January 2019 | agblogs

Issues during BizTalk 2013 to BizTalk 2016 migration

Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 by abhijeetg

Issue#1: VS 2015 cannot load BizTalk projects Resolution: The BizTalk 2016 projects with .net Framework set to 4.6 & above had this issue. The .net framework 4.7 Developer pack had to be installed. Issue#2: SQL Agent disabled on DB servers Resolution: The alias name for SQL Instance had to be updated to <ServerName>.<domain>\<InstanceName> in SQL Agent Properties. Issue#3: BizTalk…

Tool to Extract BAM Activities

Posted on January 7, 2019 by abhijeetg

While migrating from BizTalk 2013 to BizTalk 2016, there was a need to deploy all existing BAM activities to BizTalk 2016 environment. However, bm.exe allows you to extract all BAM activities into a single file. If you try to use this extracted file for deploying BAM Activity definitions, it will not deploy any activity and…