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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...