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- Azure Data
- BizTalk
- BizTalk Automation
- BizTalk High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- BizTalk Migration
- ESB Toolkit
Check out my recent blogs –
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BizTalk Export MSI and Binding files to a Folder programmatically C#
Export MSI and Binding files to a Folder programmatically C#
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C# Programmatically Create BizTalk Host, Host Instances and Set Orchestration (Xlang) and Messaging Polling Interval (Performance Tuning)
Create BizTalk Host and Host Instances using C#. Also, update Polling Interval – Messaging and Orchestration for better performance and less polling on SQL Server
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BizTalk Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options
BizTalk Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options, benefits and limitations
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BizTalk Automated migration Tool
Watch the Video – BizTalk Automated Migration Tool Demo – Microsoft has recently released BizTalk 2020 with lots of new features and enhancements. There are many reasons to Migrate and can be broadly summarized as below – Avail Microsoft Support BizTalk 2016 Mainstream Support Ends – 1st November 2022 All other previous versions like 2013R2,…
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Bam Portal Error – Could not create Windows user token from the credentials specified in the config file. Error from the operating system ‘The user name or password is incorrect
Recently we changed password for our BizTalk Service Account and updated it BizTalk Host Instances, ENTSSO, APP Pools and Windows Task programmatically, refer below article for more details – https://prashantbiztalkblogs.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/programmatically-change-service-accounts-password-for-windows-services-iis-app-pools-and-scheduled-tasks/ However, BAM Portal started throwing below error – Server Error in ‘/BAM/BAMManagementService’ Application. Configuration Error – Description: An error occurred during the processing of a…
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PROGRAMMATICALLY Change service account’s password for Windows Services, iis app pools and scheduled tasks – C#
Nowadays it’s becoming a very common practice to frequently (half-yearly or quarterly) change password for all AD Service Accounts. It’s done as part of password compliance security guidelines, specially post GDPR implementations. Earlier for BizTalk environments we use to have “Never Expire Password” for service account and used it to configure BizTalk Services (like Host…
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Monitoring BizTalk Resources programmatically using C#
Programmatically monitor BizTalk Servers resources and services like Host Instances Status, any custom services like IIS, CPU usage, available disk space using C#
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Error – “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is required”- Specify an alternate source path
Hello Everyone. Recently, I wanted to setup BizTalk 2013 R2 system and while installing SQL Server 2014 I ran into below error – Error Message – “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is required”. Setup failed to find “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1” and therefore we can’t proceed with the installation. So, I…
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BizTalk Server Migration from 2010 to 2013 R2- Why & How
This document is intended to give an overview of why & how migration from BizTalk Server 2010 to 2013 R2 can be accomplished. It also attempts to aggregate known issues or probable challenges which can erupt during this process. Why to Migrate Mainstream Lifecycle of BizTalk 2010 is going to end on 1/12/2016 post which Microsoft…
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The map name was not provided and is required.
Recently while working on my first ESB POC I faced one strange issue. I was using BRE Resolver to resolve the map name for transformation, however I was getting below error. Error Message:- There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: “Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Itinerary.Pipelines.ItinerarySelectReceiveXml, Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Itinerary.Pipelines, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35” Source: “ESB Dispatcher” Receive Port: “GetEmpRequest_RP” URI: “E:\Prashant\POC\IN\*Copy*.xml” Reason:…
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Step by Step Guide to Install & Setup ESB Toolkit and Management Portal (Standalone Machine)
Installing and Configuring ESB Portal is really hectic & cumbersome task. I myself faced many roadblocks so thought to document it here, hope it’s useful. Pre-requisites: 1. Install Both VS 2012 and 2013 (BT 2013 Dev tools & ESB toolkit 2.3 requires some components from VS 2012 which I haven’t figure out yet if you…
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Very Strange behavior of XML Disassembler- Property Promotion not happening properly
While working on a pipeline component I encountered a very strange behavior of XML disassembler. I had few promoted properties which I was trying to access in a pipeline component in Validate stage after the execution of XML Disassembler. As we all know that the Pipelines are executed in sequential manner and the output of one…
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Implementing Correlation (Property Promotion) without any Common Element
I recently encountered a scenario where I had to implement correlation without any common element between the outgoing and incoming messages. Generally we implement correlation by Initializing and following correlation on the same element. Let’s come to our sample for better understanding. We have two schemas “Candidate” with fields as CandidateID, Name City and Status…
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Accessing Orchestration Variables in Maps
Many times we feel the need of using Orchestration Variables in Maps. But there is no straight forward way to achieve it. Below are the two ways through which we can achieve the same. Is to create a dummy schema with Elements which needs to be used in Maps. In below example I have created…
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How to Subscribe the Response Message of 2-Way (Request- Response) Send Port
Many times we have face a situation when we want to see the response received from a 2-way send port (request- response) after calling a web-service, performing some database operation etc. using two way send port. Normally such a scenario arises during testing phase. There are multiple ways to subscribe to the response message received…
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Implementing Scatter Gather Pattern in BizTalk using Self Correlation
This is one of the most widely used integration patterns and also the most asked interview question. In this pattern a huge message (also called batch file) is debatched and sent to multiple or single recipient which process these messages and sends a response or acknowledgement back. Later all these responses are gathered and collated…
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Getting Error in BizTalk Send Port- Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain
Recently one of my customer using BizTalk Server 2009 faced this issue, where he had SOAP adapter to connect to a web service but got the below error- Error: – “Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain” Cause: – The SOAP adapter runs in the IIS process space. If more than one Web service exists in the…
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