BizTalk: 2006

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Edi support across the various releases of BizTalk Server.

We were struck in changing GS segment value in native edi adapter Biztalk 2006 and it was supported in Biztalk 2000 and 2002 environment not in Biztalk 2004 or in 2006.The BizTalk 2006 R2 is supporting lot of edi features such debatching ,batching and also changing environment mode from P to T (Production to Test) and also changing at the envelope level in edi file.Here is an link which shows the comaparision across 2000,2002,2004,2006 &2006 R2 environment .Waiting for R2 release.....

http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkb2b/archive/2006/11/10/evolution-of-edi-features-over-biztalk-server-versions-2000-to-2006-r2.aspx

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Network Storage Routers

I have been using laptop and an external USB hard drive. And whenever i want to connect external Hard drive or a Printer i was physically connecting to my USB ports. Later i was googling to find out is there a way of connecting the external hard drive to my PC without connecting the wires either bluetooth or so. I found that there are Wireless routers which are capable of connecting external hard drives where we can share the files across the network. All you have to do is just plug-in the hard drives in the USB ports of the router and wow now you can access your external hard drives or printers wirelessly(how convenient!). There are also some network hard drives which can connect to ethernet ports. Ofcourse i am not Networking guy though this technology would have existed long time back wanted to post this informaton as we are moving towards wireless technologies (wireless routers,Bluetooth etc.,) in our day to day practices.

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