BizTalk 2016: Additional post install changes in multi-server environment

To provide high availability for BizTalk databases, Microsoft recommends BizTalk databases be created in the following way: S.No SQL Instance BizTalk Databases 1 AUTHENTICATION SSODB 2 RUNTIME BizTalkMsgBoxDbBizTalkRulesEngineDbBAMPrimaryImportBAMStarSchemaBAMAlertsApplication 3 MGMT BizTalkMgmtDb 4 TRACKING BizTalkDTADbEsbItineraryDbEsbExceptionDb 5 REPORTING Custom DBs In addition to the BizTalk Server 2016 & SQL 2016 installation pre-requisites, the following changes are required on…

Automated Build & Deployment using BTDF & TFS

1. Install BTDF using ‘DeploymentFrameworkForBizTalkV5_7.msi’ file on the Dev machine. You will need to restart Visual Studio 2015 after the installation. 2. Open a solution in Visual Studio and right click on the solution file to add BTDF project.   3. As you soon as you click Ok, you will be asked the type of…

Connect to On-Premise Application from Azure using custom Logic Apps Connector

This proof of concept showcases the capability of Azure (Microsoft’s Cloud offering) to communicate with legacy systems. The Logic Apps in Azure allows you to create & automate workflows needed to integrate different applications. It comes pre-equipped with a rich library of connectors and allows custom connectors for communication with legacy applications. This POC focuses…

DB2 adapter registry issue

After installing Host Integration Server 2013 Developer Edition on top of BizTalk 2013, the DB2 adapter was created in BizTalk Admin console. However, after configuring receive location and/or send port with DB2 adapter, the BizTalk Admin console displayed below error:   A message sent to adapter “BiztalkMessagingEngine” on send port “SendPort4” with URI “DB2://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:446/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX” is…