BizTalk 2016 is RTM

The official announcement An important milestone in enterprise integration – launch of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 by Frank Weigel Principal Director, Program Management

Update: The BizTalk 2016 Azure VM is now available in the old Azure portal but not yet in the new portal  the download files are avaiable on MSDN & My Visualstudio for Standard, Enterprise & Branch, and now also Developer Edition.

Also the What’s New in BizTalk Server 2016 has been updated, what is new has not changed substantially from previously, however what is interesting there is what they have removed or marked as deprecated.

Read This Before Implementing AlwaysOn for BizTalk Server 2016

Kjetil Tonstad Integration Blog

One of the major news in BizTalk Server 2016 is the full support for SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AGs). When Microsoft announced this, the crowd cheered, and they moved on to the next slide. There are, however, some bits you should be aware of before deciding on your High Availability (HA) architecture for BizTalk.

The Background
SQL Server 2016 is the first (and only) edition to support AlwaysOn for BizTalk Server 2016. The reason is lack of support for MSDTC between BizTalk’s SQL Server databases and other transactional resources. For this reason, High Availability for the database layer in BizTalk scenarios has traditionally been solved by using Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC), typically with an active-passive configuration.

The Requirements
First of all, you need to run BizTalk Server 2016 Enterprise, SQL Server 2016 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2016 (or 2012 R2 with KB3090973).

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BizTalk Map Comparisons with TFS — Nic Trajkovic’s Blog

One of the most frustrating aspects of working with BizTalk maps does not involve complex maps or functoid usage, or how to call external assemblies, but rather how to run a code compare against previously checked-in .btm files. Often times I want to merely check what changes were made in in the map against a […]

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BizTalk Documenter for BizTalk Server 2016

Connected Pawns

The BizTalk Documenter has been compiled and refactored for .Net 4.6 and BizTalk 2016 Tap release.
This will only work for BizTalk 2016.

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Editing or viewing large XML Files

With BizTalk you sometimes have to open up large XML files either as input, or after they have been parsed by a flat file schema, or as the output from a map.  Opening it with Visual Studio or other tools is very slow and sometimes to makes them crash.

Cumulative Update 5 for BizTalk Server 2013

The Cumulative update package 5 for BizTalk Server 2013 is out, kb 3194301

A mixed bag of fixes in this CU including two fixes for issues caused by two previous CUs.

3165515 & 3167704 were also in CU 4 for BizTalk 2013 R2 and 3142269 was in CU3 for R2, but some of the others may still have to be released in another CU for Biztalk 2013 R2 if they are an issue.

What’s wrong and right with the BizTalk WCF-WebHTTP adapter

Link to video

Connected Pawns

Colin Dijkgraaf and I presented this on Integration Monday today. In this session we showed why the WCF-WebHTTP adapter requires some workarounds. We used BizTalk 2016 Tap release to demonstrate these workarounds. The presentation and PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded from here.

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BizTalk SSO & SSO Affiliate Settings

Recently at my work we’ve started using SSO Affiliate Applications to store credentials for Receive Locations and Send Ports to avoid either having the credentials in the Bindings (which is insecure) or having to re-enter the credentials after each release (which causes releases to take too long). I won’t go into details how we do that in this post, however as part of documenting this ability I went through all the adapters to see which could use SSO Affiliate Applications and which couldn’t.

How to check the CU level of BizTalk Server quickly

Sandro Pereira has written PowerShell scripts to quickly check the CU level of BizTalk Server

For 2010

See his blog How to check what BizTalk Server 2010 Cumulative Updates are installed in your Servers with PowerShell

Download the script from Check what BizTalk Server 2010 Cumulative Updates are installed with PowerShell

For 2013

See his blog How to check what BizTalk Server 2013 Cumulative Updates are installed in your Servers with PowerShell

Download the script from Check all BizTalk 2013 Cumulative Updates installed in server with PowerShell

For 2013 R2.

See his blog How to Check/Get the list of all BizTalk Cumulative Updates installed in the machine with PowerShell — Sandro Pereira BizTalk Blog

Download the script from Technet: Check all BizTalk Cumulative Updates installed in server with PowerShell

For 2016

See his blog How to check what BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Updates are installed in your Servers with PowerShell

Download script from Check what BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Updates are installed with PowerShell

Azure Integration book

A new integration book about Azure Integration (partially written by some of my work colleagues) called Robust Cloud Integration with Azure should be available from Packt Publishing March 2017