How to configure Send Handler for BizTalk 2013 Dynamic Send Port on deployment?

Question

Hi,
I do know how to manually configure a send handler for a dynamic send port in BizTalk 2013 Administration console. Though, once you export your application's configuration to a binding file, the dynamic send port's configuration does not
contain any information regarding the send handler. When you try to use this binding file when deploying your application your dynamic port's send handler falls back to the default host instance.
So my question is, how could we automate this process to avoid manual step in a dynamic port configuration during deployment?
Thank you,
--Vlad

Answer 1

Hey vlad,
As discussed at work in the office.. I woudl take the powershelll approach for now as a workaround.  Here's a trivial script for my local dev box (all in one biztalk & SQL)  (must be run in an x86 powershell session):
param
 [string] $bizTalkDbServer = ".",    
 [string] $bizTalkDbName = "BizTalkMgmtDb",
 [string] $fileHostInstance = "SendingHost",
 [string] $sendPortName = "sm_dynamic_sp_test"
[System.reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM") | Out-Null
$catalog = New-Object Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM.BtsCatalogExplorer
$catalog.ConnectionString = "SERVER=$bizTalkDbServer;DATABASE=$bizTalkDbName;Integrated Security=SSPI"
foreach($sp in $catalog.SendPorts)
 if($sp.Name -eq $sendPortName)
  "Found send port $($sp.Name), analyzing send handler"
  foreach($sh in $sp.DynamicSendHandlers)
   if($sh.SendHandler.TransportType.Name -eq "FILE")
    if($sh.SendHandler.Host.Name -ne $fileHostInstance)
     "Changing $($sh.Name) send handler to '$fileHostInstance' from '$($sh.SendHandler.Host.Name)'"
     $sp.SetSendHandler("FILE", $fileHostInstance)
    else
     "Send handler for $($sp.Name) is already '$fileHostInstance' ignorning .. "
$catalog.SaveChanges()