Useful programs for a BizTalk Administrator

There are a couple of programs that makes the day easier for a BizTalk Administrator.

MessageBox Viewer
This is a product from Microsoft. MessageBox Viewer simply does a quick and vital health check of your environment. Generates a report and a file for Terminiator (another program from Microsofts tech guys).

Its and easy to use GUI and should be run at least once a month to make sure everything is running smoothly.

If errors occurs there's usually an explanation behind the error on how to solve it!

MessageBox Viewer can be downloaded here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jpierauc/archive/2007/12/18/msgboxviewer.aspx

Terminator
This is another tool to do simple queries towards the BizTalk database to clean up some of the errors discovered in MessageBox Viewer eq. Orphan messages, tracking and so on.

Terminator for BizTalk can be downloaded here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalkcpr/archive/2009/10/01/biztalk-terminator-download-install-info.aspx

BizTalk Monitord
BizTalk Monitord is an open source monitor solution for BizTalk created by me. It gives you the information regarding the hosts, ports and receive locations. Easy to use, SMS warnings and so on. You can add many environments and users.

SMS warnings can be turned on if you use clickatell.

BizTalk Monitord can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biztalkmonitord/files/