Sunday, June 29, 2014

Issues with upgrading BizTalk 2013 to R2

I just upgraded 2013 to 2013 R2.

These are the steps.

  1. I installed VS 2013 first which is required.
  2. I upgraded the HL7 Accelerator.
  3. Both upgrades went smoothly.

This are the issues I found.

When creating a new project or opening an existing project in VS 2013, I tried to add a two new schemas and a map.

As you can see in the following figures, the artifacts are missing. The only artifacts available are for HL7.


BizTalk Project Items
 
Schema Files
 

BTAHL7 Schemas
 

I tired this on two Azure VMs. First I upgrade 2013 Standard, Next I upgraded  R2 Standard to Enterprise. I created a new Azure BizTalk 2013 Developer VM and upgraded it to R2 after installing VS 2013. 

Same issue. 


Other Issues

  • .
  • The ESB Toolkit is now Version 2.3. You cannot upgrade. There is  no documentation on what is new in Version 2.3

Missing Documentation

  • The documentation is for the HL7 Accelerator is from BizTalk 2010 as shown below.
HL7 Accelerator Documentation for BizTalk 2013 R2

The BizTalk 2013 / BizTalk 2013 R2 documentation on MSDN states that the HL7 Accelerator now supports the following:

Provides capability to include free-text data as part of the message that can be processed by the HL7 pipelines  


 I cannot find any documentation for this feature anywhere. Nor are there any samples.

Since I work with HL7 this feature is important.

Hopefully the BizTalk Team will release a CU that will resolve these issue. Until then, I will stay with BizTalk 2013.

6 comments:

  1. Howard,
    I did a clean BizTalk 2013 R2 install and then installed the HL7 accelerator 64 bit.
    I can't find HL7 Logging service under services console. Is this a known issue or by design ?

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    1. The logging service doesn't exist in BTS 2013 R2 BTAHL7. Logging now occurs inside the BTAHL7 database and is accessible by querying the DB. Please see this MSDN post: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3002939

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  2. The configuration for the HL7 Logging Service in on the HL7 Configuration Console.
    64 Bit installation is for the MLLP Adapter.

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  3. The issue with the missing items in Visual Studio is due to VS2013 update 2. You can either uninstall it or update to VS2013 Update 3.

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