vrijdag 12 februari 2010

Speeding up the BizTalk Administrator MMC

I reached a patience limit when the BizTalk administrator took over 2 minutes from launch to showing me my application resources on my (rather slow) VM. I could not remember this ever taking that much time. Of course, BTA console never was a real fastloader, but this was getting excessive.

When I asked a co-worker to logon to the same machine and try the same actions, I was astonished see him do the same job on the same machine in less than 30 seconds. Clearly it was user, and thus, profile related.

I created a clean profile for myself to test this and was proven right. It took less than 30 seconds to get the app running and the resources loaded.

I then started to replace original content from my old profile and tested until I, again, reached a 2 minute+ loading time. Problem recreated, cause found.

It appears there is a settings file that controls, amongst others, the window and grid layout of the management console. Over time this file has grown in size from a mere 2kb default to over 600kb. Loading this file seemed to take too much resources and caused a delay that went to 2 minutes.

I simply deleted the file and things went back to normal. Here is the guilty party:
Microsoft.BizTalk.Administration.SnapIn.dll.config

You can find it in C:\Documents and Settings\-your account here-\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft Corporation\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\

5 opmerkingen:

  1. He Charles,

    You can change this to:

    C:\Documents and Settings\-your account here-\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft Corporation\Microsoft BizTalk Server -version-\


    Thanks!

    Sander

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  2. That is fantastic... On our DEV BizTalk server, it was taking several minutes to load up the Admin Console. With this fix, it pops open almost instantly.

    My config file was over 800KB.

    Any idea how it grows so big?

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  3. You would be surprised.... changing layouts of columns (order, width etc) will blow it up.

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  4. Excellent tip ... mine was up to 490kb and loading was really slow
    Deleted the file and the snap-in is "snappy" again

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