Issues during BizTalk 2013 to BizTalk 2016 migration

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…

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…

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…