Rudolf Henning - All Comments

re: Listing BizTalk suspended filenames

rudolf — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:08:55 GMT

The reason is simply: the BizTalk Admin console and even HAT does not expose this information easily in a format that is useful for business users or support people. In the environment I work in the people that monitor the environment are not BizTalk administrators (they have to monitor dozens of others systems etc.) Even the Operator's Role does not expose the right information for them - the file name property is not accessible unless you are an admin.

The 'first price' would have been that the file name in question (in error) must be mentioned in the event log entry that notify us of the problem but that is not the case. Even then retrieving a usable report and so on is not possible using the provided BizTalk tools.

As for using routing on failed messages. This could work in some cases but often we have things like 'Out of Memory' problems with large files which will break this feature (plus loosing the original filename info).

We're using BTS 2006 (not R2) so BAM is not useful for files that fail before it is successfully in the MessageBox.

re: Listing BizTalk suspended filenames

Ryan CrawCour — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:34:10 GMT

Hi;

BizTalk server has a lot of things that it can do when things go wrong. It has full tracking of messages. It suspends messages allowing a Bts admin to view full message as well as why things went wrong. It allows you to fix the problem and then resume the message.

It has the server admin group hub page where you can see exactly what is going on. It has support for MOM / SCOM / and other mngt tools that will notify admin type people when things go wrong.

Are you using Bts 2006?

If so there are a number of ways of doing this.

You could enable routing on failed messages and build an orchestration (or send port) that subscribes to failed messages. In that orch you could do whatever you like, including writing the original file (with original filename) out to disk, dropping it in a sharepoint list for a human to action etc.

Your approach seems to work, but why write your own code to dig around in the messagebox when the tools out of the box give you the same functionality?

Or am I missing something here?

You could also

Rudolf vs die wêreld

Hannes's Mind Maze — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:21:05 GMT

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Rudolf vs die wêreld

Hannes's Mind Maze — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:20:50 GMT

Sonder twyfel die mees interresante gebeurtenis op die internet, van waar ek sit, is op die oomblik die

re: IMate JAMin

rudolf — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:24:34 GMT

I'm afraid the options on their web site (my SP) was a bit limited and the IMate was one of the few better phones.

re: IMate JAMin

ahmeds — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:14:45 GMT

What about the HTC TyTN?

re: Why do we still bother...

hannes — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:28:26 GMT

Ek sal vir jou 'n bier gaan koop dan voel jy dalk beter, ek was daar en weet hoe dit voel. Sterkte.

re: Why do we still bother...

Trivium DawnWalker — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:28:44 GMT

and then in two weeks time they return and say, "remember that thing you did a few weeks back? Yeah, we kinda need it now, so do you still have it because I removed it off the server"..........................

re: Release dates and other myths

Kevin Morrill — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:06:52 GMT

I am working on the team building Service Packs for both Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. The slips are frustrating, no doubt about it. In the past few weeks on the VS 2005 SP1 project, we have worked aggressively to contain the scope (there's always more we could improve), and get a realistic SP out the door that addresses the top concerns in a reasonable time. We're listening, and I will make sure my team reads this.

re: Accessing 'promoted properties' in a custom pipeline component

Fred — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:59:21 GMT

Hi! Why my ReceivedFileName property is always null ? Do I have the Promote some property ? Thanks!

re: Opera 9.0

doobiwan — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:52:26 GMT

I love Opera, like butter, I've got it on everything ;) Cell phone, home PC, work PC. It's the little things that I like. Like Mouse gestures, "paste and Go", the awesome status bar, real caching and Session restore. It's not perfect. I don't think it can to challenge response yet, but it works for me.

re: Opera 9.0

rudolf — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:11:36 GMT

It's not so much the surfing speed that makes it better than the responsiveness when doing things with the browser. The best example is launching the browser. While Firefox takes several seconds to actually start responding Opera is open and active in less than a second.
Actually, it does feel a bit faster with browsing web pages as well.

re: Opera 9.0

matt — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:53:17 GMT

Does the speed _really_ make a difference if you're surfing at South African speeds?

re: Steam == Evil

Tunasashimi — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:58:27 GMT

I wholeheartedly agree with Steam being absolutely full of !@*(#!@)(#. It is the most incompetently designed piece of software known to man. Right next to MSN Messenger. And everything else. Actually. Computers... outdoors... computers.... outdoors. Uhh.. Screw Computers. Lets all take an extended vacation from technology. Maybe 20 years down the line when we return, things might have changed. Or Gotten Worse. My bet. I'm here to fight.... So.... How do we alter the big picture? Change the law?

re: BizTalk 2006

Garnet — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:11:18 GMT

Well put, only in the last six months have I started learning as much as possible about Biztalk and comparing 2004 to 2006 - 2006 on the management side is where 2004 should have been.

Remember that 2006 is running on top of .net 2.0 though, which for 2004 just wasn't released yet. Some of the new functionality - like calling pipelines from within orchestrations - also makes the whole development experience more intuitive from an OO perspective.

Deploying in 2004 was a just painfull, and now that is gone... :D:D:D and yeah, 'applications' in 2006 ROCK!!!