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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring the BizTalk database jobs


BizTalk Server database jobs are required to keep BizTalk healthy. The jobs are important for preventing the database from becoming too large and cripple BizTalk's performance. The following table lists the BizTalk Server and SQL Server Agent jobs with a description of their responsibilities:

Job name

Description

Backup BizTalk Server

It consists of several steps to perform full database backups of the BizTalk Server databases and logs. It also specifies a retention period of the backup history.

CleanupBTFExpiredEntriesJob_BizTalkMgmtDb

It deletes expired BizTalk Framework entries from the BizTalk Management (BizTalkMgmtDb) database.

DTA Purge and Archive

It automates the archiving of tracked messages and the purging of the BizTalk Tracking database to maintain a healthy system and to keep the tracking data archived for future use.

MessageBox_DeadProcesses_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb

It detects when a BizTalk Server host instance (BTSNTSvc...