Monday, October 30, 2006

List of bugs that are fixed in BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2

Service pack 2 has lot of fixes for BizTalk server 2004.for more information click link below
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924330/en-us

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2

BizTalk Server 2004 Service pack 2 is available now.Prior to install this service pack 2 should have installed Service pack 1.For more info
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d20b4510-e5a6-4d7b-87a1-4bd52bdd57b8&displaylang=en

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Handling Special characters in Biztalk Pipelines

We had a scenario where the files have been transferred from Unix OS to Windows OS applications where each application supports different character sets. On FTP the unix box adds a special character which is invisible even in Ultra EDIT or Text Pad Editor Hex format. You might get Unexpected data found while looking for: "\r\n".
To Resolve this peculiar problem, you need to change the Code page property found in Schema level property page to ASCII format or whichever system it applies to

BizTalk Server 2006 Developer Tools Improvements

BizTalk 2006 has some of the unique features such as Flat file wizard, orchestration Zoom etc.For more info
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/whitepapers/bts2006_devtoolswp.mspx