There is a new website in town called www.biztalkevents.com. This site gives an overview in the worldwide organized BizTalk related events. If you want to add an event you can do that here.

It’s always good to know what software is installed in our environment. Sometimes we need to know what version of BizTalk is installed or what version of the Adapter Pack, x86 or x64?

And preferably be able to get this list in an easy and automated way.

In an earlier post I posted a PowerShell script that automatically deploys BizTalk applications:

http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/index.php/item/44-installation-script

This version of the script stops when a older version of a BizTalk application that you are installing is detected. I had some discussions with other BizTalk admins and most of them wanted a ‘overwrite’ feature. I added this to a newer version of the script.

As Lex Hegt mentioned earlier in his post, most of the authors at BizTalkAdminsBlogging.com also contribute at TechNet.  Besides helping to improve or add new contents in existing Wiki articles, they have their personal blogs, help users in BizTalk Forums, contribute to other BizTalk communities, they also write new Wiki articles and add new scripts to the TechNet Galleries.

In my scripts I regularly check the status of host instances on a BizTalk system. For example, if I want to start a host instance in a script, I first check if it isn’t in started state already.

To show how you can check the status of a host instance, I created a small script. The scripts returns the state of all host instances on all servers in the array servers:

$servers = ("BizTalk2010n1", "BizTalk2010n2")