Hi,
What is the best way to upgrade maps from 2002 to 2004? Is there a way to
convert the scripts within the maps as well?

Any help will be highly appreciated

Regards,
MNA

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Hello,

One way is to use the Biztalk Server Migration Project in VS2003 (which will
be available in VS2003 once you installed BTS2004).

Just open a new project of the type "Biztalk Server Migration Project" and
you will be presented with a wizard where you will have to choose the BTS
2002 Management Database. Then you will be able to migrate all your recieve
functions, port groups and ports.

You may need to backup the management database from your BTS 2002, which may
be named somthing like *****IntBTM, and restore it on you BTS2004 machine.
That is, if the 2002 machine cannot be reached from the 2004 machine.

Once successful, you will find the migrated items in a VS2003 project (which
is the new way of creating recieve functions and orchestrations etc.).

In my case, all scripts were made with vbscript and they weren't migrated at
all since in BTS 2004, you may use VB.Net instead (among others). You have
to change the scripts manually. I also noticed that some of my mappings were
a bit "modified" during the migration. Go through the solution and check all
mappings.

To deploy the maps and pipelines into BTS2004, you can deploy the schema
project by right-clicking on the project name a select deploy. This creates
the recieve locations (which is the new name for receive functions), the
send ports and all the other stuff you might have.

If you want to make changes to your items in the schema project, you have to
delete everything that uses them in BTS2004. Before deleting, you might want
to save all your settings, using the export function in the Biztalk
Deployment Wizard found here <BizTalk Server 2004 install
dir>\BTSDeployWiz.exe


That's quite a good start..

Good luck!

Mikael Östberg




"mna" <mna@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> What is the best way to upgrade maps from 2002 to 2004? Is there a way to
> convert the scripts within the maps as well?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated
>
> Regards,
> MNA
>
>

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Hi,
although the migration project is the best way, you can also just re-name a
bts2002 map from a .xml extension to a .btm extension. The 2004 Map editor
will notice it's a 2002 map - then extract the embedded schema and migrate
the map.
It doesn't work for 2002 edi maps but it's pretty good for all others.
m

"mna" wrote:

> Hi,
> What is the best way to upgrade maps from 2002 to 2004? Is there a way to
> convert the scripts within the maps as well?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated
>
> Regards,
> MNA
>
>
>

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