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Notes on apps, AI, architecture, and delivery reality.
A running stream of build notes and systems thinking: consumer software, AI workflows, integration boundaries, cloud delivery, product tradeoffs, and operating reality.
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SQL Server Expired???
So I am working on a vm that was built from Azure gallery BizTalk 2013 R2 developer for 2 weeks, suddenly got this message today Microsoft, are you…
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Show hidden performance counters
I was troubleshooting the CPU bottleneck of the production server, didn’t see the process perf counters, it turns out this has to be updated ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance\Disable Performance Counters’ change…
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Merge deployment in BTDF and version upgrade
A typical BizTalk best practice is always to develop each interface under its own solution and dedicated BizTalk application. This also aligns to what BTDF (BizTalk deployment framework)…
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Learning using PAL
PAL is good, producing good quality report, as usual, the learning curve is not cleared documented. Problem: MergeConvertFilterPerfmonLogs : Relog.exe failed to process the log fixed this by…
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mllp
Some tweaks to apply under heavy load to the HL7 adapter Create the registry key MLLPSendFlushTimeout Create new registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Accelerator for HL7/Version 2.0 with following…
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Use deployment framework to import multiple bindings
The healthcare project I am in requires a one way send port for acknoledgement handling, it in turn requires a one way receive port to pre-exisit for deployment.…
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BizTalk connecting to a load balanced SAP server
If you are like me looking at Microsoft documentation thinking you can just use BizTalk server to connect to a load balanced SAP via message server, you are…
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Deploy configuration file to BizTalk folder
Scenario is I am to copy my file based configuration to the BizTalk installation folder (reason being in runtime I can access the registry to get the path…
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Thoughts on Enterprise Service Bus
The bus, is definitely definitely a popular word now. If you want to show off, told them you build ‘the bus’. What is it and its relationship to…
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InRule first impression
On current project, we chose the business rules engine called inRule. The product itself, compared to the BizTalk one, is very interesting, in my two days of learning,…