Author Archives: Stan Kennedy

BizTalk Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

By Stan Kennedy | January 20, 2011

OverviewÂ
The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log and analyzes it using known thresholds.  A template is created from the PAL tool and imported to the server’s Performance tool as a new counter.  This includes relative BizTalk and SQL metrics that will be tracked.  [...]

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Calling EDI Pipelines from Orchestrations

By Stan Kennedy | January 14, 2011

In a recent client project, I found a need to call an EDI pipeline from my orchestration.Â
Environment:
BizTalk Server 2009
Use Case:
Call external synchronous web service that expects a string type with contents of an EDI document.  The orchestration receives response and takes action based on response code type.  In my case, I passed a 270 and [...]

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.NetTiers Architecture – Design Patterns Used

By Stan Kennedy | April 22, 2010

The .NetTiers code generated framework provides a ton of functionality out of the box. I will not go into the Data Tiers such as the Entities, Data, and Data.SqlClient as deep because it’s a typical n-tier Data setup. What I’d like to focus on is the business/component layer.

First, before generating the component layer you can [...]

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BizTalk Property Schemas in Different Namespaces

By Stan Kennedy | April 15, 2010

In BizTalk 2006 R2, I have noticed that sometimes the promoted property fields are not available.  This seemed to be a random occurance so I decided to spend a little time investigating.
Problem Scenario:
The property schema field will not show up in a Receive Shape filter. No matter how many times you build, rebuild, and close [...]

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BizTalk File Backup

By Stan Kennedy | March 26, 2010

Business or system constraints may force you to leverage BizTalk for File backups.  BizTalk can actually handle this pretty well if it’s planned out carefully.
Here is a diagram of the overall design:

One way to implement this is to set up a receive port and location to poll the original drop location of the files.  This receive location will [...]

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.NetTiers Component Business Layer Architecture

By Stan Kennedy | May 22, 2009

I posted a blog on my blog site that takes a look at the Patterns used in the .NetTier Service Layer Architecture.  Check it out at …
http://www.stanfordkennedy.com/2009/05/nettiers-architecture-design-patterns.html
~Stan Kennedy

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