BizTalk XML disassembler vs validator

In the BizTalk toolbox, you have two standard pipeline components that can perform this XML validation. These components have a very different behavior. Let’s have a detailed look.

Importing two schemas of the same namespace in BizTalk

It’s a common practice to reuse schemas and types within your BizTalk solution. Lately, I’ve encountered an issue regarding this. Here you can find a simplified example and a solution to the problem.

Elevating permissions for BizTalk Server Operators group

This blog post is about elevating the permissions for members of the BizTalk Server Operators group. By executing a SQL Server script, you can easily grant them the rights to view BizTalk message bodies which allows easy debugging or follow up in different scenarios without having to change memberships.

Best practices for handling web service exceptions in BizTalk Server

This blog post contains some guidelines for consuming web services, with a focus on exception handling. We will both handle pure messaging scenario and web service calls from within an orchestration. There's also a distinguishment between asynchronous and synchronous flows.

SCOM 2007 R2 Monitoring for BizTalk SQL Agent Jobs

Some important notes about monitoring BizTalk SQL Agent Jobs with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

Flat File parsing as a Service

In some cases, other applications want to make use of the flat file parsing functionality of BizTalk. These applications need for example a conversion between their .NET object and a flat file, or vice versa. The functional context can be EDI, HL7, Copybook or custom flat file parsing.