Problem Description

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While configuring BTS2006 R2 WSS Adapter, I received the following error:

“Error encountered while querying virtual server state for URL: http//myserver/.

Make sure the site is extended by Windows SharePoint Services. (CWssAdaCfg)”

Problem Analysis and Resolution

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The logged on user didn’t have the privilege of dbcreator and securityadmin rights to the SharePoint_Config database.

1. Add the account to Server Role with dbcreator and security admin.

2. Add this account to SharePoint farm Administrator group.

3. Remove and re-extend the website in SharePoint. (If web application already exists prior to installing the WSS adapter)

When to use what?

In the past couple of weeks,  I have learnt a great deal on when to use the BizTalk mapper Vs custom XSLT mapping.
Although, my conclusion might be debatable but I consider them to be a good guideline for future mapping exercises.

Use custom XSLT if:

1. The mapping contains a large number of items/records in the source schema which loop and/or repeat into a single destination element/record.  In such a case, you would have very little control over the XSL auto generated by BizTalk mapper.
2. The map is very complex and requires you to have more than ten logical pages to have a clear view of what is going on.  In this case, maintaining the complex BizTalk map would far outweigh the benefits of rapidly creating the map in a visual interface.
3. You start using an insane number of scripting functoids to do value mappings/enumerations.  These will be opaque to a developer who opens up the map for maintenance later on.

Use the Biztalk mapper if:

1. The map is small and simple and you are able to understand the auto-generated XSL
2. The resultant map is visually easy to grasp/decipher for the maintenance developer.

Cheers
Hemil.

In this video, Peter Kelcey and Dmitri Ossipov discuss Microsoft’s Enterprise Service Bus Guidance (and specifically the new version 2.0) and how it allows an organization to build a dynamic, flexible and practical ESB as part of the larger Service Oriented Infrastructure.  This was presented recently at the SOA Conference.

Cheers,

Hemil.

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OK, here is how you build an itinerary with ESB Guidance 1.0. Yes, everyone loves hand editing XML files.

And, here is the new Visual Itinerary Designer in ESB Guidance 2.0

Once you are done building the itinerary, you can right click and ‘Export it to XML’ which creates XML as shown above.

You can get to this new designer by opening a new Visual Studio 2008 C# Class Library project and use the new ItineraryDsl file template  to add a ItineraryDsl to the project as shown below. (Provided you have already installed ESB Guidance 2.0)

Cheers

Hemil.

Peter Kelcey has put together a video (Part 1 of many to follow) which covers a basic routing scenario using BizTalk ‘ESB Guidance 2.0′.

Click here for the full post and video

I always thought batch imports to SQL Server is best left to a data integration tool like SSIS.  However, in this interesting article by Richard Hallgren, he demonstrates better performance by changing the format of the message sent to the SQL adapter.

Click here for the article

The videos are:

How Do I: Get Started Developing on Windows Azure?

How Do I: Deploy a Windows Azure Application?

How Do I: Leverage Queues in Windows Azure?

How Do I: Store Blobs in Windows Azure Storage?

Cheers

Hemil.

Click here to find out more about this beta from Microsoft

Click here: MSDN TV – Use Team Foundation SCerver for BizTalk Server 2009 development | Johan Lindfors | Channel 9