8/27/2008 Renaming your BizTalk machine

Posted at: 8/27/2008 at 6:04 PM by saravana
Anyone who been working on BizTalk server long enough will know renaming a BizTalk machine is not a trivial task. It always involves quite a bit of manual work, things like Un-configure the existing setting either using the UI or ConfigFramework /U switch Deleting the Databases manually, Re-Confi... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
 
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

8/26/2008 Multiple Isolated Host (Host Instances) - Multiple Virtual directories - different adapters, what are the rules?

Posted at: 8/26/2008 at 3:02 PM by saravana
If your BizTalk solution is mainly relying on HTTP/SOAP adapter (we are still in BTS 2006 - no WCF yet), you'll soon see weird errors popping up due to BizTalk isolated host instances / IIS Application pool  configuration. The most common one you'll encounter is this The Messagin... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags: | |  Categories: BizTalk General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

8/13/2008 How to encrypt sections within BtsNtsvc.exe.config file?

Posted at: 8/13/2008 at 7:35 AM by saravana
It’s one of the common requirements in some of the projects I've worked on to put some kind of configuration information in the BizTalk config file, things like appSettings, connectionString etc. Majority of the time it will be ok to leave the value in plain text inside the xml based config file (fo... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags: |  Categories: BizTalk General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

8/11/2008 Print Screen on MacBook - BootCamp

Posted at: 8/11/2008 at 11:40 AM by saravana
I became a full time user of MacBook running Windows Vista using BootCamp (Version 2.0) for a while now. One of the issue I came across recently is trying to find out the equivalent of "print screen" Key, I don't need to emphasis on the importance of this. According to the document, ... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags: |  Categories: General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

8/11/2008 BizTalk Config file and 32bit-64bit host instances mixed server.

Posted at: 8/11/2008 at 11:34 AM by saravana
When you install 64 bit version of BizTalk sever, the application installation folder will have 2 BizTalk configuration files. 1. BtsNTSvc.exe.config, and 2. BtsNTSvc64.exe.config. Nowadays most of the production BizTalk servers will be running on 64 bit versions of software (Opera... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags:  Categories: BizTalk General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

7/18/2008 Our first UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting

Posted at: 7/18/2008 at 11:19 AM by saravana
Last night we had our first UK SOA/BPM user group meeting held at Microsoft office in London Victoria. Thanks goes to Jonathan Woodward, Michael Stephenson , Andy James for organising this. It was a good turn around for the first meeting, around 30 people. It's good to get in touch with some o... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags:  Categories: General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

7/18/2008 How can I find the installed hotfixes on the server/workstation?

Posted at: 7/18/2008 at 9:47 AM by saravana
Looks like a silly question, but recently I struggled to find the installed hot fixes on our server. We install certain hotfixes on all of our BizTalk server. One of the critical ones is http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943165 to solve the high CPU usage on a 64 bit machine. Like any other norma... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags:  Categories: BizTalk General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

7/8/2008 ASP .NET 2.0 - IIS worker process terminating unexpectedly. Event ID: 1009 - The process exit code was '0xc0000005'

Posted at: 7/8/2008 at 10:49 PM by saravana
I'm in the process of migrating biztalk247.com to a new hosting provider. After deploying the application, I started doing the performance testing using Visual Studio Web/Load test features. I configured the IIS Application Pool to have a web garden (more than one worker process w3wp.exe) to s... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags:  Categories: ASP .NET
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(0) | Comments RSS

7/4/2008 MVP Year - #2

Posted at: 7/4/2008 at 9:37 AM by saravana
I'm delighted to say I been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for second year in a row. My first MVP year was awesome, its hard to believe the level of benefits you get from Microsoft for being an MVP. I'll say the highlight of my award year was participating in the "... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags:  Categories: MVP
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(2) | Comments RSS

6/30/2008 Any recommendation for Windows 2003-ASP .NET hosting?

Posted at: 6/30/2008 at 11:00 AM by saravana
Hi All, In the past few months I been hit with so many technical problems running biztalk 24 * 7.com. I'm currently with 1and1 for my hosting, I been with them for past few years now. Everything is well and good until you hit a problem, but once you got some you are in real trouble. ... [More]

Be the first to rate this post

  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Tags:  Categories: General
Actions: Email this article Email | Kick it! | DZone it! | Save to del.icio.us | Technorati Links
Post Information: Permanent LinkPermalink | CommentsComments(3) | Comments RSS