Improvement
Assume that you use multiple BizTalk servers. When one host instance has a problem (for example, the certificate is corrupted or the disk space runs out on one of the servers), you may face a very long downtime period. In this situation, you notice that the receive location may be closed and other host instances may not be able to continue receiving data although they do not have any problems.
Now, it is possible to configure receive locations to recover from transient errors instead of completely disabled by BizTalk. On fault, receive locations will be disabled in the host where it is faulted and BizTalk will attempt to recover it in certain configurable interval. The receive location will continue running in other hosts. This change can be made by adding DWORD ReceiverFaultToleranceEnabled with value 1 at following locations:
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For 64 bit BizTalk host instances: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0\Configuration
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For 32 bit BizTalk host instances: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0\Configuration
By default, BizTalk will attempt to recover receive locations from fault in every cache refresh interval. You can change this value (seconds) by adding DWORD ReceiverFaultToleranceRetryInterval with any other desired value at following locations:
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For 64 bit BizTalk host instances: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0\Configuration
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For 32 bit BizTalk host instances: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0\Configuration
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Resolution
This improvement is included in the following cumulative update for BizTalk Server:
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Cumulative Update 7 for BizTalk Server 2016
References
For information about the service packs and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2555976 Service pack and cumulative update list for BizTalk Server
For more information about BizTalk Server hotfixes, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2003907 Information about BizTalk hotfixes and Cumulative Update support
