration

Custom Pipeline Components Development Best Practices
02 January 08 12:05 AM | Johan Hedberg | 4 comment(s)

There is much to be said about pipeline component development. Online, in the helpfiles, in books there are step by step guidance on how to build pipeline components of different types (Assembers, Dissassemblers, General Purpose etc.). I'm not going...

Filed under: BizTalk, Pipeline Components, Performance

Visualizing the benefit of forwardonly streaming in custom pipeline components
20 December 07 09:56 PM | Johan Hedberg | 7 comment(s)

When doing custom pipeline component development you need to be aware of the forward-only streaming best practice. In short this means developing your pipeline components so that they do their logic either as a custom stream implementation or by reacting...

Filed under: BizTalk, Pipeline Components, Performance