BizTalk Server 2004 rejects reliable receipts from BizTalk Server 2000 and from BizTalk Server 2002 (813845)

SYMPTOMS

When you exchange reliable messages between Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 and 2002, BizTalk Server 2004 may reject the reliable receipts from BizTalk Server 2000 and 2002. Then, the message is dehydrated and is eventually suspended, and you receive the following error message in the application event log:

There was a failure executing the send pipeline: "BTF.BTFSendPipeline"
Source: "BizTalk Framework assembler"
Send Port: "http://myserver/biztalk/biztalkhttpreceive.dll"
Reason: The reliable BTF message exhausted all retry attempts without receiving acknowledgement. .

RESOLUTION

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

888751 How to obtain the latest BizTalk Server 2004 service pack

Hotfix information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version     Size     File name
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   20-Apr-2004  23:26  3.0.5285.0  266,240  Microsoft.biztalk.pipeline.components.dll

Note Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix that contains these files may also contain additional files.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem occurs between computers that are running BizTalk Server 2004 and computers that are running versions of BizTalk Server that are earlier than BizTalk Server 2002 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

In versions of BizTalk Server that are earlier than BizTalk Server 2002 SP1, message receipts that are generated on channels by using reliable messaging and the BizTalk Framework 2.0 specification included the following element. This element is declared by using the prop namespace:

<rcpt:deliveryReceipt xmlns:rcpt="http://schemas.biztalk.org/btf-2-0/receipts" 
  SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand="1">
  <rcpt:receivedAt>2004-04-20T18:02:06+00:00</rcpt:receivedAt> 
  <identity xmlns="http://schemas.biztalk.org/btf-2-0/properties">uuid:cf94ffe8-93e7-4333-8a67-f03a47683301</identity> 
</rcpt:deliveryReceipt>

The identity element that is generated in BizTalk Server 2002 SP1 and in BizTalk Server 2004 is declared by using the rcpt namespace:

<rcpt:deliveryReceipt xmlns:rcpt="http://schemas.biztalk.org/btf-2-0/receipts" 
  SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand="1">
  <rcpt:receivedAt>2004-04-20T21:04:21+00:00</rcpt:receivedAt> 
  <rcpt:identity>uuid:846e29d2-7c3a-45f7-8359-fe9516aaa137</rcpt:identity>
</rcpt:deliveryReceipt>

After you install this hotfix, BizTalk Server 2004 can accept both formats.

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: