Assemblies may be removed from the global assembly cache when you deploy BizTalk Server assemblies by using Application Center 2000 on a server that is not running BizTalk Server 2004 (910297)

SUMMARY

Consider the following scenario:

A source server is not running Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004.
The source server is running Microsoft Application Center 2000.
A target server is running BizTalk Server 2004.
You use Application Center 2000 on the source server to deploy BizTalk Server 2004 assemblies to the target server.

In this scenario, one or more assemblies may be removed from the global assembly cache on the target server.

MORE INFORMATION

When you use Application Center 2000 to deploy BizTalk Server assemblies from a source server that is not running BizTalk Server 2004 to a target server that is running BizTalk Server 2004, one or more of the following assemblies may be removed from the target server:

Microsoft.XLANGs.BizTalk.Engine.dll
Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.dll
Microsoft.XLANGs.RuntimeTypes.dll
Microsoft.BizTalk.GlobalPropertySchemas.dll
Any assembly that is referenced in the deployed assembly

When you use Application Center 2000 to deploy BizTalk Server assemblies, Application Center 2000 determines the assemblies that are referenced in the deployed assemblies. If the referenced assemblies do not exist in the global assembly cache on the source server, Application Center 2000 removes those assemblies from the global assembly cache on the target server.

REFERENCES

For more information about Application Center 2000 GAC replication support for Windows 2000, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

326950 Application Center 2000 GAC replication support for Windows 2000