Yesterday Microsoft released the cumulative update package 4 for BizTalk Server 2010. For more info please check the Microsoft support page:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2667310

The cumulative update package contains al previously released hotfixes. Before installing please read the following warning from Microsoft:

BizTalkAdminsBlogging went live on the 27th of January. The site immediately got a lot of attention. During the first month we had almost 2000 visits originating from 46 different countries. Not only did we draw a lot of readers, but also some active bloggers. Eight active bloggers wrote 36 articles. These bloggers contributed greatly to the success of this site, so thank you guys!

The Backup BizTalk Server job uses the MarkLog table to write marks. These marks are actually timestamps which are used by the job to determine until what time a (Log) backup must be made. Unfortunately BizTalk has no out-of-the-box possibilities to clean up that table.

Luckily Microsoft provides Terminator to clean up this table and do a lot of other things. In this article I’ll describe the capabilities from Terminator in short and more detailed on how you should use it to clean up the MarkLog table.

I have just be warned about a bug in BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2009 in EDI:

http://www.axonolympus.nl/wd/pages/nl/BTS_EDI_BUG.php

If you are using EDI in BizTalk 2006 R2 or BizTalk 2009 you just have a couple of days to check if you are affected and to implement and test the fix.

Following my last two posts, I will now demonstrate how we can create a script that allows us to automatically change user credentials of a BizTalk Host Instance.

Off course you make backups of your BizTalk databases! You have set the Recovery Model from the databases to Full and every single day your Maintenance Plans or (actually) the SQL Server Agent jobs make Full and Log backups. So in case you need to restore your BizTalk databases, you are safe... Well, I've got some news for you... You're not so safe...

If you make BizTalk Backups like described above, you could be in deep trouble in case you need to restore. When it comes to making backups from your BizTalk databases, Microsoft supports only one way. I'll describe this way, and some insides about it, in this article.

Note: You can find a new version here

In my first series of blog posts I blogged about useful (sample) PowerShell scripts, working towards a simple BizTalk application deployment script. This script is now finished. You can download the script and the example xml-files below or here. The script does the following:
• Import the msi
• Import the binding file
• Install the msi
• Create directories
• Create event sources
• Restart host instances

The MessageBoxViewer MBV is one of the main tools we have at hand to manage and monitor our BizTalk environments. This tool has been created by Jean-Pierre Auconie, and is currently available in version 11.

In my previous post I demonstrated how you could change the startup type for BizTalk services automatically using PowerShell. This time I will demonstrate how you can create a script that allows us to automatically restart all your BizTalk services:

A two weeks ago I wrote about the flying start this blog has made. Now this blog has double in number of posts from fourteen to twenty eight. I must say that is amazing and the number of bloggers has grown to eight; myself, Jeroen Hendriks, Lex Hegt, Sandro Pereira, Howard Edidin, Peter Winther, Joris Arts and Miguel Angel Castaño. You can find them in the bloggers section of this blog. It is not just this blog that plays an important role in the momentum BizTalk Administration, but also the TechNet Wiki. You can read my latest blog post there, where I also tell story on BizTalk administration.