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.

We?ve had some changes in the DreamSpark program lately and the web site feels all different to me. So what I decided to do was to step though the process of first signing up for DreamSpark for students with Activations codes such as you get in a high school Dream Spark program of if you get a codefrom someone at Microsoft. The first step is easy ? head over tohttp://www.dreamspark.comand find the link (highlighted in yellow below) for how Dream Spark works for students.

Registration with DreamSpark

Clicking on that link gets you to this page where you find the sign up link (circled in red).

You will be asked to enter account information for your new DreamSpark account. Use the email address for a Windows Live ID (You can create one for free if you don?t already have one) Note that there are several options for verification. The Institution/School and ISIC Card options are for university students. If you are at a university and have a EDU email address you can use one of them. For most high school students we?ll be using the Activation code.

Pick a good password. The system wants letters, numbers and special characters so give it some thought. After this you will get an email to validate your address. Be sure and check the email account you used and validate the address before going further.

Registration with AppHub

Now jump over to the AppHub athttp://create.msdn.com/en-US/and sign up. Be sure to use the exact same Windows Live ID that you signed up to Dream Spark with. Why? Because AppHub is going to verify that you are a student who is allowed to register phones and submit apps to the marketplace for free. Free is good. You will get to a page like this one below. Be sure to select the right country and that you are a student. Also accept the terms and conditions.

Once you accept the system will attempt to verify you with Dream Spark. Assuming you validated your email and used the same Windows Live ID for both DreamSpark and the AppHub you should get the next screen to enter you personal details.

Be use to answer this all accurately. You may want to get paid for your software on the market place some day. 

Next you pick an avatar and a gamer tag. The gamer tag is used for the Xbox market place and if you have an existing gamer tag you should use that. If not now you can create a new one.

The activation registration will be sending your email another activation link. Yeah again. Just trying to make sure people are using real working email accounts.

Once you verify your email address you will get this screen and know that your account is all set up.

Now if you have a Windows Phone (and if you don?t go get one!) you can register it as a developer phone for free. This will let you test your apps on the real phone and not just on the emulator. The instructions for this are pretty clear athttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg588378(v=VS.92).aspxJust scroll down toRegistering Your Phone to Unlock It for Development

The weaknesses in this category are related to defensive techniques that are often misused, abused, or just plain ignored

CWE-306
Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CWE-862
Missing Authorization

CWE-798
Use of Hard-coded Credentials

CWE-311
Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

CWE-807
Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

CWE-250
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

CWE-863
Incorrect Authorization

CWE-732
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

CWE-327
Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

CWE-307
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

CWE-759
Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt

Reference:http://www.sans.org/top25-software-errors/#cat1

See my other blogs at:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/devschool
• http://blogs.msdn.com/research
• http://blogs.msdn.com/socal-sam
• http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlightgames

See my colleagues blogs at:

• Bruno Terkaly
• Bret Stateham
• Chris Avis
• Daniel Egan
• Dr. Doris Chen
• Harold Wong
• Jerry Nixon
• Joe Shirey
• Kenny Spade
• Matt Harrington
• Randy Guthrie

I'll post the communication as is.

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SUMMARY: "We have nothing more/new to tell you, but we'll keep you posted."

One thing is obvious -- they're really wanting someone to step up here. They clearly are feeling defensive about pulling out, and they are quite ready to stop being the villain....

In July 2010, I switched roles from Developer Platform Evangelism tobecome a Premier Field Engineer for SharePoint.  My role in DPE was amazing as it afforded me time for activities that I love, like participating in user groups, speaking at conferences, writing blogs, and sometimes posting videos to Channel9.  After joining PFE, I largely stopped those activities because I wanted to focus on the technology, immersing myself to succeed in my new role.  Occasionally I will still squeak a blog post out, maybe speak at a conference or two, but I am nowhere near as engaged with the community as I had been previously.

Going Through The Change

Our mission is to show our customers how to improve the health of their environment proactively, teaching them how to better manage and operate their environment.  We joke that the most successful PFE will work themselves out of a job, but that?s the whole point? if our customers don?t need our services any longer, we?ve succeeded.  Unfortunately, the technologies we work with are incredibly complex and provide many variations in the way our customers implement them.  Heck, SharePoint is a booming business for just that very reason.

PFE has some of the brightest minds in the industry within its group. These are people with deep troubleshooting skills, people who routinely work with customers to improve their experience with Microsoft products.  When your SharePoint farm goes down, SQL crashes, Exchange becomes unavailable, whatever the problem, these are the people who you work with to fix the issue and help prevent the issue from ever occurring again.  These are people who are very deep with the technology but don?t have experience with writing or public speaking.  Wouldn?t it be great to learn from someone with that depth of experience?

This past fall, Premier Field Engineering held a series of internal conferences called GeekReady. At this event, the General Manager for PFE, Shannan Collins, unveiled a new direction for PFE called?Heroes to Mentors?. There wasn?t much tactical information announced, it was very much a vision for where PFE is headed, in fact it was intentionally vague to tell the field to pick up the ball and run with it. Heroes to Mentors means changing the culture of PFE, something that is much more than an exec issuing an edict.  Heroes to Mentors implies change at every level within PFE, from the execs to the Directors to Managers to the engineers themselves.  It implies that engineers should work harder to share knowledge internally and continue to raise the technical capabilities of our team.  It implies that we work to share that knowledge externally with our customers and partners.  It means that we are given leeway to start doing many of the things that I loved so much from my days in DPE.

What?s In It For You

I hear regularly from user group leaders across the country asking for me to participate in events like SharePoint Saturday, speaking at a user group event, even speaking at conferences.  Often I have to decline since I don?t have a business reason to travel and afford the T&E.  The unfortunate part is that I don?t often pass that opportunity or introduction on to another PFE in that area to see if they might be interested.  I am changing that, and will be encouraging my peers to reach out to their local user group leaders to see how they can contribute.  I am also personally going to make an effort to participate in user group and SharePoint Saturday events more frequently.  While I still am not able to travel to as many events as I would like (I?m not flying to Antarctica, for instance), I am going to say no a whole lot less often.  And I am going to make sure to introduce other PFE folks in the area that will want to participate as well.

Another initiative that I am resurrecting is my Channel9 video blog.  No, there?s no new content there yet? I am working on the recordings to make sure that they are much more than marketing introductions.  I want to introduce you to some of the brightest folks in the industry, but also have them show you something valuable.  Just watchhttp://twitter.com/kaevansor this blog for announcements.  And if there are PFE that are reading this, look for announcements about opportunities to fulfill your Heroes to Mentors commitments

It?s not just me.  There are some PFE that are already heavily engaged in the community. This includes folks likeBob Fox,Ryan Campbell,Jason Gallicchio,Josh Gavant,Eric Harlan.  These guys are also working to draw some of our colleagues out of their hiding spaces.  We will be working to find better ways to make ourselves more accessible.  We are working internally to help folks get started, trying to find ways to better engage our colleagues, and working on ways that we can be more effective in creating content and sharing it with the rest of the community.  I have a few more things that I am not yet ready to share, but watch this space as we continue to make announcements.

There are many other projects that PFE works on that you are familiar with that have made amazing contributions to the community.  ThePAL toolwritten byClint Huffmanis a great example of a tool that PFE regularly uses for troubleshooting but some of our customers are not yet familiar with how to use the tool.  Folks likeGreg Varveris, who worked on theSPDisposeChecktool, are working on some fantastic new initiatives that our customersneedto see.  I can?t wait to show you what Greg is working on with fellow PFE Tom Fuller.  I am making the commitment to break out of my SharePoint shell and to start finding ways to show you what the rest of PFE is doing.

Looking Forward

This is just the beginning.  I am incredibly excited about this change. Admittedly, culture change is very difficult, and it will be slow as we move our colleagues from the mindset of being a hero to becoming a mentor both internally at Microsoft and externally with our customers, partners, and community. 

Many companies, ISV?s, and solutions have concerns about data in the cloud.  With PKI based encryption, Trust Services provides key management for your publisher/subscribers and a simplified SDK set of classes to abstract the encryption, decryption process.  Both managed classes and PowerShell add-in provided...

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I believe that the best way to learn is to learn from each other, so I?m always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. This is the story ofEpilogger.

Key Points

• [01:42] (Rationale behind using Windows Azure for storage)
  ?We needed some place that was not hosted by us because we have a limited amount of disk space, where we can store tons of photos, and that we can access them quickly. So the great thing aboutWindowsAzure is that we put them all up there, we get a URL back that we can use our own domain name on, and when we serve images back on the website, they come straight fromWindowsAzure. They don?t even come off our own web server, so we don?t have to worry about traffic that way.?
• [04:14](Moving large databases to SQL Azure, sharding, and a limitation of Table Storage)
  ?SQL Azure is limited to 10GB [NOTE: With the latest updates to the SQL Azure platform, the maximum database size is currently 150GB], so we would have toshardthat? table across a whole bunch of databases. That?s one thing we?ve thought about. We?ve also looked at simple Table Storage, which gave us the functionality of the mass amount of data, but didn?t necessarily give us the ability to do aggregate functions ? at least right now ? to be ableto report on that data.?
• [04:50](Examples of workloads possible to move to Windows Azure)
  ?? we do eventually want to scale beyond that server, so if we have all of these processes, we could throw those processes onWindowsAzure? like the worker processes and have them run all the time.?
• [05:40] (Continued rationale behind using Windows Azure Storage)
  ?We just didn?t want to manage that many photos and having to manage the storage of that many photos. Having hundreds and hundreds of gigs [to manage] and who knows how many and when it will ever stop. We also wanted that archive to be permanent, so we didn?t want to have to setup a whole backup strategy on our main server just for the images so they could be permanent, as well as serve them if that server is down. WithWindowsAzure we?ve thrown them all up there, they?re replicated all over, they are accessible quickly ? it?s a win-win.?
• [06:29] (Learning curve for a .NET developer to work with Windows Azure)
  ?As a .NET developer, I didn?t find it difficult at all. The blob storage is dead simple. You drop in the SDK (you download it, you install it), you reference the libraries, a few lines of code, you?re storing blobs, you?re getting back URLs, everything is good. Really really easy, really straight forward. Simple table storage was a little bit different. It took a little bit of time to wrap your head around the NoSQL thing and how to access entities and how to put entities up. It took a long time to figure out how to do aggregate stuff [functions and queries] because it wasn?t a function that was provided like you?re used to in SQL, like count of records or average of these rows.?
• [07:40] (Learning resources)
  ?The code samples were all right there in the SDK. That?s it. Justhttp://microsoft.com/azure, download the SDK, videos, code samples.?
• [08:21] (Managing hybrid? traditionally hosted components access/consuming Windows Azure services ? solutions)
  "[Do you find it difficult?] No, not at all.?
  

Relevant Architecture Points

• Hybrid solution? traditionally hosted components accessing/consuming Windows Azure services.
• Use of Windows Azure Storage for mass amounts of data, scalability, and performance.
• Use of Windows Azure platform to remove need for infrastructure management
• No need for backup or high availability strategies as a result of using Windows Azure (out of the box capabilities with Windows Azure)

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