Need to call Web Services in a periodic manner from BizTalk at specific intervals? Does BizTalk have the Timer functionality to schedule?

Question

In BizTalk Send port, we have an option to enable service window but it works if we need to make a call with in a specific period. My requirement is, For instance to make a call at 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 02:00 PM, 04:00 PM like that.
Is there a way to implement this in Orchestrations or through any windows schedulers? Also, need to consider the performance as well.
Please shed some light on this. Your help is greatly appreciated!!!
Vijay

Answer 1

Your requirement is not of multiple schedule “service windows”, it’s of multiple schedule “service trigger” when you can send the message. Service windows would specify “between” a specific time window like between 1 AM and 2 AM or 9:00 AM and 12 AM. But
your requirement is send the messages at a specific time.
You can design this trigger for BizTalk to come using a schedule task to create a triggering file at the scheduled times so that it would trigger BizTalk and its artifacts (a send port) to send a message.
Or my options would be create WMI script (or powershell or any script) which would start the send port and another script to stop the send port - when it’s called/triggered. Configure a schedule task to run the “start” script so that during send port can
be started and after few minute call another schedule task which would call the “stop”-script which would stop the send ports. – Simple isn’t it
J
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