System Center Operations Manager 2007 and BizTalk 2006 SQL Server Warning

Well, finally a post after the chaos that was the holidays. I was on vacation for 12 days and accomplished…nothing. Except for a lot of Counterstrike. And Team Fortress 2.

If you’re running SCOM 2007 and BizTalk 2006 (and have the SQL agent jobs properly configured) you may notice a warning in SCOM that says there are [...]

Biztalk Web Service Publishing Wizard Not Found

I found this helpful today. One of the developers called and said “I can’t find the Biztalk Web Service Publishing Utility.” Well, here’s how to [...]

Moving Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Databases to a new SQL Server

So, for whatever reason you need to move your BizTalk databases from one SQL server to another. In my case, I was moving from a hostname to a CNAME, for DR purposes (failover server is in another DC, and not clustered).

In the event of a disaster, we could just fail over to the other database server, change the CNAME to point to the “failover” server, and we should be back up and running. The problem, I found, was changing from DC1BTSQL1 to the CNAME (we’ll call it BTSQL1). After searching for a while (maybe I’m an idiot, but all of these things were classified as “backup and restore methods” not “I’m changing server name” methods or anything like that) I found two scripts and an xml file.

Under %systemdrive%\Program Files\Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006\Schema\Restore are two VBS scripts. UpdateDatabase.vbs and UpdateRegistry.vbs. There’s also an XML file called “SampleUpdateInfo.xml.” Below is the procedure for changing the SQL server name. You can even change the names of the DBs. This procudure assumes you’ve backed up and restored, or attached, the DBs to the “new” server already.

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