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An error occured while trying to connect to the TPM Management Web ServiceFebruary 28, 2007 12:09While adding my BizTalk Server with the Business Activity Services Portal I received the error message “Cannot display BizTalk Hosts. An error occurred while trying to connect to the TPM Management Web Service. Contact your administrator for more information.” After some investigation I found out that the web service was not responding. Some general info on the web about the message “Service Unavailable” indicated that the security rights where not correctly setup. O boy. Security rights and user management is not my middle name. I always make a mess of that.
After my installation I changed the user password of the user account that runs the TpmWSAppPool in IIS. Fixing the Password under the Identity tab in the TpmWSAppPool solved the first part of the problem. But now I experienced a new error message. “Could not create Windows user token from the credentials specified in the config file. Error from the operating system ‘Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.” Again some problems with user rights. In the web.config of the web service I changed the line
Of course only change these settings at your development PC so you can quickly continue the development. You will probably be killed by some IT administrator if you configure it like this in production. If someone has instructions to configure this in a correct way, let me know. Yesterday I finished Week two of the BizTalk Class, which was all about the setup, configuration and new features. Microsoft learned a lot from the difficult 2002 to 2004 migration process and invested a lot of time in making the upgrade process from 2004 to 2006 as easy as possible. If you like to take some risks, you can upgrade to 2006 within a few clicks. Developers can take the advantage of Visual Studio 2005 as BizTalk Server 2006 is fully integrated with this Microsoft Developer environment. Ordered message processing and the improved failed message routing also come in handy. BizTalk 2006 is already on the market for some time, which makes some of the learning materials feel outdated as they speak about the BizTalk 2006 technical preview. Some of the online study urls present a “This page does no longer exist, we moved the page to a different address” webpage. Updating the course on this point would make the experience better, but for the learning part, this is not a problem. Very positive is that the teachers take the time to read your answers on the mini-test and they give personalized feedback on it. Last week the content was not completely new to me, making it easy to follow the pace. This week the course is covering the Improved Management en Operations of BizTalk, really new material for me. |
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The study material of the course consists mostly out of white papers, that can be found online and TechEd presentations that are accompanied by the voice-over of the original speakers. It is very nice that those presentation also includes video presentations of the demo’s.