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Debug BizTalk Orchestration in Production Server

By Leo Wang | April 13, 2008

Murphy’s Law: if anything can go wrong, it will. If BizTalk orchestration instance in a production server does not behavior as you expect it, how do you diagnose the problem? Remember, attaching debugger to an orchestration instance is usually impossible in this case.
DebugView is one of my favorite tools for troubleshooting issues in production environment. [...]

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Deploy BizTalk policy using command line tool

By Leo Wang | February 13, 2008

As I discussed in my previous blog, manually deploying BizTalk application is error-prone. For every BizTalk application, developing a script to automate deployment process is absolutely necessary. One of recent projects I’m working on requires to import and deploy policies with multiple rulesets and vocabularies. BTSTask , a command line tool from Microsoft, can be [...]

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Common BizTalk Deployment Issues & Solutions

By Leo Wang | January 21, 2008

Deploying BizTalk application is a challenging task, which requires some special knowledge beyond desktop or web application deployment. In this blog, I will discuss some very common deployment issues and their solutions.
I usually choose manually deploy BizTalk application to other computers due to the time constraint to write automation script. A typical deployment cycle consists [...]

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Import flat file using BizTalk server

By Leo Wang | October 15, 2007

Recently I worked with a client to implement a solution to import data from an Excel file to SQL Server database. In order to provide a seamless user experience, we created a web page to allow user to upload file to server, then use BizTalk server to convert Excel file to XML file and call [...]

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