Filed under: Biztalk 2004, Biztalk 2006, Configuration, Examples | Tags: Biztalk Server 2004, BizTalk Server 2006, Configuration, Correlation, Debugging, Heath and Activity Tracking, Monitor, Tracking, Tutorial
You can access an attribute or element in two different ways within Biztalk using ‘Distinguished Fields’ and ‘Promoted Properties’. A basic rule for ‘which to use’ would be: Always use a Distinguished Field, unless you need to route, track, or correlate on the content, then use promoted fields. (more…)
Filed under: Biztalk 2004 | Tags: BizTalk, BizTalk Server 2006, BTSNTSVS.exe, EDI, Heath and Activity Tracking, Schema
When you’re sending EDI messages with Biztalk 2006 and you need to modify one of the standard edi message, just modify the schema for your needs. Add new enumerations, change the sequence and rename the elements, but always change the namespace. So you can work with the normal (original) schema and the custom schema at the same time / server. (more…)
Filed under: Biztalk 2004, Monitoring Biztalk | Tags: BizTalk, Biztalk Server 2004, HAT, Heath and Activity Tracking, Monitor, Tracking
If you like to clean up the tracking database of Biztalk Server 2004, you can just do this by running some little queries.
Open Query Analyzer and connect to the (Biztalk Tracking) BizTalkDTADb database. Then open the file called Purge_DTADB.sql in the next directory: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Samples\Admin\Database Maintenance”. Run this script (F5) and this script will create a storedprocedure called ‘dtasp_PruneTrackingDatabase’. This sp takes only a single parameter called: @PruneBeforeDate. Executing this SP causes the tracking data to be purged that was older then the given date (more…)
Filed under: Biztalk 2004, Monitoring Biztalk | Tags: BizTalk, Biztalk Server 2004, HAT, Heath and Activity Tracking, Monitor, MSDN, Tracking
Using the Health and Activiy Tracking tool from Microsoft (HAT from now on) is handy for everyone. It provides some kind of viewability in the ‘non-GUIworld’ of Biztalk
System administrators can track the health of the BizTalk implementation, determine bottlenecks, and monitor the BizTalk environment. They can view the technical details of a particular orchestration, pipeline, or message instance, as well as see the message flow of a particular message that enters the system. (more…)
