• Show hidden performance counters

    I was troubleshooting the CPU bottleneck of the production server, didn’t see the process perf counters, it turns out this has to be updated ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance\Disable Performance Counters’ change this from 1 to 0 works like a maze. Read more

  • Merge deployment in BTDF and version upgrade

    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 […] Read more

  • Learning using PAL

    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 […] Read more

  • mllp

    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 […] Read more

  • Use deployment framework to import multiple bindings

    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 […] Read more

  • BizTalk connecting to a load balanced SAP server

    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, […] Read more