posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 6:20 PM
by
Benjy
No respite even with SP2
Just a quick update. I applied SP2 and the necessary hotfixes and then the instructions to add some registry keys (which for some reason were already there!!). Anyway, i didnt have any problems with SSO, but it failed when configuring the Human Workflow Services runtime engine. [This is just like the earlier situations where the SSO succeeded only to fail in HWS and the next time SSO would fail and then HWS and so on].
Tried removing the HWS engines from the install and thought i would go with plain developer tools but no luck. The system complained of some problem in the version of the HWS database on the machine. So i just dropped the databases and uninstalled BizTalk. My poor brand new IBM T42 is taking a severe beating with all this installing and uninstalling.
Thats it for today. I gotta go home while its still Friday. My enthusiasm for BizTalk has been curbed drastically. If some of our clients werent keen on using it, i'd probably just throw it and walk away. But I've got to get this thing working even if it means taking my laptop to MS HQ in Reading and getting someone there to do the job.
ONE MORE THING
I forgot to add. I tried joining an existing BTS group (when configuring) and saying NO to the SSO master secret creation. Guess what ? Since you HAVE to install this as a local admin, i could not connect to the machine on the domain which had BTS and the SSO DB already installed!! Ah!! This Wizard (ConfigFramework) can even rival Saruman. It out-thinks you at every turn.!!