BizTalk in Action! Martin Rienstra en Sijmen Koffeman Microsoft B.V.

Agenda BizTalk® Server 2004 Update Enquête Tips & Tricks Tools, SP1, … ‘End to End’ demo Tips & Tricks

Adapter Wizard / Migration Overview Wizard for creating custom send, receive, request-response and solicit-response adapters using the common adapter base classes and interfaces Features Supports in- and out-of-process adapters Define handler (BTS Admin MMC) and endpoint (BTS Explorer Port) properties Includes batch processing and SSO integration code snippets Generates C# or VB.NET (coming soon) Download includes a Step-by-Step Whitepaper and Sample Socket Adapter Download http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=d3ac121c-8963-4735-b5e1-fc83b02f57c1 Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapter Migration Toolkit (BizTalk AMT) Migrating BizTalk 2002 custom components to BizTalk 2004 AMT allows reusing BizTalk 2002 custom components (AICs, preprocessors) in BizTalk 2004 environment.

Pipeline Component Wizard Overview Wizard to quickly build custom pipeline components Features Create send/receive/both components Identify which pipeline stages are supported Generates C# or VB.NET Download http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=1d4f7d6b-7d27-4f05-a8ee-48cfcd5abf4a

Pipeline Testing Tools Usage Pipeline.exe Accepts XSD schemas and input message(s) Runs a send or receive pipeline Produces output document(s) FFAsm.exe Executes the flat file assembler component Emulates a send pipeline that serializes FFDasm.exe Executes the flat file disassembler component Emulates a receive pipeline that parses XMLAsm.exe Executes the XML assembler component Emulates a send pipeline that serializes, assembles and envelopes XMLDasm.exe Executes the XML disassembler component Emulates a receive pipeline that parses, disassembles and un-envelopes DSDump.exe Enables you to dump the lightweight in-memory document schema structure of one or more XSD schema(s) Good for determining parsing errors * Pipeline testing tools are available as part of the BizTalk SDK: C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Utilities\PipelineTools

BizTalk Assembly Viewer BizTalk Assembly Viewer (in DevTools) Register this windows explorer extension: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\Developer Tools\BtsAsmExt.dll" View types in BizTalk assemblies and attributes Add and remove assemblies from the GAC View -> Explorer Bar -> BizTalk Server Search

BizTalk Subscription Viewer BizTalk Subscription Viewer (in SDK) Run the utility from here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Utilities\BTSSubscriptionViewer.exe Choose Main -> Load from menu Shows Subscribers (Orchestrations and Send Ports) to Published Items in the MessageBox Top Grid: List of All Subscribers Bottom: Filter Expression for Selected Subscription Types of Subscribers: EPM, XLANG and <GUID>

BizTalk Management Tool Overview Tool for managing BizTalk deployment, configuration and administration tasks outside of Visual Studio, MMC and HAT Features View/configure/restart/bind assemblies, ports and hosts Aggressive mode for (un)deploying dependent assemblies Suspend/resume/terminate/save multiple messages outside of HAT Import/export all configuration data Download http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=992ca223-553c-475a-ac87-da7ae2c9016a

BizTalk Configuration Documenter UK SDC BizTalk 2004 Documenter Documents BizTalkMgmtDb artifacts Creates a compiled CHM help file Requires BizTalk 2004 and .NET Fx 1.1 GUI or Command Line Parameters /o: Output Folder /s: BizTalk SQL Server /d: BizTalk Management Database /show: Show CHM Output Command Line Example Microsoft.Sdc.BiztalkDocumenter.exe /o:C:\Temp /s:Svr01 /d:BizTalkMgmtDb Download http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=41c1faa9-13a6-478b-af81-d87ca946a222

BizTalk Performance Monitor Counters BizTalk: Messaging Documents processed, received or suspended (/sec) BizTalk: TDDS Batches, events or records being processed (or committed) Total batches, events, failed batches, failed events or records XLANG/s Orchestrations Database transactions (/sec) Dehydratable, dehydrating, idle, runnable or running orchestrations Orchestrations completed, created, dehydrated, discarded, rehydrated, resident-in-memory or suspended (/sec) Persistence points (/sec) Transactional scopes aborted, committed or compensated (/sec) SP1 adds: Active receive locations Active receive threads Active send messages Active send threads Documents resubmitted Pending receive batches Pending transmitted messages Request/Response timeouts Throttled receive batches

BizTalk Performance Setting Tool Executable SvcClassSettings.exe Database - Table Modified BizTalkMgmtDb - adm_ServiceClass Service Class Names XLANG/s Messaging InProcess MSMQT Messaging Isolated Settings LowWatermark, HighWatermark LowMemorymark, HighMemorymark LowSessionmark, HighSessionmark Max Receive Interval Download http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=31290

BizTalk® Server 2004 Update Adapter Update: Microsoft MQSeries Adapter MSMQ Adapter WSE Adapter MySAP Adapter GotDotNet Sharepoint Adapter POP3 OleDb SP1 New features FTP throttling IPipelineContextEx Interface Improved SQL Adapter Error Messages Using GB18030 Characters (msgbox_cleanup_logic.sql) Blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo Bloggers guide to BizTalk Product update Documentation SDK Tutorial

Scenario Enquête Beoordelen Archief PO Approval Supplier

Scenario - details B R E 2 3 4 1 BizTalk Orchestration Windows Sharepoint Services 5 6 7 1 .. 7 E:\Demo\Test BAM

Solution artifacts

Schema AntwoordID Naam Wat vond je ervan? BizTalk® Server ervaring? Uitstekend, zeer waardevol Mwah, wel aardig Slecht, heb ik niks aan BizTalk® Server ervaring? Ja Nee Commentaar Vrije tekst Bruikbaar

The Proces Windows SharePoint Services

Scenario - details B R E 2 3 4 1 BizTalk Orchestration Windows Sharepoint Services 5 6 7 1 .. 7 E:\Demo\Test BAM

Business Activity Monitoring INFORMATION WORKER Needs real-time visibility in a familiar user interface BUSINESS ANALYST Analyzes information & Defines what data and will be presented and how Observation Model Identifies KPIs Data Of Interest DEVELOPER Knows how to get the data BAM Infrastructure Maps KPIs to Orchestration

Tips & Tricks Cache refresh Isolated hosts SQL Agent should be running Development, e.g. 5 seconds Isolated hosts Reset host, not just BizTalk SQL Agent should be running Or else … Backup Job configured SQL data files tend to grow …

Links MSDN Integration Patterns http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/intpatt.asp Team Development with Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_rm.asp

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