As a BizTalk consultant I always implement BAM to do basic auditing. This is besides the BAM a business analist would want to see. The basic functionality of this audit trial is: When was the message received Where did it came from Where did it go What happend to the message Any important business decision...
When developing a custom PipelineComponent I spend quite a while overlooking the obvious. For all those who also overlook this: When writing BAM from a PipelineComponent it is a good practice to use the PipelineContext.GetEventStream() method to get the BAM eventstream. This way your BAM events will...
I have a solution where I use BAM to build a complete audit trail of a message flow. Custom components write a message to a predefined BAM view whenever you want it to. Normal points where you would use this functionality is in receive & send pipelines. And if an important business decision was made...
Here is a simple way to open a command window from within Visual Studio that is aware of the BizTalk Management Utility (bm.exe). I have found this useful while working with interceptor configuration files. This tip will add the Visual Studio Command Prompt to the Tools menu. Nothing too dramatic here...
Similar to remembering to update the Activate property to true in your first receive shape in a BizTalk orchestration, there is a BAM whoops that catches me out occasionally. If you find yourself looking at your aggregate view wondering why there is not any data while in the activity search it clearly...
Overview: BAM tracks activity using UTC , the BAM Portal Activity Search displays datetime in local time, and BAM Aggregates are collected in UTC. This means if a business user is using both the BAM Portal Activity Search page and the BAM Portal Aggregate...
As BAM tracks activity using UTC , I am trying to find a way to get my aggregate views with a progress duration to accumulate based on local time instead of UTC time. My initial hunch was this would be a simple setting somewhere to influence this as this is a common scenario. To illustrate what I am...
Just a post to help those newbies to BAM, like me, out there in regards to an issue I encountered getting my OLAP cubes to display data. The BizTalk 2006 R2 documentation describing getting BAM to work is based on using a SQL Server 2000 database, and in particular DTS. In an environment using SQL Server...
When trying to get the example in Instrumenting the WCF Getting Started Sample (BizTalk Server Sample) to run, I encountered the following error: Server Error in '/servicemodelsamples' Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file...