Basically, this tool analyzes the BizTalk databases (MessageBox, DTA, etc.) and provides information of the BizTalk environment at the time of launching the tool. The result of the MBV is a report in HTML format, which shows the following information:

SUMMARY REPORT

               + General

               + BizTalk Group

       + BizTalk Databases - General

               + BizTalk Databases - Sizes

               + BizTalk Servers

               + BizTalk Hosts

               + Ports, Pipelines & Orchs

               + Adapters

       + DTA Tables

               + BizTalk Jobs

               + MsgBox Queues

               + MsgBox Tables

               + Other Checks

       + Performances

     + Service Instances

               + SQL Servers

     +Warnings Report

We can say that this HTML reports an overall state of health of the environment in certain situations, and looking at the Summary Report, we see the amount of information that this tool reports.

The MBV has two key moments in use. First, when you first install BizTalk environment. After this first installation it gives a very accurate overview of the current situation of our environment and allows us to correct errors in the installation (for example, a job misconfigured badly or hotfixes that are not installed, etc.).

The second key moment is when you are troubleshooting an issue (or looking for one). As this tool gives us real time information of the health of our environment, we can see different points of failure that we have (for example, a very large number of orphaned orchestrations in MessageBox database).

This is only a first approach to the MBV. Play with MBV and you will see the quantity and quality of information it offers to you!

The tool can be downloaded from the following location:http://blogs.technet.com/b/jpierauc/archive/2007/12/18/msgboxviewer.aspx