Deleting BizTalk Resources with Application Center 2000

When replicating any of the built-in resources with Application Center 2000 to delete them on the target server, you need to have an Application Center application that contains them on the source server. Next, you remove the resource on the source server, leaving it in the application. Finally, you deploy the application to the remote server. Application Center 2000 makes sure that the target server is the same as the source. If you have a folder containing no files on the source and the target has several files in it, when you deploy the empty folder, the files in the folder on the target will be deleted. This is because Application Center 2000 works on the premise that the target is a clone of the source.

With BizTalk, cloning would be a problem. If you deployed all the BizTalk ports to a target server, and that server has any ports that are not on the source, they would be removed. The BizTalk drivers work differently. To delete BizTalk resources, you need to create an Application Center application that contains the resources to be deleted. You will need to select the specific resource by name, not just deploy the collection of that resource type, like if you deployed all the ports. Create the application before deleting the physical resource, but do not deploy it. Next delete the resources on the source cluster, leaving them in the application, and then deploy the application, which contains the resources to be deleted, to the target servers. When Application Center 2000 sees that the resource to be deployed is on the target and not the source, the resource will be removed.