8/28/2008 Blog Migration - blog engine change, URL change, hosting provider change and Face lift.

Posted at: 8/28/2008 at 11:58 AM by saravana
Below table summarizes the undergone changes. The objective is NOT to cause any disruption to blog readers(subscribers), try to preserve the search engine ranking and migrate the URL to new home safely.  Its not a trivial task, so I took some time to put this article, so that it can help few pe... [More]

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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, ... [More]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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