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…

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…