Managing your BizTalk Environment using SCOM

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Swedish BizTalk user group in Stockholm. It was an excellent opportunity to present to one of the top BizTalk user groups worldwide. My presentation consisted of slide ware, a tour of the SCOM 2007 R2 console and several BizTalk/SCOM demos using BizTalk 2010 beta and the BizTalk 2010 Management Pack beta. You may find the presentation below.

BizTalk integration with SharePoint and the Cloud Presentation

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Calgary .Net User Group. My presentation included slideware and demonstrations involving integrating BizTalk with SharePoint 2010 and the AppFabric Service bus. You can view the presentation below:

BizTalk 2010 Beta – Where are the AppFabric Service Bus bindings?

After installing the Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK V1.0 - April Update I was expecting all of the AppFabric Service Bus relay bindings to be available inside of the BizTalk Admin Console but they were not.  I could run the AppFabric Echo .Net Sample without any issues.  After re-installing both the AppFabric SDK and BizTalk 2010 Beta I was still unable to find these bindings in the Admin console.  I checked the machine.config files (both 32 bit and 64bit) and both files were updated.  The problem with this is that I checked the .Net 2.0 config files.

After stumbling across Wade Wegner’s blog, the picture became much clearer.  Wade explains “I soon realized that the issue was the machine.config file.  When you install the Azure AppFabric SDK the relevant WCF extensions are added to the .NET Framework 2.0 machine.config file, which is shared by .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.  However, .NET Framework 4.0 has its own machine.config file, and the SDK will not update the WCF extensions.”

To resolve the issue you need to run a utility called: RelayConfigurationInstaller.exe which can be found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK\V1.0\Assemblies (64 bit machine) or C:\Program Files\Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK\V1.0\Assemblies (32 bit machine) and provide an input file that includes

<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<startup>
<requiredRuntime safemode="true"
imageVersion="v4.0.30319"
version="v4.0.30319"/>
</startup>
</configuration>

The name of this file should be called RelayConfigurationInstaller.exe.config.

example:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK\V1.0\Assemblies>RelayConfigurationInstaller.exe /i

After this command was run successfully, I could now see the “Cloud Bindings” including the NetTcpRelayBinding