Integrating to the max...BizTalk Style

  Ok, lets start with a small post….a BizTalk 2010 update is released ( CU4 ). The approach might be to install it when you have issues, although there seems to some minor changes on EDI handling, please note the following trivial changes; 2672494 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2672494/ ) FIX: The BizTalk Server MessageBox database grows very large because records are not cleared in the EqualsPredicate2ndPass table in BizTalk Server 2010 2662532 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2662532/ ) FIX: A "Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)" job on BizTalk Server 2010 fails when you try to back up a custom database. Summary Although the update might be not suited for you due to company policy of only installing Service Packs,you should at least check out if the MessageBox database is indeed very large and all jobs are running smoothly!   Cheers, Sander

In our project we came to the conclusion that caching would be a nice feature and that a distributed implementation would be best suited. We looked at the various offerings (NCache, MemCached, Custom implementation, App Fabric). As AppFabric is the most compelling, I will elaborate on this one in detail; Architecture Requirements / Concerns Windows Enterprise Server Important Windows Server AppFabric cache hosts should be dedicated to the caching service, which means that those servers are not also used as application, web, or database servers. It is possible to use non-dedicated cache servers in a cluster, but this scenario is not supported . Despite this policy, if you decide to use non-dedicated cache hosts, make sure to properly estimate and test the configuration for each cache host to allow enough memory and network resources for both the caching service and all other services on the machines. Also understand that spikes in processor and network utilization by oth...

  Ok, lets start with a small post….a BizTalk 2010 update is released ( CU4 ). The approach might be to install it when you have issues, although there seems to some minor changes on EDI handling, please not the following trivial changes; 2672494 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2672494/ ) FIX: The BizTalk Server MessageBox database grows very large because records are not cleared in the EqualsPredicate2ndPass table in BizTalk Server 2010 2662532 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2662532/ ) FIX: A "Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb)" job on BizTalk Server 2010 fails when you try to back up a custom database. Summary Although the update might be not suited for you due to company policy of only installing Service Package,you should at least check out if the MessageBox database is indeed very large and all jobs are running smoothly!   Cheers, Sander

  After a long period being involved in several time-consuming projects its now more manageable to an extent that I actually see that some free time will come and my pending blog items can be posted….as its now half past 4 am and am awake somehow…I figured…lets start right away with the first. In the last months I’ve gathered several topics to blog about based on some in-depth experiences, and have some 21 pending blog items . My promise is that I will blog all of them!! (although, no delivery date guaranteed ). Regards, Sander.