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West deplores UN Syria vote veto

Western nations deplore the vetoing by Russia and China of a UN resolution condemning the crackdown in Syria, as dozens are killed in Homs.

PM urged to cut wind farm subsidy

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Officers search for firearms man

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Mitt Romney wins Nevada caucuses

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VIDEO: Fidel Castro launches memoirs

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance to launch his memoirs.

Anti-social tenant moves planned

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In pictures: Venezuela parade

Venezuela's President Chavez marks 20 years since failed coup

'A little too much drink' warning

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Work contacts 'cut dropout rate'

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In pictures: Hope returns to Kandahar

City of hope in the heart of the Taliban's spiritual homeland

Mexico 'cartel enforcer' detained

Police in Mexico say they have arrested the suspected leader of the Gente Nueva gang, the armed wing of the Sinaloa drug cartel.

Acting veteran Ben Gazzara dies

US film and Broadway actor Ben Gazzara has died in New York at the age of 81.

VIDEO: Rival rallies on streets of Moscow

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Fidel Castro launches his memoirs

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro appears in public for the first time since April 2011 to launch a two-volume book of memoirs.

Scotland 6-13 England

Charlie Hodgson scores the only try as England beat Scotland 13-6 to earn their first Six Nations win at Murrayfield since 2004.

High Performing BizTalk Server 2009 /BizTalk Server 2010 Server Setup

Description

This blog gives you practical guidance for setting up high performing BizTalk Server 2009/2010 in Physical or Hyper V/ Virtual Machine.

Introduction

Virtualization provides cost effective infrastructure management with high availability and improved Security and Reliability with Hypervisor. This will help to minimize the down
time with quick migration and protect important data using live backup. This document will help you to setup high performing BizTalk Hyper V machines with cost effective high availability .

We have seen multiple issues with BizTalk server 2009 Hyper V implementation in terms of performance and availability.
Microsoft has released thestandard Hyper-V BizTalk setupwith standard practise. However the setup required some more tuning to get the system working as expected.

This document ensures simple flow chart to manage the setup with clear failure points.

BizTalk Server– Implementation techniques

Microsoft BizTalk Product team has already released the best practise documentation onBizTalk Server implementationwith Hyper V as well the Physical machines. However we have
seen some of the issues occurring required manual corrections of operating system registry values.

In order to make the document easier to use and more effective, the following flow chart was created:

We have seen errors like below and Host instances were getting stopped.

An error occurred while attempting to access the SSO database.

Function: GetGlobalInfo

File: infocache.cpp:1349

A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The semaphore timeout period has expired.).

SQL Error code: 0x00000079

Error code: 0xC0002A21, An error occurred while attempting to access the SSO database.

Along with the standard practice, it is advisable to go for highlighted changes updated in the flow chart to have a stable, high performing BizTalk Environment.

On BizTalk servers, update MaxUserPort and TCPTimeWaitDelay registry keys as perhttp://support.microsoft.com/?id=319502 and reboot servers.

On BizTalk SQL backend servers, set SynAttackProtect registry key to 0 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899599) , WinsockListenBacklog to 190 (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328476) and reboot servers.

We have seen above corrections along with following best practices can help to setup high performing physical /Hyper V BizTalk server 2009 or BizTalk 2010 servers for your business.

CPSLO: Saturday info

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William starts Falklands duties

Prince William starts work as an RAF search and rescue pilot in the Falkland Islands, having arrived in the territory on a six-week routine deployment.