Moving on with BizTalk 2004
I must say that my familiarity with BizTalk has increased in the past few days. After my initial experiences with it, I've learned the ropes now and am more familiar with debugging issues and finding the right help spots.
However, one thing that I do not like so much is, the help system. The model that BizTalk folks have followed, is to enable the help to be downloaded incrementally as and when new content is available. Many topics in the help point you to more information on the web that you can download and augment the help system. This is where I had another bad experience!
When I installed BizTalk initially, I had a full fledged help system with all tutorials and SDKs installed. When I was reading about HTTP ports et al, the help page pointed me to another web link to download more information and I did do that. Now, after applying the help update, my tutorials and SDKs are not there! That whole section has been wiped out and there is another link to download that portion. If I do download it, nothing happens.... :-(
On the other hand, I like the MS Office help system. If internet connectivity is there, it checks the web for updates and syncs your local content, otherwise, it just checks the local content. This way, updates are also streamed and at the same time existing stuff does not get wiped out.