Tag Archives: BizTalk

BizTalk- SMTP E-Mail: Compress Attachment in Memory

By Karl Schwirz | February 23, 2011

When trying to send a message via the SMTP adapter in BizTalk we have the option of attaching messages as part of Multi-Part Messages.  If the message being attached is too large the message will fail to send.  In our application, we send email notifications of failed messages in BizTalk with the original message sent [...]

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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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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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Setting up an HL7 Solution

By Shawn | January 28, 2009

Setting up an HL7 Solution
HL7 Accelerator Overview
As you might know, the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 offers a great deal of enhanced messaging capabilities for the healthcare industry. Although it is offered as a separate download, it comes with the license of BizTalk. The nice part about it is that it offers all of [...]

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