Redeploying BizTalk Resources After Making Changes

After deploying your BizTalk configuration, you might find the need to make changes to the source configuration, which will also need to be deployed. The only change that cannot be replicated is changing the path to a document definition. The BizTalk object model restricts any document that has been bound to a channel from having the path to its schema modified. Any other changes to a BizTalk configuration can be deployed by creating an Application Center application with those resources and deploying it to the target server.

Should you need to make a change to the path of a document, you will be able to make the change on the source and target, it will just take a little bit of planning. First create an application containing all the ports bound to channels using the document you need to modify. Next, delete all the channels bound to the document and the associated ports. Now deploy the application created so that the configurations will be deleted on the target computers.

With the object model restrictions being removed, with the deletion of the channels, you can now modify the path to the document without any problems. After making all the necessary changes, rebuild all the ports and channels using the documents. If the ports are the same name, just redeploy the application used to delete the configurations, and all your changes will be on the remote server, or just create a new application containing the ports to be deployed.