Receive location using SBMessaging adapter disabled when Azure service bus is down

Question

Does anybody experience  SBMessaging receive locations are disabled when Azure service bus is unavailable with a MessagingCommunicationException?  Is this an expected behavior / 'by design'? We see this exception a few times a day.  I don't
see any retry attempts based on the event log.  Our current solution is to have a powershell script that enables the receive location if it's disabled.  This script runs every 15 minutes.  Below is a sample of the error in the event log.
The receive location "Warnings_SB_New" with URL "XXXXXX" is shutting down. Details:"System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Error during communication with Service Bus. Check the connection information, then retry. --->
Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.MessagingCommunicationException: Error during communication with Service Bus. Check the connection information, then retry. ---> System.ServiceModel.CommunicationObjectFaultedException: Internal Server Error: The server did
not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by a premature session shutdown..TrackingId:bb29d71c-a4d5-430c-a2d9-8a2e3acfad1d, Timestamp:5/9/2014 2:38:19 AM

Answer 1

Hi R. de Veen,
Below as the script we used with BTS2013.  We created a command line and setup a scheduled task.  Again, we don't use this script with BTS2013R2 since we do not have this issue with BTS2013 R2.
# Sample from https://github.com/tomasr/bts-ps-scripts/blob/master/bts-ports.ps
# declare our parameters: the action to take
param(
[string] $action=$(throw 'need action'),
[string] $name
$ctpRLs = @(
'Errors_SB_New'
#,'Error_OldTopic_OldLoggingDB'
,'Information_SB_New'
,'Warnings_SB_New'
#,'Information_NewTopic_OldLoggingDB'
,'Critical_SB_New'
#'Critical_OldTopic_OldLoggingDB'
# functions for pinging receive locations
function uti-ping-recv-loc
foreach ($rl in $ctpRLs)
Write-Host "`n"
if (( $rl -eq '') -or ($rl -eq $null))
throw "Receive location cannot be blank."
#Validate if this is a valid receive location
$recvloc = get-wmiobject MSBTS_ReceiveLocation `
-namespace 'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer' `
-filter "Name='$rl'"
if ($recvloc -eq $null)
Write-Host "'$rl' does not exist. Skipping..." -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor black
else
Write-Host "Ping '$rl'..."
if ($recvloc.IsDisabled)
Write-Host "Restarting '$rl'..."
bts-set-recv-loc-status -name $rl -status 'enable'
Start-Sleep -s 10
if ($recvloc.IsDisabled)
Write-Host "Failed to enable $rl. Check the event log for more information." -foregroundcolor red -backgroundcolor black
else
Write-Host "'$rl' is enabled."
else
Write-Host "'$rl' is enabled."
$i++
Write-Host "`nComplete!!!`n`n" -foregroundcolor green -backgroundcolor black
# enable or disable the specified
# receive location
function bts-set-recv-loc-status($name, $status)
$recvloc = get-wmiobject MSBTS_ReceiveLocation `
-namespace 'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer' `
-filter "Name='$name'"
switch ( $status )
'disable' { [void]$recvloc.Disable() }
'enable' { [void]$recvloc.Enable() }
# controls a send port
function bts-set-send-port-status($name, $status)
$sendport = get-wmiobject MSBTS_sendPort `
-namespace 'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer' `
-filter "Name='$name'"
switch ( $status )
'start' { [void]$sendport.Start() }
'stop' { [void]$sendport.Stop() }
'enlist' { [void]$sendport.Enlist() }
'unenlist' { [void]$sendport.UnEnlist() }
function is-valid-opt($check, $options)
foreach ( $val in $options )
if ( $check -eq $val ) {
return $true
# main script
switch ( $action )
'ping-recv-loc' {
uti-ping-recv-loc
Write-Host "`n"
Write-Host "Syntax: .\RestartELCRLs.ps1 ping-recv-loc"
Write-Host "`n"