A typical BizTalk best practice is always to develop each interface under its own solution and dedicated BizTalk application. This also aligns to what BTDF (BizTalk deployment framework) built on. However, this is a tricky one in the healthcare solution since the solution usually built on a tree structure Each node in the above diagram […]

PAL is good, producing good quality report, as usual, the learning curve is not cleared documented. Problem: MergeConvertFilterPerfmonLogs : Relog.exe failed to process the log fixed this by adding the monitored performance counters in the blg file Problem: CheckPalXmlThresholdFileVersion : The threshold file specified is not compatible with PAL v2.0. for whatever reason, the custom.xml […]

Some tweaks to apply under heavy load to the HL7 adapter Create the registry key MLLPSendFlushTimeout Create new registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Accelerator for HL7/Version 2.0 with following details: Name : MLLPSendFlushTimeout Value : 0 Set MaxReceiveInterval to 50 ms Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Expand Databases node and select BizTalkMgmtDb database. Expand Tables […]

The healthcare project I am in requires a one way send port for acknoledgement handling, it in turn requires a one way receive port to pre-exisit for deployment. So when using the deployment framework, I cannot put together the send port and receive port together in one file. Even worse, the receive port has to […]

If you are like me looking at Microsoft documentation thinking you can just use BizTalk server to connect to a load balanced SAP via message server, you are wrong. It turns out even for this scenario (type B) BizTalk still needs a gateway service and a gateway host. Not a SAP guy at first place, […]

Scenario is I am to copy my file based configuration to the BizTalk installation folder (reason being in runtime I can access the registry to get the path without touching the BizTalk configuration) I am using BTDF, cannot find an existing implementation to do this. So I added the following section to BTDF msbuild target […]

The bus, is definitely definitely a popular word now. If you want to show off, told them you build ‘the bus’. What is it and its relationship to ESB toolkit, in my opinion, is totally not related. The messaging bus is nothing more than a design pattern concept. It does not mean you have to […]

On current project, we chose the business rules engine called inRule. The product itself, compared to the BizTalk one, is very interesting, in my two days of learning, compared to BizTalk Rules Engine, it provides enhancements on a much much much more fancy environment for creating the rules, being the irAuthor, word plugin, visual studio […]

This is interesting,