The BizTalk Message Box Viewer, also known as the Message Box Viewer (MBV), was created by Jean-Pierre Auconie. The MBV tool retrieves information from a BizTalk System and identifies many possible issues, which could be critical or need attention, and presents them in a user friendly format. This tool is like the BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) which is a health check tool that generates reports of a BizTalk System. Both the BPA and MBV are complementary to each other. The MBV can help administrators in acquiring information of a production the system very fast, with hardly any impact on running environment. It can help administrators to identify possible issues, which could be critical or need attention.
The MBV has two executables; one to fire up a console application and another to the Windows Form application. Both use the same engine by reading only in the BizTalk databases and Server's registry to retrieve useful lists of information. Both...