posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:56 PM
by
Benjy
Dr.Watson lied !!
SUCCESS !!! BizTalk 2004 is finally installed on my laptop.
Sherlock Holmes would have been ashamed of Dr.Watson and proud of me. I finally tracked this down :-)
Seriously, it appears that the Dr.Watson error message at the HWS config stage is actually a red herring. It doesnt mean anything. It doesnt roll back the installation and when I did a quick sanity test by compiling and running one of the SDK samples, it worked perfectly.
Now, I am not sure if the wretched thing actually played havoc with the internals of the HWS run time and once I get to the stage of HWS API development (which will be in a couple of days - given the short timescales I am looking at) I am sure to find out.
The Quickstart Guide to Installing BTS 2004 is really good. It works for XP SP2 as well. You just need to ensure that you have the extra hotfixes and do the registry changes for Sp2 and the rest is correct. Luke has also got another QuickStart for a developer sample and it even has a video to help build your first orchestration.
Whats actually quite alarming is that there is a specific SQL Server Hotfix for BTS which is a pretty large install and its nowhere in the BTS pre-requisite official list. And for some reason we appear to need MSXML 3.0 and well as 4.0 and, hold your breath, Office Web Components.
I am too tired to debate the infinite wisdom of the MS folk who decided that all these are required but not important enough to be on the official docs or the book.
For now, I am happy to have got the dratted thing installed. Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hope that the red-herring stays that way.