BizTalk 2009 migration to 64-bit and the MQSC Adapter
The migration from BizTalk 2006 R2 to BizTalk 2009 was a fairly smooth one, untill we faced an issue that the MQSC Adapter was not working on the 64bit environment. We tried to define a 64-bit host and run the adapter inside this host, this however did not proved to be the solution; After browsing through the MSDN pages we found that it just wasn’t going to be a 9till5 workday; “Only x86 (32-bit) Windows operating systems that are supported by BizTalk Server 2006 are supported by the MQSC Adapter. WebSphere MQ on Windows is not supported on 64-bit Windows operating systems. This means that the MQSC Adapter is not supported on either X64 (64-bit) Windows or a 32-bit BizTalk Host Instance on x64.” ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa705007(BTS.10).aspx ) The setup we had previously used was; - BizTalk 2006 R2 32-bit / MQ Client 6.2.5 + SSL / MQSC Adapter “IBM WebSphere MQ Client 5.3 with CSD10, or IBM Websphere MQ Client 6.0 with Fix Pack 6.0.1.1.” ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/e...