Stephen W. Thomas

Are you tired of having to go into the BizTalk Admin tool to terminate any suspended Orchestration instance before you want to redeploy? Scripting this…

Wow, it has been some time now since I last blogged. I would like to say I have been super busy with tons of project work. But, actually I have been on…

The Biztalk Subscription viewer is an essential tool for analyzing and correcting subscription errors in Biztalk.

The Biztalk 2006 Beta Program is now available for sign-up. Biztalk 2006 simplifies the administration and deployment process. Some of the other major…

Biztalk 2006 introduces many new and exciting features. One of these new features is Recoverable Interchange Processing for inbound receive interchanges.

Envelopes can be used with the Xml Disassembler in Biztalk 2004 to break up larger Xml messages into single messages. Another approach to message…

Have you seen this error when installing BizTalk 2004? Failed to deploy BizTalk system assembly "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft BizTalk Server…

With the release of BizTalk 2006 Beta just around the corner, why not get a head start by seeing how to call a Receive Pipeline from within an…

Message context is a critical part of message routing and processing inside BizTalk Server 2004. How this context is handled during mapping is different…

This is a cool feature of BizTalk 2004! It allows you to map many documents into one or map one document into many. In either case, your inputs will not…

Download This Article and Sample Code Here: Related Sample: In some business scenarios you may be required to receive a batch file that must be broken up…

What? How? When? Why? Useless? You have no clue what I am talking about? What are BTXTimerMessages? They are messages BizTalk uses internally to control…

In the past, I have tended to focus on sequential convoys. Now, I decided to take a look at Concurrent Convoys. First off, I was sure in older versions of…

It can sometimes be challenging when mapping schemas in BizTalk 2004. One common problem is when the inbound document has one record and the source…

Working with XPath inside Orchestrations is a powerful and simple feature of BizTalk 2004. The help guide does a good job describing the process (under…

Did anyone else read Kevin Smith’s blog on ACK/NACK and run out to try it? Well, I sure did and found it a little more time consuming then I expected. I…

This is always a point of confusion. I just wanted to take a second to get everyone on the same page since these properties are VERY important. If you are…