BizTalk Business Activity Monitoring Management Utility Tool
Administrators of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) definitions use the out-of-the-box BAM Management utility tool (BM.exe) to manage and maintain all aspects of the BAM infrastructure. You can use the BAM utility to perform the following tasks: You can learn more about this command-line tool in one of my previous posts: BAM Management Utility Commands –… Read More »
BizTalk Server SSO Application Configuration Web Tool
It’s been some time since I created the BizTalk Server SSO Application Configuration tool. The tool is available for several versions of BizTalk Server. It provides the ability to add and manage applications, add and manage key-value pairs in the SSO database, and import and export application configurations to be deployed to different environments. However, although… Read More »
BizTalk Server WCF-Loopback Adapter
Unfortunately, some good BizTalk Server resources have disappeared over the years, and they are no longer available. A lot of these resources are custom adapters. One of these adapters was the BizTalk WCF Loopback Adapter, initially developed by Synthesis Consulting (I think), which provided the source code back then. What is the WCF-Loopback Adapter? The… Read More »
BizTalk Server 2016 Error: The redistributable cab file does not have a valid signature
This week, during a BizTalk Server 2016 installation – yes, I know it wasn’t my choice, otherwise, it was a BizTalk Server 2020 – I got for the very first time an issue regarding the Redistributable CAB file. Of course, during the installation process, you can choose “Automatically install the redistributable prerequisites from the web”,… Read More »
BizTalk Server 2016: How to configure the MQ Series Adapter for low latency scenarios whitepaper
Legacy Systems and IBM MQ Integration Historically, legacy systems still play a critical role in many organizations. IBM MQ is a well‑known family of message‑oriented middleware products that IBM first introduced in December 1993. Initially, IBM released the product under the name MQSeries. Later, in 2002, IBM renamed it WebSphere MQ to align it with… Read More »
BizTalk Server: Automation Deployment with Azure DevOps – Create a build agent
Challenges of Deploying BizTalk Server Solutions Deploying BizTalk Server solutions across multiple environments has never been a trivial task. The level of complexity often depends on how advanced the solution is and how many artifacts it includes. Over the years, teams have used several approaches to deploy BizTalk artifacts across environments. Common BizTalk Deployment Approaches… Read More »
BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter 7.0.2 is now available for BizTalk Server 2016
A few days ago, I released the latest version of the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter optimized for BizTalk Server 2020. Today, I merged the changes and improvements made on that version and made it available for BizTalk Server 2016. What is new? New schedule capabilities: BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter The BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter works… Read More »
Notes From The Road: 2020 Year In Review
I sincerely believe that humankind has faced worse years than in 2020. Nevertheless, this was probably the most challenging, exhausting, and difficult year of our generation. When the pandemic hit, and we were forced to be locked down at home, everything changed, and we had to struggle between: Briefly and in the face of adversity,… Read More »
BizTalk Server Configuration error: Cannot create file ‘C:\path\name.mdf’ because it already exists. Change the file path or the file name, and retry the operation
As the learning process’s path, all my interns or new team members, regardless of what technologies they will be using more, one of the first things they will do is create a BizTalk Server development environment from scratch. Yes, all my team members will have skills in all Integration technologies, BizTalk Server, Logic Apps, Service… Read More »
