Trailing white spaces are removed from a promoted property if tracking is disabled in BizTalk Server 2006

Consider the following scenario in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006.

• You create a BizTalk orchestration that uses custom code to aggregate correlated messages into a single message.
• There are trailing whitespaces in a promoted property of the input message.
• You turn off tracking for the orchestration.

In this scenario, after the messages are received and processed by BizTalk Server, the trailing whitespaces may be removed in the output message.
Note This problem does not occur if you turn on tracking for the orchestration. For example, if you turn on tracking for the "Orchestration start and end" and "Message send and receive" events, this problem does not occur.

This problem occurs because of an error in the BizTalk Server messaging engine.

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

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Prerequisites

You must have BizTalk Server 2006 installed to apply this hotfix.

Restart requirement

You must restart your computer after apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.Note Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix that contains these files may also contain additional files.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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