We had some issues with slow message processing on a BizTalk server due to throttling and I was just about to write a long blog post about this, when I stumbled upon this blog-entry which basically explains it all. This is a great post detailing which performance counters to use and how to determine if [...]
This is a great tool to use when you are inspecting a BizTalk Server installation. Simply run it, and it will generate a HTML-report with a detailed summary of the entire setup. Additionaly it will also check for a large number of problems including if nescessary hotfixes have been applied, sql-jobs not running, throttling etc. [...]
We have multiple versions of our BizTalk applications running simultaneously and when constantly upgrading, you end up with a bunch of receive- and sendports that are no longer used by any orchestrations and should be cleaned up. As a help to determine which ports that are candidates for deletion, you can use the SQL below. [...]
Sometimes you need to call gacutil or other SDK tools from build-events and in order to do this, they need to be added to the path. Not exactly rocket science, but I always forget the macro and for future reference the following line will do the trick: [crayon-5c6c5410aee91403110699-i/]