PRB: Error Message: No BizTalk Server Repository Was Found on http://localhost/BizTalkServerRepository/DocSpecs

When you try to view files from Web Distributed Authoring Version (WebDAV) in BizTalk Editor or BizTalk Mapper, you may receive the following error message:

The following factors might cause this problem:

• World Wide Web Publishing Services is not running.
• Settings are incorrect on the BizTalkServerRepository virtual directory.
• A "prerelease" version of Microsoft Office is installed on the system.
• An incorrect version of MSDAIPP.dll is present.
• You have configured BizTalk Editor or BizTalk Mapper to connect to http://servername of the IIS Server hosting your WebDAV repository (where servername is the NetBIOS name of the IIS Server that is hosting your WebDAV repository), you are using a proxy server, and you have not configured Microsoft Internet Explorer to Bypass proxy server for local addresses.
• You have installed BizTalk Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and you have not enabled the Web service extension for WebDAV.

To avoid this problem, do the following:

• Verify that Web Publishing Services is running. To do this, load the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-in for Internet Information Server. Right-click Default Web Site, and then make sure that Start is disabled. If Start is not disabled, click Start to start the default Web site.
• Verify that there is a virtual directory in Internet Information Server that is named BizTalkServerRepository. Also, verify that this virtual directory maps to the BizTalkServerRepository folder in your installation folder (for example, C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server\BizTalkServerRepository).
• Verify that the BizTalkServerRepository virtual directory has the following permissions selected:
  Read
  Write
  Directory Browsing
• Do not install a prerelease version of Microsoft Office.
• Verify that the version of MSDAIPP.dll is 8.103.2402.0. To do this, run the Regsvr32.exe tool from the command line to unregister and then reregister C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole db\MSDAIPP.dll and C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole db\MSDAURL.dll. The syntax for using Regsvr32.exe is: Regsvr32 [/u] [/s] <file name> where:
  • /u unregisters the file based on the <file name> argument.
  • /s registers the file in silent mode. This suppresses all messages.
  • <file name> is the complete path and file to be unregistered or registered.
  If you do not have Regsvr32.exe on your computer, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for information about how to obtain a copy of the file:
  267279  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/267279/EN-US/ ) ACC2000: Regsvr32.exe Available in Download Center
• If you have configured BizTalk Editor or BizTalk Mapper to connect to http://servername of the IIS Server that is hosting your WebDAV repository (where servername is the NetBIOS name of the IIS Server hosting your WebDAV repository), and you are using a proxy server, verify that you have configured Internet Explorer to Bypass proxy server for local addresses. To view this setting in Internet Explorer, do the following:
  1. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
  2. Click the Connections tab, and then click LAN Settings.
• To verify that you have basic WebDAV functionality on the server where your BizTalk WebDAV repository is located, follow the steps that appear in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  287402  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287402/ ) Troubleshooting Web Folders
• If you have installed BizTalk Server on Windows Server 2003, make sure that you have enabled the WebDAV Web service extension. To make sure that the WebDAV Web service extension is enabled for IIS, follow these steps:
  1. Run the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
  2. Click to select the Web Service Extensions folder, click to select WebDAV from the list, and then click Allow.
• On Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP, you may be able to use the Web Folders Repair utility (Webfldrs.msi) to restore WebDAV functionality:
  1. Start Windows Explorer.
  2. On the main disk drive, locate and then click the WINNT\System32 folder.
  3. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
  4. In the Folders Options dialog box, click the View tab.
  5. On the View tab, click to select the check box for Show Hidden Files, and then click OK.
  6. Locate and then double-click the webfldrs.msi file.
  7. Click Reinstall.
  8. When the installation has completed, restart the computer.
• If you have installed BizTalk Server 2002 on Windows Server 2003, you may have to install the Client Components for Backward-Compatible Document Libraries. For additional information about how to install these components, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  831707  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831707/ ) Error Message: No BizTalk Server Repository Was Found on "http://BizTalkServer"

Currently, BizTalk is designed to work with version 8.103.2402.0 of MSDAIPP.dll (WebDAV).

A prerelease version of Microsoft Office installs MSDAIPP.dll version 10.120.3405.0. Other prerelease Microsoft products may also install this version of the MSDAIPP.dll file.

Microsoft BizTalk Server was not tested with Beta releases of any Microsoft products. In some cases, you may have to reinstall all the programs on your server running Microsoft BizTalk Server, from the operating system up, to address problems that are introduced by installing Beta release products.