Every now and then, when dealing with BizTalk orchestrations, you might encounter issues you can’t explain. Things like the following, infamous error, may occur without any valid reason:
#error: Errors exist for one or more children
Even after fixing every error, you rebuild the project and/or solution, and the error is still not fixed…
You may know the issue when opening a BizTalk orchestration and it opens like this:
Note: I blurred the code to protect the name of my client.
Not much you can do about it, except right-clicking the orchestration and clicking ‘Open With…’ and choosing the BizTalk Orchestration Designer.
However, if you close the BizTalk Orchestration Designer again, and double-click the odx file, it once again opens in the first, yet useless, view.
(This blog post was co-written by Pieter Vandenheede & Glenn Colpaert, both colleagues at Codit)
We finally admit it… we both were the brains behind the CrazyBizTalk account. There… it’s in the open. After Integrate 2017, day 3, we were no longer able to keep it a secret, so there is no use of denying it anymore…
It was a fun ride, which started in 2013 already. We’ve written this post to give you some insights on how it all got started, the fun we had through the years and what the next steps are.
At Codit, I manage the blog. We have some very passionate people on board who like to invest their time to get to the bottom of things and – also very important – share it with the world!
That small part of my job means I get to review blog posts before publishing on a technical level. It’s always good to have one extra pair of eyes reading the post before publishing it to the public, so this definitely pays off!
An even smaller part of publishing blog posts is making sure they get enough coverage. Sharing them on Twitter, LinkedIn or even Facebook is part of the job for our devoted marketing department! And analytics around these shares on social media definitely come in handy! For that specific reason we use Bitly to shorten our URLs.
Every time a blog post gets published, someone needed to add them manually to out Bitly account and send out an e-mail. This takes a small amount of time, but as you can imagine it accumulates quickly with the amount of posts we generate lately!
While figuring out the BizTalk 2016 Feature Pack 1 ALM feature, the setup & configuration of the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) build agent gave me some issues while configuring:
The error reads:
Exception of type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.OAuth.VssOAuthTokenRequestException’ was thrown.
After searching for quite some time, I noticed the clock on my Virtual Machine was off. Strange, since Hyper-V will synchronized it quite fast after a resumed save.
Funny enough, after retrying, this seemed to do the trick. Long story short: if you have the above error, make sure the clock of your machine is synchronized.
Cheers,
Pieter
Some side-notes on the BizTalk Server Feature Pack 1:
Below you can find a walk-through for the BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 installation. This might serve someone for a document on how to install the feature pack.
The BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 can be downloaded from this URL:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55100.
On the Microsoft download page it is actually named “BizTalk Server 2016 Update 1” and I don’t think that was a very good choice to be honest. I believe it will create confusion between BizTalk Server cumulative update packages and feature packs. Nevertheless, that’s the one you want!
Start the executable:
Click Next:
Accept the EULA and click Next:
If possible, participate in the CEI program:
Not sure what they tried to achieve with this, but just click Next:
Click Yes to agree with the restart of your Host Instances, the ESSO service, IIS Admin Service (if installed), WMI, etc…
Patiently wait out until the install finishes:
Click Finish to complete the installation.
Verify you can find the following event log in the event viewer:
Product: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 – Update ‘Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Hotfix [KB 4014788]’ installed successfully.
Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016. Product Version: 3.12.774.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Update Name: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Hotfix [KB 4014788]. Installation success or error status: 0.
Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016. Product Version: 3.12.774.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Reconfiguration success or error status: 0.
When you check Programs & Features, you can easily see if the Feature Pack is installed or not:
Cheers,
Pieter Vandenheede
Let’s dive into the new BizTalk Server 2016 and summarize its enhancements and newest features. Learn how BizTalk 2016 allows a much easier integration towards the cloud. BizTalk 2016 also supports for high availability both on premises and on Microsoft Azure with SQL Server AlwaysOn. You will hear about the platform upgrades and various updates around BizTalk tooling, operations and monitoring.
To conclude, I will help you find an answer to the key question: whether or not you should upgrade to BizTalk 2016.
Watch the webinar below:
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.
Cheers,
Pieter
Earlier this evening, I had a great time at BTUG.be, while presenting my session on BizTalk 2016.
I presented the new features in BizTalk Server 2016 RTM and a few takeaway from SQL Server 2016. More specifically, and in-depth, on SQL Server AlwaysOn support for BizTalk Server 2016 on-premise and in the Azure cloud, as well as an intro on the new Logic App adapter and how to install and connect it to your on-premise BizTalk Server.
Thanks to my company, Codit.eu, for providing me the opportunity to be there!
As promised there, please find my slide deck below via SlideShare:
Contact me if you have any questions regarding the slides, I’d be happy to answer you.
The other speakers there were Glenn Colpaert (session about Azure Functions), Kristof Rennen (session on Building scalable and resilient solutions using messaging) and Nino Crudele (session on Holistic approaches to Integration).
As always, it was nice to talk to the people present. A big thank you to BTUG.be for having me again!
Enjoy the slide deck!
Pieter
Just a heads up that, on December 13th, I will be speaking at BTUG.be XL for the first time. The session I’m doing is on the 10th release of BizTalk Server, namely BizTalk Server 2016.
The event is hosted by Microsoft, Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3, B-1935 Zaventem
My session:
BizTalk Server 2016: The T-Rex Has New Specs
Find out what’s new in the latest version of BizTalk Server 2016, if you need to upgrade or not and what impact it has on your infrastructure.
BizTalk Server 2016 is the 10th version of the product and comes with several enhancements and new features. From this session you will learn what’s new in BizTalk Server 2016, how it may affect your life as a BizTalk enthusiast and what you need to do in order to get it running AlwaysOn.
This dinosaur has not fossilized yet!
You can subscribe here, entrance is free and pizza will be delicious!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/btugbe-december-13-btug-xl-tickets-29141495999
Looking forward to see you there!
This blog post contains a full overview of the BizTalk installation prerequisite CAB files that are needed when installing BizTalk on your server(s). The provided links especially come in handy when having to download the CAB files for use on systems without internet connectivity.
Pieter Vandenheede 