Errors and Warnings Causes and Solutions – SANDRO PEREIRA BIZTALK BLOG

When trying to deploy BAM definition by:

Open a command prompt as follows: Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
Navigate to the tracking folder by typing “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server <version>\Tracking” at the command prompt. Press ENTER.
Type “bm deploy-all -DefinitionFile:<BAM definition file>”
Press ENTER.

I got the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013\Tracking>bm.exe deploy-all -DefinitionFile:Tracking.xls
Microsoft (R) Business Activity Monitoring Utility Version 3.10.229.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Using ‘BAMPrimaryImport’ BAM Primary Import database on server ‘BIZTALK’…
Deploying Activity… Done.
Deploying View… ERROR: The BAM deployment failed.

Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Hour’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.

OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Week’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_DestinationParty’, Name of ‘MessageView_DestinationParty’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘DestinationPartyName’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_DestinationParty’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_PipCode’, Name of ‘MessageView_PipCode’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘PipCode’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_PipCode’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
Server: The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Year’ attributeof the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ”Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ActivityName’, Name of ‘MessageView_ActivityName’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘ActivityName’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ActivityName’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Day’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_SourceParty’, Name of ‘MessageView_SourceParty’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘SourcePartyName’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_SourceParty’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Minute’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.

CAUSE

The main reason for the error above happen is when the SQL Server service account does not have read access to BAMStarSchema database.

SOLUTION

To fix this issue you have two options.

First option:

Open SQL Server Management Studio and expand BAMStarSchema database
Expand “Security”, right-click on the “User” option, And select “New User…”
Configure the SQL Server service account to have db_datareader Role access as shown below

Second Option:

Open SQL Server Management Studio and execute the following script (Replacing the SQL Server service account)

USE BAMStarSchema
GO
EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader', 'Domain\SQL Server service account'
GO

Sometimes websites don’t look like you expect them to. Images might not appear, menus might be out of place, and text could be jumbled together. This might be caused by a compatibility problem between Internet Explorer and the site you’re on and most of the times this behavior can be fixed by adding the site to your Compatibility View list.

Compatibility View was introduced in Windows Internet Explorer 8 to help existing content continue to work with Windows Internet Explorer 7, while developers updated their content to support modern interoperable web standards. Well, unfortunately for us, BAM Portal never was updated and continues to have problems of compatibility.

As always one of the downsides of dealing with a new versions of products like IE and so on… is figuring out where some features/options have moved in this new release. And this exactly one of this cases…

“Starting with IE11, document modes are considered deprecated and should no longer be used. Webpages that require legacy document modes to display properly should be rewritten to use features defined by modern standards.” – Source: Specifying legacy document modes

For this reason, in Internet Explorer 11, the compatibility view button is removed from the address bar. Microsoft felt that the button had outlived his purpose because it’s been many years now since Microsoft introduced X-UA-Compatible tags. Web developers were supposed to add these X-UA-Compatible meta tags to their website’s HTML header to indicate web page compatibility and not leave it to the user to depend on the button to correctly render the page.

However, and fortunately for us BizTalkers, the compatibility view feature still remains in the browser.

You can turn it on or off by:

Click on the Settings icon in the top right corner of IE11 and select the “Compatibility View Settings” item in the drop-down menu

In the “Compatibility View Settings” box, add the problematic website URL – aka BAM Portal – and then click Add.

Compatibility View is turned on for this single website, for this specific computer.

Enable both check box “Display intranet sites in Compatibility View” and “Use Microsoft compatibility lists”, and then click Close.

Once you turn on Compatibility View, Internet Explorer will automatically show the BAM Portal in Compatibility View each time you visit fixing all the previous behaviors problems.

Well let’s go back to the topic: you are doing crazy things with your maps!

I was thinking that I had already seen it all, I was thinking that I had already seen it all, but the reality is that I continue to be blown away. While testing a project migration I end up catching this error:

Xlang/s engine event log entry: Uncaught exception (see the ‘inner exception’ below) has suspended an instance of service ‘[MY_ORCHESTRATION_NAME] (1582c665-816d-07db-3dee-1c6a750944a0)’.
The service instance will remain suspended until administratively resumed or terminated.
If resumed the instance will continue from its last persisted state and may re-throw the same unexpected exception.
InstanceId: 4e0d3e55-b481-442d-a2a4-9f4ee6e13fb7
Shape name: Create Client Msg
ShapeId: 0e4a8cba-c6a0-4a0f-ad94-574b2e8ab7ad
Exception thrown from: segment 1, progress 54

Inner exception: A failure occurred while evaluating the distinguished field [MY_FIELD_NAME] against the message part data. The message part data does not contain at least one of the nodes specified by the XPath expression (listed below) that corresponds to the distinguished field. The cause for this error may be that the message part data has not been initialized or that the message part data does not conform to the message part schema. Ensure that the message part data is initialized correctly. XPath expression: /*[local-name()=’ROOT_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=’NAMESPACE’]/*[local-name()=’MY_FIELD_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=”]

Exception type: XPathUpdateException
Source: Microsoft.XLANGs.Engine
Target Site: Void SetDistinguishedField(System.String, System.Object)
The following is a stack trace that identifies the location where the exception occurred
at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.XSDPart.SetDistinguishedField(String dottedPath, Object val)
at Siva.CRM.EAI.SIVOrchestration.Client.SIV_Client_ClientAccountSubscriber_UpdDel.segment1(StopConditions stopOn)
at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.SegmentScheduler.RunASegment(Segment s, StopConditions stopCond, Exception& exp)

I got curious to see that this problem, as the error specify clearly, was related to a distinguished field element and it was happening inside a Construct Message that was using a map.

CAUSE

The error details points for the cause of the problem and it is for sure something related to the XPath expression: /*[local-name()=’ROOT_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=’NAMESPACE’]/*[local-name()=’MY_FIELD_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=”], however, the cause may not be exactly the same.

In my case when I opened the map, I easily realize that the field that was promoted as distinguished field was being mapped twice, i.e., two source elements where being mapped to the same destination element what was causing this element to appear twice in the final message even though the destination element is defined as Max Occurs 1 and Min Occurs 0.

Of course you may know that distinguished fields are essentially XPath aliases, which simply point to the appropriate XML data field. They don’t have a size limitation but they only can appear once. You cannot promote a repeating element.

And you also should know that the map doesn’t validate the input or the output messages in runtime!

And the curious thing was that this particular distinguished field it was not being used inside the orchestration!

SOLUTION

The solution it easy for this case.

First:

Don’t promote elements that you are not really using or need to do some logic inside your orchestrations… If you don’t need them, don’t promote them. Distinguished fields cost less than Property Fields but they still have a cost for performance!

Second:

Fix the ma rule associated with this element. In my case I decide to remove the “nipc” rule and leave only the “accountId” direct link to the “EntityGuid”

Today while doing a BAM POC to one of my clients, I found a number of problems/errors, some of them unexpected and uncommon, while trying to deploy my BAM definition file.

In order to contextualize the problem, for this POC we are using only one BizTalk Server machine with BAM Portal, one dedicated SQL Server and Analysis Server and Integration Server in another dedicated server. So, more or less a simple Multi-Computer Environment.

In this post I will address the most unusual of them:

Deploying Activity… Done.
Deploying View… ERROR: The BAM deployment failed.
Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.ASTasks, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

CAUSE

Well, the cause the cause is quite obvious by its description. Microsoft.SqlServer.ASTasks assembly is missing or some of its dependencies, although, the environment has been installed, configured and functioning correctly, i.e., everything was working properly with exception of BAM deployment.

My first suspicion (which ultimately turned out to be right), and because, as I told before, SQL Server is remote was that not all the SQL Server Client Tools components were installed in the BizTalk Server machine.

This suspicion was confirmed when I open the SQL Server 2014 Management Studio console. Because the machine only had the “Management Tools – Basic” feature installed.

The “differences” between basic and complete are:

Management Tools – Basic: includes support for the Database Engine and SQL Server Express, SQL Server command-line utility (SQLCMD) and SQL Server PowerShell provider
Management Tools – Complete: as the name implies, you get it all. It adds support Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Integration Services technologies.

Because support for Analysis Services is required in BizTalk Server machines while deploying the view definition, this error occurs.

SOLUTION

To solve this problem, you must install also, on BizTalk Server machine, the “Management Tools – Complete” shared feature. To do that you need:

Clicking in the “Compatibility View” button that appears in the Address bar to display the site in Compatibility View.
Run SQL Server 2014 setup program.
On the SQL Server Installation Center, click Installation.
Click New Installation or Add Features to an Existing Installation.
Review the information on the Setup Support Rules screen, and then click OK.
On the Product Key screen, enter your product key and click Next.
On the License Terms screen, select I accept the license terms, and then click Next.
On the Setup Support Files screen, click Install.
On the Feature Selection screen, select the following features, and then click Next.

Shared Features

Management Tools – Basic
Management Tools – Complete

Once “Management Tools – Complete” is installed, you will be able to deploy your BAM definition file.

Today I’m returning to one of my favorites topics … no not transformations, this time is all about “Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions”.

Today I encountered the following issue when I was trying to connect to a remove SQL Server database:

“The local MS DTC detected that the MS DTC on <server name> has the same unique identity as the local MS DTC. This means that the two MS DTC will not be able to communicate with each other. This problem typically occurs if one of the systems were cloned using unsupported cloning tools. MS DTC requires that the systems be cloned using supported cloning tools such as SYSPREP. Running ‘msdtc -uninstall’ and then ‘msdtc -install’ from the command prompt will fix the problem. Note: Running ‘msdtc -uninstall’ will result in the system losing all MS DTC configuration information.”

CAUSE

The error message is quite lucid about the main reason of this error, this normally occurs when the machines are cloned: “…systems be cloned using supported cloning tools such as SYSPREP.”

SOLUTION

This is one of those very few cases that the error message will give us the actually cause of the problem and the solution: “Running ‘msdtc -uninstall’ and then ‘msdtc -install’ from the command prompt will fix the problem.”

So, to solve this problem you need to:

Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type “msdtc -uninstall”, and then press ENTER.
At the command prompt, type “msdtc -install”, and then press ENTER.

Note: To perform this procedure, you must have membership in Administrators, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

However, after I resolve this condition by uninstalling and then reinstalling the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service (MSDTC), when I access the BizTalk Administration Console and try to refresh (F5) the Group Hub Page I got this additional error:

“The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) may not be configured correctly. Ensure that the MSDTC service is running and DTC network access is allowed on the BizTalk, SQL and SSO Master servers. For more information, see "MSDTC Configuration settings required for BizTalk Server" in the BizTalk Server Help.”

I try to restart the MSDTC service or other services like the Enterprise Single Sign-On Service without any success… to avoid spending more time around this issue, and because this was a DEV standalone machine, I decided to restart the server… and that did the trick, after the restart everything was working without any problem.

Continuing with “Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions”, let’s talk today about a classic (and annoying) one:

“Error 87 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 88 at Microsoft.BizTalk.Gac.Fusion.IAssemblyCache.InstallAssembly(AssemblyCacheInstallFlag flags, String manifestFilePath, IntPtr referenceData)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Gac.Gac.InstallAssembly(String assemblyPathname, Boolean force)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.GacInstall(String assemblyLocation)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.PrivateDeploy(String server, String database, String assemblyPathname, String applicationName)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.Deploy(Boolean redeploy, String server, String database, String assemblyPathname, String group, String applicationName, ApplicationLog log)

Error 89 Unspecified exception: "

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))"

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 90 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 91 Failed to add resource(s). Change requests failed for some resources. BizTalkAssemblyResourceManager failed to complete end type change request. Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 93 Assembly "<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50" references the following assemblies that must be deployed before deploying this assembly:

Assembly "<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50"

Error 94 Deploy operation failed.

""

Assembly "<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50" references the following assemblies that must be deployed before deploying this assembly:

Assembly "<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50"”

while trying to deploy from Visual Studio a BizTalk solution.

This is actually very common in the recent versions of BizTalk Server, special because some additional securities setting present in recent Windows Server versions.

CAUSES

There are several possible causes for you to get access denied errors when deploying BizTalk solutions directly from Visual Studio. Here are some of the most common causes that you need to take in consideration and check for:

You are not a local Administrator: make sure you have administrator rights on the BizTalk server, this is required because BizTalk assemblies needs to be deployed into GAC;
You don’t have the right BizTalk privileges to deploy artifacts: Make sure the user account that is trying to deploy the Visual Studio BizTalk Solution is member of:

BizTalk Server Administrators group
And also, member of SSO Administrators or SSO Affiliate Administrators group

This is required because BizTalk artifacts needs to be “registered” in BizTalk databases and these memberships should grant you the required access to the databases;

Visual Studio BizTalk Deployment properties are incorrect: Visual Studio use the setting present in Deployment tab of each BizTalk project present in the visual studio solution to correctly deploy the artifacts (dlls). You should verify that your deployment configurations are correct by right-clicking the project in Visual Studio, selecting “Properties” and then click the Deployment tab. The most important properties that you need to check should be “Configuration Database” and “Server”, validate if they are what you expect them to be, and you should also check the “Application Name” property. Check more about Deployment Properties here: How to Set Deployment Properties in Visual Studio;
You are not running Visual Studio as administrator: If you have UAC activate, or sometimes even disactivated, there are some additional securities setting present in recent Windows Server versions that, by default, doesn’t run Visual Studio with elevate permissions. Again, this is required because BizTalk assemblies needs to be deployed into GAC;
Some process is locking the files: in some situations, some other processes, other Visual Studios or BizTalk Host Instances, may have a lock on the file(s) you are trying to replace, in these cases, stopping or restarting these services before deploying the solution should help.

SOLUTIONS

In the causes, I already described the basic steps to solve this error based on the situation you are in, so I will not address in detail here all the possible solution. In my case, and I think that is the most common situation, was that, despite having disabled the UAC, I was running the Visual Studio without elevate permissions.

There are several ways to solve this problem (running Visual Studio with elevate permissions), the simple way of course is to:

On the Start screen, type Visual Studio.
Right-click under Visual Studio and choose “Run as administrator” option.

The problem of this approach is that I need to remember myself to do it whenever I want to run Visual Studio, otherwise, the next time it will fail again with the same error.

To resolve once and for all, you can opt for two approaches:

Option one:

Access to the devenv.exe file on the file system, for example: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE”
Right-click devenv.exe and select "Troubleshoot compatibility".

On the “Select troubleshooting option” page, select "Troubleshoot compatibility" option.

On the “What problems do you notice?” page, select the "The program requires additional permissions" option and then click “Next”

On the “Test compatibility settings for the progem” page, click "Test the program…", wait for the program to launch and then click "Next".
Select "Yes, save these settings for this program"
and then click "Close"

Option two:

Right click the Visual Studio icon and select “Properties” option
On the Visual Studio … Properties windows select the “Shortcut” tab and then click “Advanced…” button
On the “Advanced Properties” window, check “Run as administrator” option and then click “OK”

Back to the Visual Studio … Properties windows, click “OK”

Being in The Netherland for the first time and provably inspired by the cold outside my hotel room, that discourages any "reasonable person" to walk in streets of Arnhem at night, let’s talk about another familiar problem that can occur in BizTalk Server. The error that I will address today is quite normal to appear when we are trying to apply Cumulative Updates (CU), and is probably transversal to all versions, in our BizTalk environment. I got it recently while I was trying to apply BizTalk Server 2013 R2 CU1:

“Failed to stop service WINMGMT”

Be aware that for example BizTalk Server Administration console relies on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI); more specifically, the BizTalk WMI Provider (BTSWMIProvider.dll).

WMI runs as a service with the display name "Windows Management Instrumentation" and the service name "winmgmt". WMI runs automatically at system startup under the LocalSystem account. If WMI is not running, it automatically starts when the first management application or script requests connection to a WMI namespace.

CAUSES

I actually don’t know the reasons that sometimes this problem occurs. Maybe we don’t “force” to run the setup “as an administrator” or because some of the dependent services failed to stop for some specific reason.

Normally, the CU setup will try to stop all the necessary or required services before it started to install the updates. But sometimes, to successfully install some of the cumulative updates, you should manually stop some of the following services before you start the installation:

Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) (Service Name: ENTSSO)
IIS Admin Service (Service Name: IISADMIN)
Windows Management Instrumentation (Service Name: Winmgmt)

Note: To determine whether there are any WMI processes active, use Windows Task Manager. Or, run the tasklist command from the Command Prompt and check whether "WmiPrvSE.exe" exists.

SOLUTION

You can easily solve this problem by manually stopping the Windows Management Instrumentation service (Winmgmt):

Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
Right-click Command prompt, and then click “Run as administrator”.

Or, in the Start Search box, type cmd, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.

At a command prompt, enter “net stop winmgmt”.

Note: if you don’t open command prompt as administrator you may end receiving an “Access is denied” message.

First of all, Happy birthday BizTalk Server for your 16th birthday! For does you don’ remember, the first version of BizTalk Server was release 12/12/2000, Congratulations!!

Continuing with the topic of my last posts “Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions”, we will talk about an error that I face today using the BizTalk Server WCF adapter while trying to communicate with an external WCF service:

“System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: There was no endpoint listening at http://<ip/host name>/<ServiceName>.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details. —> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server —> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8888
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Exception& exception)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult, TransportContext& context)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpOutput.WebRequestHttpOutput.GetOutputStreamAsyncResult.CompleteGetRequestStrea”

If this problem happens, it normally means that the IP address or host name specify in the URL exists but: it has no services listening on the specified port or there is a firewall stopping you.

However, I try to open the URL using the browser in the BizTalk machine and I was able to access without any problem, which means, it wasn’t a firewall problem and the service exist on that specific port.

CAUSES

Again, this type of problem normally means that the IP address or host name specify in the URL exists but:

It has no services listening on the specified port;
Or there is a firewall stopping you.

But… it also can be a proxy problem that may be blocking the access to the service! In fact, this was my problem.

SOLUTION

I will not address the first two possible causes here, instead I will focus in what was my problem, proxies, and how can you solve it.

On the HTTP Transport bindings of the WCF adapter there are several properties to control the proxy, like:

proxyAddress: A URI that specifies the address of the HTTP proxy. If useSystemWebProxy is true, this setting must be null. The default is null.
proxyAuthenticationSchema: Specifies the protocol used for authenticating client requests being processed by an HTTP proxy. The default is Anonymous.
bypassProxyOnLocal: A Boolean value that indicates whether to bypass the proxy server for local addresses. The default is false.

and others properties. But also, contains a very important property: useDefaultWebProxy – this is a Boolean value that specifies whether the machine-wide proxy settings are used rather than the user specific settings. The default is true.

But how can you know there is a proxy set on the server?

You can check this using one of this two option:

You can open Command Prompt (CMD) and type the following command:

reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" | find /i "proxyserver"

Or Open the Internet Explorer and click the Tools button.

Click on Internet Options and then click on the Connections tab.
Click “LAN settings”.

You can also click in “Advanced” to check more details

If you notice in the pictures there is a default proxy set in the server and there are some exceptions defined in the Internet Explorer, a few names and some IPs. One of this IP’s was in fact the IP of the machine that was hosting the service that I was trying to communicate.

In my case to solve the problem I just need to set the useDefaultWebProxy property in the HTTP transport bindings of my WCF port to false.

A few weeks ago, while improving an existing solution to fulfil the new business requirements, I encountered the following error while trying to validate or test a BizTalk map:

“Exception Caught: The map contains a reference to a schema node that is not valid. Perhaps the schema has changed. Try reloading the map in the BizTalk Mapper. The XSD XPath of the node is: /*[local-name()='<Schema>’]/*[local-name()=’MyRootNode’]/*[local-name()=’MyRecord]/*[local-name()=’MyElement’]”

To contextualize the problem, the BizTalk Visual Studio solution I was working on was composed by several projects, but for the propose of this error, let’s say that we had two projects:

Schemas Project: containing all the schemas used by the BizTalk Solution;
Map Project: containing all the maps used by the BizTalk Solution;

I did the necessary changes on the source schema and they were automatically reflected in the map that I was working on without the need to rebuild the Schema Project. And when I try to test the map, after making all the necessary changes on it, I got the above error.

Which was a little awkward at the point because indeed I changed the contract of the source schema but it was reflect in the map that I was working on. Everything seemed fine, I even try to close and open the map again, but that did not solve the problem

CAUSES

Again, the reason for this error is awkward because the schemas changes were reflected on the map, even if it was a different solution and without rebuilding the Schema Solution. However, the cause for this error is that is referring an invalid or incorrect version of the Schema assembly.

SOLUTION

The solution to solve this issue is simple, you just need to rebuild the entire solution or rebuild the schema project before you try to validate or test the maps.

After the Schema project solution is rebuild the problem will disappear and you will be able to validate or test the map.

While researching for my last post, Thinking outside the box (or not): How to create “Global C# function” to be reused inside a map?, in BizTalk360 blog, I encountered several errors while playing around with maps in order to find an approach that would allow me to create the concept of Global Function. And some of this errors were:

“Inline Script Error: must declare a body because it is not marked abstract, extern, or partial”

“Inline Script Error: ; expected”

“Inline Script Error: Type ‘BizTalkMapper.FunctoidInlineScripts’ already defines a member called ‘FunctionName’ with the same parameter types”

CAUSES

The cause for this problem is that you are not correctly declare the body of the Inline C# Function.

Or, if you are trying to reuse an existing Inline C# Function you are doing it properly.

To reuse Inline C# Functions this are the rules that you need to follow:

If all of the Scripting Functoids are in the same grid page: In the first Scripting Functoid, linked from the source to the destination, we will have to specify the body function and in the following functoids, we only need the function declaration (no body).
If the Scripting Functoids are in different grid pages: The Scripting Functoid that specifies the body function needs to be on the leftmost grid page and the remaining Scripting Functoids (with the function body declared) on the other grid pages to the right. In other words, counting the grid pages from left to right, if the Scripting Functoid that specifies the body function is on the second grid page, the remaining functoids with the function body declared, cannot be placed on the first grid page, they can only be placed from the second grid page (including the second).

SOLUTION

The solution to solve this issue you have two options, you need to follow the rules described above (BizTalk Mapper tips and tricks: How to reuse Scripting Functoids with Inline C# inside the same map) or you need to implement the concept of global C# Function described in my post: Thinking outside the box (or not): How to create “Global C# function” to be reused inside a map?, in resume:

Add a Grid page to your map and rename it to “GlobalFunctions”
Set this grid as the first grid page of your map (important steap)
Drag-and-Drop a Scripting Functoid to the “GlobalFunctions” grid page and place the C# code
Do not link any inputs and don’t map (link) this Scripting Functoids to any element in the destination Schema.
Double click the earlier Scripting Functoids added to the “GlobalFunctions” grid page and set the expected input values as empty constant values, that by default doesn’t exist
Now you can use these functions in other grid pages using only the function declaration

When trying to deploy BAM definition by:

Open a command prompt as follows: Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
Navigate to the tracking folder by typing “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server <version>\Tracking” at the command prompt. Press ENTER.
Type “bm deploy-all -DefinitionFile:<BAM definition file>”
Press ENTER.

I got the following error:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013\Tracking>bm.exe deploy-all -DefinitionFile:Tracking.xls
Microsoft (R) Business Activity Monitoring Utility Version 3.10.229.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Using ‘BAMPrimaryImport’ BAM Primary Import database on server ‘BIZTALK’…
Deploying Activity… Done.
Deploying View… ERROR: The BAM deployment failed.

Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Hour’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.

OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Week’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_DestinationParty’, Name of ‘MessageView_DestinationParty’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘DestinationPartyName’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_DestinationParty’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_PipCode’, Name of ‘MessageView_PipCode’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘PipCode’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_PipCode’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
Server: The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Year’ attributeof the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ”Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ActivityName’, Name of ‘MessageView_ActivityName’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘ActivityName’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ActivityName’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Day’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_SourceParty’, Name of ‘MessageView_SourceParty’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘SourcePartyName’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_SourceParty’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘Domain\UserAccount’.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘bam_MessageView’, Name of ‘bam_MessageView’.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’, Name of ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the ‘Minute’ attribute of the ‘MessageView_ProcessDate’ dimension from the ‘BAMAnalysis’ database was being processed.

Cause

The main reason for the error above happen is when the SQL Server service account does not have read access to BAMStarSchema database.

Solution

To fix this issue you have two options.

First option:

Open SQL Server Management Studio and expand BAMStarSchema database
Expand “Security”, right-click on the “User” option, And select “New User…”
Configure the SQL Server service account to have db_datareader Role access as shown below

Second Option:

Open SQL Server Management Studio and execute the following script (Replacing the SQL Server service account)

USE BAMStarSchema
GO
EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader', 'Domain\SQL Server service account'
GO

However, and fortunately for us BizTalkers, the compatibility view feature still remains in the browser.

You can turn it on or off by:

Click on the Settings icon in the top right corner of IE11 and select the “Compatibility View Settings” item in the drop-down menu

In the “Compatibility View Settings” box, add the problematic website URL – aka BAM Portal – and then click Add.
- Compatibility View is turned on for this single website, for this specific computer.
Enable both check box “Display intranet sites in Compatibility View” and “Use Microsoft compatibility lists”, and then click Close.

Once you turn on Compatibility View, Internet Explorer will automatically show the BAM Portal in Compatibility View each time you visit fixing all the previous behaviors problems.

Well let’s go back to the topic: you are doing crazy things with your maps!

Xlang/s engine event log entry: Uncaught exception (see the ‘inner exception’ below) has suspended an instance of service ‘[MY_ORCHESTRATION_NAME] (1582c665-816d-07db-3dee-1c6a750944a0)’.
The service instance will remain suspended until administratively resumed or terminated.
If resumed the instance will continue from its last persisted state and may re-throw the same unexpected exception.
InstanceId: 4e0d3e55-b481-442d-a2a4-9f4ee6e13fb7
Shape name: Create Client Msg
ShapeId: 0e4a8cba-c6a0-4a0f-ad94-574b2e8ab7ad
Exception thrown from: segment 1, progress 54

Inner exception: A failure occurred while evaluating the distinguished field [MY_FIELD_NAME] against the message part data. The message part data does not contain at least one of the nodes specified by the XPath expression (listed below) that corresponds to the distinguished field. The cause for this error may be that the message part data has not been initialized or that the message part data does not conform to the message part schema. Ensure that the message part data is initialized correctly. XPath expression: /*[local-name()=’ROOT_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=’NAMESPACE’]/*[local-name()=’MY_FIELD_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=”]

Exception type: XPathUpdateException
Source: Microsoft.XLANGs.Engine
Target Site: Void SetDistinguishedField(System.String, System.Object)
The following is a stack trace that identifies the location where the exception occurred
at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.XSDPart.SetDistinguishedField(String dottedPath, Object val)
at Siva.CRM.EAI.SIVOrchestration.Client.SIV_Client_ClientAccountSubscriber_UpdDel.segment1(StopConditions stopOn)
at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.SegmentScheduler.RunASegment(Segment s, StopConditions stopCond, Exception& exp)

I got curious to see that this problem, as the error specify clearly, was related to a distinguished field element and it was happening inside a Construct Message that was using a map.

Cause

And you also should know that the map doesn’t validate the input or the output messages in runtime!

And the curious thing was that this particular distinguished field it was not being used inside the orchestration!

Solution

The solution it easy for this case.

First:

Don’t promote elements that you are not really using or need to do some logic inside your orchestrations… If you don’t need them, don’t promote them. Distinguished fields cost less than Property Fields but they still have a cost for performance!

Second:

Fix the ma rule associated with this element. In my case I decide to remove the “nipc” rule and leave only the “accountId” direct link to the “EntityGuid”

Today while doing a BAM POC to one of my clients, I found a number of problems/errors, some of them unexpected and uncommon, while trying to deploy my BAM definition file.

In this post I will address the most unusual of them:

Deploying Activity… Done.
Deploying View… ERROR: The BAM deployment failed.
Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.ASTasks, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Cause

This suspicion was confirmed when I open the SQL Server 2014 Management Studio console. Because the machine only had the “Management Tools – Basic” feature installed.

The “differences” between basic and complete are:

Management Tools – Basic: includes support for the Database Engine and SQL Server Express, SQL Server command-line utility (SQLCMD) and SQL Server PowerShell provider
Management Tools – Complete: as the name implies, you get it all. It adds support Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Integration Services technologies.

Because support for Analysis Services is required in BizTalk Server machines while deploying the view definition, this error occurs.

Solution

To solve this problem, you must install also, on BizTalk Server machine, the “Management Tools – Complete” shared feature. To do that you need:

Clicking in the “Compatibility View” button that appears in the Address bar to display the site in Compatibility View.
Run SQL Server 2014 setup program.
On the SQL Server Installation Center, click Installation.
Click New Installation or Add Features to an Existing Installation.
Review the information on the Setup Support Rules screen, and then click OK.
On the Product Key screen, enter your product key and click Next.
On the License Terms screen, select I accept the license terms, and then click Next.
On the Setup Support Files screen, click Install.
On the Feature Selection screen, select the following features, and then click Next.
- Shared Features
  - Management Tools – Basic
  - Management Tools – Complete

Once “Management Tools – Complete” is installed, you will be able to deploy your BAM definition file.

Today I’m returning to one of my favorites topics … no not transformations, this time is all about “Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions”.

Today I encountered the following issue when I was trying to connect to a remove SQL Server database:

“The local MS DTC detected that the MS DTC on <server name> has the same unique identity as the local MS DTC. This means that the two MS DTC will not be able to communicate with each other. This problem typically occurs if one of the systems were cloned using unsupported cloning tools. MS DTC requires that the systems be cloned using supported cloning tools such as SYSPREP. Running ‘msdtc -uninstall’ and then ‘msdtc -install’ from the command prompt will fix the problem. Note: Running ‘msdtc -uninstall’ will result in the system losing all MS DTC configuration information.”

Cause

The error message is quite lucid about the main reason of this error, this normally occurs when the machines are cloned: “…systems be cloned using supported cloning tools such as SYSPREP.”

Solution

So, to solve this problem you need to:

Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type “msdtc -uninstall”, and then press ENTER.
At the command prompt, type “msdtc -install”, and then press ENTER.

Note: To perform this procedure, you must have membership in Administrators, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

“The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) may not be configured correctly. Ensure that the MSDTC service is running and DTC network access is allowed on the BizTalk, SQL and SSO Master servers. For more information, see “MSDTC Configuration settings required for BizTalk Server” in the BizTalk Server Help.”

Continuing with “Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions”, let’s talk today about a classic (and annoying) one:

“Error 87 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 88 at Microsoft.BizTalk.Gac.Fusion.IAssemblyCache.InstallAssembly(AssemblyCacheInstallFlag flags, String manifestFilePath, IntPtr referenceData)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Gac.Gac.InstallAssembly(String assemblyPathname, Boolean force)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.GacInstall(String assemblyLocation)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.PrivateDeploy(String server, String database, String assemblyPathname, String applicationName)

at Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.BizTalkAssembly.Deploy(Boolean redeploy, String server, String database, String assemblyPathname, String group, String applicationName, ApplicationLog log)

Error 89 Unspecified exception: ”

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))”

Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 90 Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 91 Failed to add resource(s). Change requests failed for some resources. BizTalkAssemblyResourceManager failed to complete end type change request. Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Error 93 Assembly “<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50” references the following assemblies that must be deployed before deploying this assembly:

Assembly “<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50”

Error 94 Deploy operation failed.

“”

Assembly “<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50” references the following assemblies that must be deployed before deploying this assembly:

Assembly “<name of the assembley>, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6d6ddb8f4f8e0e50″”

while trying to deploy from Visual Studio a BizTalk solution.

This is actually very common in the recent versions of BizTalk Server, special because some additional securities setting present in recent Windows Server versions.

Causes

You are not a local Administrator: make sure you have administrator rights on the BizTalk server, this is required because BizTalk assemblies needs to be deployed into GAC;
You don’t have the right BizTalk privileges to deploy artifacts: Make sure the user account that is trying to deploy the Visual Studio BizTalk Solution is member of:
- BizTalk Server Administrators group
- And also, member of SSO Administrators or SSO Affiliate Administrators group

This is required because BizTalk artifacts needs to be “registered” in BizTalk databases and these memberships should grant you the required access to the databases;

Visual Studio BizTalk Deployment properties are incorrect: Visual Studio use the setting present in Deployment tab of each BizTalk project present in the visual studio solution to correctly deploy the artifacts (dlls). You should verify that your deployment configurations are correct by right-clicking the project in Visual Studio, selecting “Properties” and then click the Deployment tab. The most important properties that you need to check should be “Configuration Database” and “Server”, validate if they are what you expect them to be, and you should also check the “Application Name” property. Check more about Deployment Properties here: How to Set Deployment Properties in Visual Studio;
You are not running Visual Studio as administrator: If you have UAC activate, or sometimes even disactivated, there are some additional securities setting present in recent Windows Server versions that, by default, doesn’t run Visual Studio with elevate permissions. Again, this is required because BizTalk assemblies needs to be deployed into GAC;
Some process is locking the files: in some situations, some other processes, other Visual Studios or BizTalk Host Instances, may have a lock on the file(s) you are trying to replace, in these cases, stopping or restarting these services before deploying the solution should help.

Solutions

There are several ways to solve this problem (running Visual Studio with elevate permissions), the simple way of course is to:

On the Start screen, type Visual Studio.
Right-click under Visual Studio and choose “Run as administrator” option.

The problem of this approach is that I need to remember myself to do it whenever I want to run Visual Studio, otherwise, the next time it will fail again with the same error.

To resolve once and for all, you can opt for two approaches:

Option one:
- Access to the devenv.exe file on the file system, for example: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE”
- Right-click devenv.exe and select “Troubleshoot compatibility”.

On the “Select troubleshooting option” page, select “Troubleshoot compatibility” option.

On the “What problems do you notice?” page, select the “The program requires additional permissions” option and then click “Next”

On the “Test compatibility settings for the progem” page, click “Test the program…”, wait for the program to launch and then click “Next”.
Select “Yes, save these settings for this program”
and then click “Close”

Option two:
- Right click the Visual Studio icon and select “Properties” option
- On the Visual Studio … Properties windows select the “Shortcut” tab and then click “Advanced…” button
- On the “Advanced Properties” window, check “Run as administrator” option and then click “OK”

Back to the Visual Studio … Properties windows, click “OK”

Being in The Netherland for the first time and provably inspired by the cold outside my hotel room, that discourages any “reasonable person” to walk in streets of Arnhem at night, let’s talk about another familiar problem that can occur in BizTalk Server. The error that I will address today is quite normal to appear when we are trying to apply Cumulative Updates (CU), and is probably transversal to all versions, in our BizTalk environment. I got it recently while I was trying to apply BizTalk Server 2013 R2 CU1:

“Failed to stop service WINMGMT”

Be aware that for example BizTalk Server Administration console relies on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI); more specifically, the BizTalk WMI Provider (BTSWMIProvider.dll).

WMI runs as a service with the display name “Windows Management Instrumentation” and the service name “winmgmt”. WMI runs automatically at system startup under the LocalSystem account. If WMI is not running, it automatically starts when the first management application or script requests connection to a WMI namespace.

Causes

Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) (Service Name: ENTSSO)
IIS Admin Service (Service Name: IISADMIN)
Windows Management Instrumentation (Service Name: Winmgmt)

Note: To determine whether there are any WMI processes active, use Windows Task Manager. Or, run the tasklist command from the Command Prompt and check whether “WmiPrvSE.exe” exists.

Solution

You can easily solve this problem by manually stopping the Windows Management Instrumentation service (Winmgmt):

Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
Right-click Command prompt, and then click “Run as administrator”.
- Or, in the Start Search box, type cmd, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.
At a command prompt, enter “net stop winmgmt”.

Note: if you don’t open command prompt as administrator you may end receiving an “Access is denied” message.

First of all, Happy birthday BizTalk Server for your 16th birthday! For does you don’ remember, the first version of BizTalk Server was release 12/12/2000, Congratulations!!

“System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: There was no endpoint listening at http://<ip/host name>/<ServiceName>.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details. —> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server —> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8888
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Exception& exception)

— End of inner exception stack trace —

at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult, TransportContext& context)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpOutput.WebRequestHttpOutput.GetOutputStreamAsyncResult.CompleteGetRequestStrea”

If this problem happens, it normally means that the IP address or host name specify in the URL exists but: it has no services listening on the specified port or there is a firewall stopping you.

Causes

Again, this type of problem normally means that the IP address or host name specify in the URL exists but:

It has no services listening on the specified port;
Or there is a firewall stopping you.

But… it also can be a proxy problem that may be blocking the access to the service! In fact, this was my problem.

Solution

I will not address the first two possible causes here, instead I will focus in what was my problem, proxies, and how can you solve it.

On the HTTP Transport bindings of the WCF adapter there are several properties to control the proxy, like:

proxyAddress: A URI that specifies the address of the HTTP proxy. If useSystemWebProxy is true, this setting must be null. The default is null.
proxyAuthenticationSchema: Specifies the protocol used for authenticating client requests being processed by an HTTP proxy. The default is Anonymous.
bypassProxyOnLocal: A Boolean value that indicates whether to bypass the proxy server for local addresses. The default is false.

But how can you know there is a proxy set on the server?

You can check this using one of this two option:

You can open Command Prompt (CMD) and type the following command:

reg query “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings” | find /i “proxyserver”

Or Open the Internet Explorer and click the Tools button.
- Click on Internet Options and then click on the Connections tab.
- Click “LAN settings”.

You can also click in “Advanced” to check more details

In my case to solve the problem I just need to set the useDefaultWebProxy property in the HTTP transport bindings of my WCF port to false.

A few weeks ago, while improving an existing solution to fulfil the new business requirements, I encountered the following error while trying to validate or test a BizTalk map:

“Exception Caught: The map contains a reference to a schema node that is not valid. Perhaps the schema has changed. Try reloading the map in the BizTalk Mapper. The XSD XPath of the node is: /*[local-name()='<Schema>’]/*[local-name()=’MyRootNode’]/*[local-name()=’MyRecord]/*[local-name()=’MyElement’]”

To contextualize the problem, the BizTalk Visual Studio solution I was working on was composed by several projects, but for the propose of this error, let’s say that we had two projects:

Schemas Project: containing all the schemas used by the BizTalk Solution;
Map Project: containing all the maps used by the BizTalk Solution;

Causes

Solution

The solution to solve this issue is simple, you just need to rebuild the entire solution or rebuild the schema project before you try to validate or test the maps.

After the Schema project solution is rebuild the problem will disappear and you will be able to validate or test the map.

“Inline Script Error: must declare a body because it is not marked abstract, extern, or partial”

“Inline Script Error: ; expected”

“Inline Script Error: Type ‘BizTalkMapper.FunctoidInlineScripts’ already defines a member called ‘FunctionName’ with the same parameter types”

Causes

The cause for this problem is that you are not correctly declare the body of the Inline C# Function.

Or, if you are trying to reuse an existing Inline C# Function you are doing it properly.

To reuse Inline C# Functions this are the rules that you need to follow:

If all of the Scripting Functoids are in the same grid page: In the first Scripting Functoid, linked from the source to the destination, we will have to specify the body function and in the following functoids, we only need the function declaration (no body).
If the Scripting Functoids are in different grid pages: The Scripting Functoid that specifies the body function needs to be on the leftmost grid page and the remaining Scripting Functoids (with the function body declared) on the other grid pages to the right. In other words, counting the grid pages from left to right, if the Scripting Functoid that specifies the body function is on the second grid page, the remaining functoids with the function body declared, cannot be placed on the first grid page, they can only be placed from the second grid page (including the second).

Solution

Add a Grid page to your map and rename it to “GlobalFunctions”
Set this grid as the first grid page of your map (important steap)
Drag-and-Drop a Scripting Functoid to the “GlobalFunctions” grid page and place the C# code
Do not link any inputs and don’t map (link) this Scripting Functoids to any element in the destination Schema.
Double click the earlier Scripting Functoids added to the “GlobalFunctions” grid page and set the expected input values as empty constant values, that by default doesn’t exist
Now you can use these functions in other grid pages using only the function declaration