Monitoring suspended orchestrations using System Center Operations Manager

Using the standard configuration for monitoring suspended orchestrations with System Center Operations Manager isn't that useful for BizTalk monitoring. Let's take the orchestration monitoring to the next level.

Impersonate WCF Credentials when calling a WCF Service

One of the requirements that I regularly encounter is that I need to call WCF TCP or WCF Web with trusted authentication.My development laptop or my virtual machines are never member of the customer domain so that makes it almost impossible to develop and test against services of the customer. For Example, Microsoft Dynamics is often used with WCF-TCP which only allows for trusted authentication.

Hosting WCF receive locations using the isolated host

I was recently asked to support an organization using BizTalk which, after performing maintenance on their BizTalk environment, encountered unexpected messages that had entered the message-box. Additionally, a significant amount of these messages were duplicates. In this blog post I would like to share the cause of this issue and how it can be prevented.

Tips and tricks for BizTalk monitoring with PowerShell

Tips and tricks for BizTalk monitoring with PowerShell. In this blog post I explain how you can use PowerShell to monitor a frequently failing receive location in BizTalk 2006.

Using HttpHeaders with WCF-WebHttp Adapter on Biztalk 2013

On the latest version of BizTalk (2013): a new adapter was introduced for natively working with REST endpoints, using WCF technology: the WCF-WebHttp Adapter. After the beta version was released we could find some very good articles about this adapter, but since it is a new adapter there's a lot of ground to cover.