AppFabric Service and Workflow Management Forum

Dublin Monitoring and PErsistance Databases

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:35:15 Z

All,

Is there a prescise listing of the database schema objects that should be installed with Monitoring and PErsistance Databases? I have installed Dubln on 3 identitcal machines with 3 different results in regards to the database schema.

StepsI used to create the Database Objects pre-Dublin installtion:

- New Database [ServerSpace]
- New user ServerSpaceAdmin (equal rights of an sa)

Each time i install i get a different set of Tables and procedures. Two of the boxes are geting exceptions in the Event viewer while trying to find procedures that do not exist:.Log Name:      System
Source:        WorkflowManagementService 4.0.0.0
Date:          11/23/2009 2:13:03 PM
Event ID:      3
Task Category: Workflow Management Service
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          BSPACE2\AppServer
Computer:      BSPACE2
Description:
Workflow Management Service encountered a non-fatal exception. Review the exception to determine the cause of the issue.
Exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Could not find stored procedure 'System.Activities.DurableInstancing.InstanceRecoveryJob'.
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.CompleteAsyncExecuteReader()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.EndExecuteNonQuery(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.ServiceModel.Activities.DurableInstancing.Management.SqlWorkflowStoreCommandCollector.InstanceRecoveryJobComplete(IAsyncResult result)
Process Name: WorkflowManagementService
Process ID: 4612

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="WorkflowManagementService 4.0.0.0" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49159">3</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>15</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-11-23T22:13:03.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>2278</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>BSPACE2</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-714372414-156846826-1418110977-1005" />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Could not find stored procedure 'System.Activities.DurableInstancing.InstanceRecoveryJob'.
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.CompleteAsyncExecuteReader()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.EndExecuteNonQuery(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.ServiceModel.Activities.DurableInstancing.Management.SqlWorkflowStoreCommandCollector.InstanceRecoveryJobComplete(IAsyncResult result)</Data>
    <Data>WorkflowManagementService</Data>
    <Data>4612</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

- I dont not believe that Dublins installation is installing these objects, and for whatever reason is bombing and simply not creating these objects.
- I would understand if the user i created did not have permission to access/create objects. However in all 3 instances OBjects where created, I however can not tell if it created all objects needed.

Rex Whitten

Application Server Extensions for .NET 4 Setup Problems

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:45:29 Z

I've been trying to follow the AppFabric Installation Guide to install Beta 1 on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 (x86) machine. I had mentioned previously that I had trouble installing Powershell 2.0, but it looks like I already had that installed.

Here's what I'm specifying in the Application Server Extensions for .NET 4 Setup Wizard:
- Feature Selection: select Worker only (just trying to get this working w/o caching for now)
- Monitoring Settings: select defaults
- Persistence Settings: select defaults

The setup completes with errors. I'll include part of the setup log file with the errors below.

Following the setup log file, things seem to go pretty well until I start seeing some errors related to a config file missing a section declaration. Here's an example of that:

[21:07:30 Error] Failed to set monitoringFilename: \\?\C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.10917\CONFIG\web.config
Error: The configuration section 'microsoft.applicationServer/monitoring' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

Later, the AppServerEventCollectorService fails to start, which also appears to be a config file problem:

Service cannot be started. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070490): Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.10917\CONFIG\web.config
Error: The configuration section 'microsoft.applicationServer/monitoring' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

I've tried this a number of times, trying various things but to no avail.

Thanks,

David Madrian

[21:07:15 Information] Package installed successfully.

[21:07:15 Information]

Creating configuration session

[21:07:15 Information]

Applying settings:

[21:07:15 Information]

Starting the execution of: AddEventCollectorServiceUserToAdministratorsGroup

[21:07:15 Information] The default event collector service user already belongs to the default administrators group. AddWindowServiceUserToAdministratorsGroup does not apply. Skipping

[21:07:15 Information] Completed with success the execution of: AddEventCollectorServiceUserToAdministratorsGroup

[21:07:15 Information]

Starting the execution of: AddWorkflowManagementServiceUserToAdministratorsGroup

[21:07:15 Information] The default workflow management service user already belongs to the default administrators group. AddWindowServiceUserToAdministratorsGroup does not apply. Skipping

[21:07:15 Information] Completed with success the execution of: AddWorkflowManagementServiceUserToAdministratorsGroup

[21:07:15 Information]

Starting the execution of: AddConnectionStringToConfig

[21:07:15 Information] Add connection strings: InProgress

[21:07:15 Information] Executing Cmdlet: Remove-ConnectionStringConfig -Root -Name <> -Confirm false

[21:07:25 Information] To perform AddConnectionStringConfig - Persistence

[21:07:25 Information] Executing Cmdlet: Add-ConnectionStringConfig

[21:07:26 Information] Executing Cmdlet: Remove-ConnectionStringConfig -Root -Name <> -Confirm false

[21:07:26 Information] To perform AddConnectionStringConfig - Monitoring

[21:07:26 Information] Executing Cmdlet: Add-ConnectionStringConfig

[21:07:26 Information] Add connection strings: Success

[21:07:26 Information] Completed with success the execution of: AddConnectionStringToConfig

[21:07:26 Information]

Starting the execution of: SetPersistence

[21:07:26 Information] Set root persistence behavior: InProgress

[21:07:26 Information] To perform EnableServicePersistence

[21:07:26 Information] Executing Cmdlet: Set-ServicePersistence -Root - ConnectionStringName <>

[21:07:27 Information] Set root persistence behavior: Success

[21:07:27 Information] Completed with success the execution of: SetPersistence

[21:07:27 Information]

Starting the execution of: UpdateWorkflowManagementServiceConfig

[21:07:27 Information] Configure Workflow Management service: InProgress

[21:07:27 Information] To perform AddDatabaseConfig

[21:07:27 Information] Configure Workflow Management service: Success

[21:07:27 Information] Completed with success the execution of: UpdateWorkflowManagementServiceConfig

[21:07:27 Information]

Starting the execution of: SetMonitoring

[21:07:27 Information] Set root monitoring behavior: InProgress

[21:07:27 Information] To perform SetMonitoring

[21:07:27 Information] Executing Cmdlet: Set-Monitoring -Root -ConnectionStringName <> -MonitoringLevel HealthMonitoring

[21:07:30 Error] Failed to set monitoring

Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.10917\CONFIG\web.config

Error: The configuration section 'microsoft.applicationServer/monitoring' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Interop.AppHostWritableAdminManager.GetAdminSection(String bstrSectionName, String bstrSectionPath)

at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Configuration.GetSectionInternal(ConfigurationSection section, String sectionPath, String locationPath)

at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Configuration.GetSection(String sectionPath, String locationPath)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.WebAdministration.ConfigurationExtension.GetSection(Configuration configuration, String sectionPath, Boolean shouldHandleNonTerminatingExceptions, String locationPath)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Helpers.MonitoringHelper.SetDefaultEventSourceInfo(Configuration config, EventSourceInfo eventSourceInfo)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Configuration.MonitoringLevelActivity.DoSet(MonitoringInfo monitoringLevelSpecification)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Configuration.ConfigurationEditor`1.Set(T itemSpecification, ConfirmationDelegate confirmChanges)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Commands.ConfigurationCmdlet.ExecuteSet[T](ConfigurationManager configManager, T configInfo, ISupportSet`1 setActivity, ISupportGetSpecific`1 getActivity)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Commands.SetASAppMonitoringCmdlet.ProcessCommand(ConfigurationManager configManager)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Commands.ConfigurationCmdlet.ProcessRecordCore()

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Management.Commands.ServerManagementCmdlet.ProcessRecord()

at System.Management.Automation.Cmdlet.DoProcessRecord()

at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()

Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.10917\CONFIG\web.config

Error: The configuration section 'microsoft.applicationServer/monitoring' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)

at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecute(Array input, Hashtable errorResults)

at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeHelper()

at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeThreadProc()

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner)

at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner)

at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks)

at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.PowerShell.Pipeline.Invoke()

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationOperations.SetMonitoring(String connectionString)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationOperations.SetMonitoring(ConfigurationSettings settings)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationSession.ExecuteAndContinue(ConfigurationAction action)

Failed to set monitoring

[21:07:30 Information] Set root monitoring behavior: Error

[21:07:30 Information] Completed the execution of: SetMonitoring

[21:07:30 Information]

Starting the execution of: ChangeEventCollectorServiceIdentity

[21:07:30 Information] To perform GrantLogonAsServiceToAccount

[21:07:30 Information] The event collector service user was not changed. ChangeWindowsServiceIdentity does not apply. Skipping

[21:07:30 Information] Completed with success the execution of: ChangeEventCollectorServiceIdentity

[21:07:30 Information]

Starting the execution of: ChangeWorkflowManagementServiceIdentity

[21:07:30 Information] To perform GrantLogonAsServiceToAccount

[21:07:30 Information] The workflow management service user was not changed. ChangeWindowsServiceIdentity does not apply. Skipping

[21:07:30 Information] Completed with success the execution of: ChangeWorkflowManagementServiceIdentity

[21:07:30 Information]

Starting the execution of: StartEventCollectorWindowsService

[21:07:30 Information] Start Event Collector service: InProgress

[21:07:30 Information] To perform StartWindowsService for AppServerEventCollectorService

[21:07:30 Information] Executing StartWindowsService

[21:07:30 Information] Service's status is Stopped. Starting it.

[21:07:32 Information] Waiting for service to be on Running state.

[21:08:32 Error] Failed to start the Event Collector service

Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.

at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus desiredStatus, TimeSpan timeout)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationOperations.StartWindowsService(String windowsServiceName)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationOperations.StartEventCollectorWindowsService(ConfigurationSettings settings)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationSession.ExecuteAndContinue(ConfigurationAction action)

Failed to start the Event Collector service

[21:08:32 Information] Start Event Collector service: Error

[21:08:32 Information] Completed the execution of: StartEventCollectorWindowsService

[21:08:32 Information]

Starting the execution of: StartWorkflowManagementService

[21:08:32 Information] Start Workflow Management service: InProgress

[21:08:32 Information] To perform StartWindowsService for WorkflowManagementService

[21:08:32 Information] Executing StartWindowsService

[21:08:32 Information] Service's status is Stopped. Starting it.

[21:08:34 Information] Waiting for service to be on Running state.

[21:08:37 Information] Start Workflow Management service: Success

[21:08:37 Information] Completed with success the execution of: StartWorkflowManagementService

[21:08:37 Information]

Starting the execution of: AddDistributedCacheConfiguration

[21:08:37 Information] Apply Distributed Cache Configuration: InProgress

[21:08:37 Information] To perform Distributed Cache Configuration with command line /IAS /New ClusterSize=Small LOGFILE="C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\DistributedCacheAppServerConfig(2008-11-09 21-08-37).log" Provider=System.Data.SqlClient ConnectionString="Data Source=PDC08-CSD;Initial Catalog=DistributedCache;Integrated Security=True" SERVICEPORT=22233 CLUSTERPORT=22234 ARBITRATORPORT=22235 REPLICATIONPORT=22236 UNBLOCKSERVICE=True UNBLOCKFILESHARING=True UNBLOCKREMOTEADMIN=True /quiet

[21:08:40 Information] Distributed Cache Configuration failed with error code: 2

[21:08:40 Error] Failed to apply Distributed Cache Configuration

Failed to apply Distributed Cache Configuration

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationOperations.AddDistributedCacheConfiguration(ConfigurationSettings settings)

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationSession.ExecuteAndContinue(ConfigurationAction action)

Failed to apply Distributed Cache Configuration

[21:08:40 Information] Apply Distributed Cache Configuration: Error

[21:08:40 Information] Completed the execution of: AddDistributedCacheConfiguration

[21:08:40 Information] 3 errors found during Apply Settings

[21:08:40 Error] Failed to Configure. Please see the error, fix the problem, and try again.

Configuration completed with multiple errors. The error list and details can be found in the Windows Logs Setup node in the Windows Event Viewer. Filter for events from the source ASE_Setup.

Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Core.SetupException: Configuration completed with multiple errors. The error list and details can be found in the Windows Logs Setup node in the Windows Event Viewer. Filter for events from the source ASE_Setup.

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationSetupModule.ApplySettings()

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Configuration.ConfigurationSetupModule.PostInstall()

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Client.SetupWorkflow.PostInstall()

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Client.SetupWorkflow.StartActionPhase()

at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Client.ProgressPage.StartAction()

=== Summary of Actions ===

Enabling the following Windows features. : Completed Successfully

Application Server Role : Completed Successfully

IIS Management Console : Completed Successfully

Application Server Extensions for .NET 4 : Completed Successfully

Configure Application Server Extensions for .NET 4 : Failed

Add connection strings : Completed Successfully

Set root persistence behavior : Completed Successfully

Configure Workflow Management service : Completed Successfully

Set root monitoring behavior : Failed

Start Event Collector service : Failed

Start Workflow Management service : Completed Successfully

Apply Distributed Cache Configuration : Failed

===== Logging stopped: 2008-11-09 21:08:40-08:00 =====

Support for other DB than SQLServer

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:47:16 Z

Hi,

Because my actual client is using oracle I really would like to see support for other DB types.
Any plans for this ?

Thanks

philippe

Installation W2008 SP2 requirements

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:49:21 Z

Hello,

I try to install the beta 1 on a Windows 2008 SP2 VPC (Enterprise edition). I installed the hotfixes as required and Powershell V2 CTP2 (and IIS Admin Pack) , restarted but the setup wizard doesn't appear to detect Powershell V2 CTP2 because I am stuck to the Platform Validation step.

How to get Dublin?

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:19:59 Z

When will we be able to get access to Dublin?

Error installing AppFabric

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:05:57 Z

Hi

I've got windows 7, with all the prerequisites already installed. When I try to installed the AppFabric, I've got the following error message:

[01:04:38 Error] Unknown error (0x80240017)

Unknown error (0x80240017)

Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Core.SetupException: Unknown error (0x80240017)
   at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Installer.WusaProxy.GenerateAndThrowSetupException(Int32 exitCode, LogEventSource logEventSource)
   at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Installer.WusaProxy.Invoke(LogEventSource logEventSource, String packageName)
   at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Installer.CbsInstaller.Install()
   at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Setup.Client.ProgressPage.StartAction()

thanks

Announcing Beta 1 of the Windows Server AppFabric

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:34:26 Z

We are happy to announce Beta 1 of the Windows Server AppFabric. You can download or learn more about the Beta 1 here.

Today at PDC we are excited to introduce the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1. AppFabric evolves the existing application server capabilities of Windows Server to make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on Internet Information Services (IIS).

For Web applications, AppFabric provides caching capabilities to provide high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data These capabilities are based on the technology previously code named “Velocity.”

For composite applications, AppFabric makes it easier to build and manage services built using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). These capabilities are based on the technology previously code named “Dublin.” continue reading…

We really value your feedback - please enter any suggestions or product bugs using Microsoft Connect by clicking here.

Thanks,

Michael

Does Dublin will require xalmx activation

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:13:30 Z

Hello,
I want to know if dublin will only permit to activate xamlx services and xamlx workflow services ?
I mean that does using xaml is a requirement to host WCF & Workflow Services in Dublin ?
Thx
Regards
Dominique

Presentation Videos from PDC 2008

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:48:06 Z

Hello all,

If you were not able to attend PDC 2008 recently, we recorded a good number of the sessions on Channel 9. Here's a link to all of the recorded sessions there:

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/PDC2008/

I hope this helps you gain some more knowledge about what we showed at PDC 2008!

Ed

WCF 4.0, WF 4.0, and Dublin vs Biztalk 2009

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:05:17 Z

Folks,
I'm looking at various ways of putting together a multi-tier architecture involving services and I'm looking at two options and I'm unclear on where the real value is. On the one hand, I look at services hosted in workflows hosted in Dublin and I see the ability to create something that is close to an ESB but not quite. I can script all of my transactional business logic into workflows that can be poked and prodded via WCF endpoints.

However, I then look at Biztalk 2009 and it's ability to act as an "on ramp" (terminology not mine) for an ESB, complete with the ability to expose WCF endpoints that talk to Biztalk orchestrations and I'm left wondering.. which is the more robust solution? Why would one pick the .NET 4.0 "biztalkless" solution over the .NET 3.5 SP1 biztalk solution? (or would they?)

Hopefully someone who is more knowledgeable in this area can enlighten me and hopefully send me down the right path :)

The .NET Addict - http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com

Dublin & KQI's and KPI's

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:53:06 Z

I am trying to get familiar with Dublin Application roles. I am trying to find out how this application would help me manage in terms of the Key Quality Indicators (KQI’S); and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’S)?

Thank you in advance

Config files needed for Dublin product analysis

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:23:59 Z

Hello All,

The Dublin team is looking for some feedback from you in order to make sure we are accurately targeting the correct features in Dublin. Specifically, we are looking for information in Config files that you use in your WCF and WF applications, these can be either Web.Config or App.Config files. We are interested in seeing these files, and especially the system.servicemodel section of the config files. We understand that there may be information in there that you do not want to send to us, so please feel free to “scrub” these sections as need be, and I will assure you that any information from these files will not be used in any manner except for this specific internal analysis. If you do not use config files in your applications, that is also valuable information to us, so if you could reply saying “We do not use config files in our apps” that would be very helpful too.

If you have a set of files for us to look at, we will need the following information so as to categorize our data correctly:

What is the company type you work for, e.g. ISV, SI, Enterprise, etc.

How many times is this configuration deployed with your services?

How often do you find you need to modify your config files when they are deployed in production environments? e.g daily, weekly, once a month, rarely, or never

Please send any config files (zipped preferably) to georgekr at m i c r o s o f t.com – obviously you will have to modify this address to get it to work, or please reply to this thread if you run into any problems or have any questions.

Thanks,

Ed

Which OS is required for Dublin

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:35:22 Z

Will Dublin support Windows 2003 Server?

Dublin TAP Announcement

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:32:23 Z

Code name “Dublin” Technology Adoption Program

Microsoft is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for participation in the “Dublin” Technology Adoption Program (TAP). “Dublin” rounds out the existing application server capabilities in Windows by providing additional features to help organizations manage and run Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) services built using .NET 4.

The TAP is a program designed for customers who have specific business needs to get early access to new technology and to drive their requirements into the current and future versions of the product. In return, TAP participants help Microsoft reach its quality bar across product, documentation and support services and help validate features and use cases in real world environments. Customers receive direct support by Microsoft and are able to deploy pre-release builds into production if needed.

TAP requires significant time and resource commitment, so all nominations are required to have a compelling business need, appropriate resources and executive support to join this program. Additionally, due to the cost of running such a program, there are a limited number of seats available.

Should TAP not be suitable for you, Microsoft will also be offering a public beta later in 2009, which will enable you to evaluate the technology only in development and test environments.

We are accepting nominations now and will continue to accept nominations until August when the program is scheduled to start or until capacity is exceeded. Because “Dublin” needs WCF and/or WF 4 services to manage, we want to accept organizations into the program as soon as possible so that work can commence on the service development side prior to “Dublin” availability for TAP customers in August/September.

The rest of this document details the program benefits, the requirements for participants to join the program, the rough timeline of this program and how to submit your nomination. We look forward to your participation.

Thank you

Microsoft

TAP Program Benefits

TAP is a program designed to bring together the Microsoft engineering team and customer’s project team to drive a project into production prior to general release of the product. As such Microsoft provides a range of resources and benefits to help make this happen as follows:

Program Management

· Assigned Microsoft program manager from the product team

· At least one on-site visit to meet with your project team and management to review project status

· Weekly conference calls with participants’ project teams

Product Training

· Provide early access to product documentation and training resources.

· Invitation to attend monthly webcasts from the product team on specific areas of the product

Issue escalation and resolution

· Bug/Issue advocacy by assigned PM during regular triage meetings

· Highest level of Technical Support dedicated to supporting your production environment

· Ability to request and receive quick fixes to approved builds for project blocking issues

Early access to product bits

· Key milestones and interim builds

Community advantage

· Private TAP community web site/forum established to discuss issues for peer help

· Responsive engagement with the community/forum by the product group

In this “Dublin” TAP program we are interested in working with organizations who want to evaluate “Dublin” and commit to providing bug reports and feature feedback as well as customers who want to take this to the next level and put “Dublin” into a production environment. Therefore, we will have a “Production Pool” and an “Evaluation Pool” of customers. For the production pool, the additional benefits of technical support, QFE fixes and licenses to go to production apply.

TAP Program Requirements

Microsoft’s goal is to get critical feedback on feature capabilities and product quality that will be used to determine when “Dublin” is ready to ship. We would like a limited number of customers to commit to production deployments of Dublin to manage production services as well as a larger pool of customers who want to put significant effort into evaluating “Dublin” but cannot commit to production deployment. Since “Dublin”s focus is to help manage and run WCF 4 and WF 4 services, a significant amount of time will be spent by TAP customers building the underlying applications that “Dublin” will manage. Some customers may have an existing application or one in development; others may be starting from scratch. In any case the activities involved will be significant and there are some specific requirements that program participants will need to ensure happen:-

Product Use and Deployment

· Participants must have a project that is related to a specific business need and has appropriate senior level support and funding. This project will rely on “Dublin” and exercise one of more of the core scenarios listed below.

· Participants will install and run the most recent customer-ready build in their development environments upon joining the program.

· Participants who are selected into the “production deployment” pool will commit to going into production within 45 days prior to product release date on the release candidate bits and sign off on release 2 weeks prior to release date.

· Participants must have schedule flexibility (see program timetable below). For example participants in the “production pool”, should not have projects that are fixed date driven.

Project Team and readiness

· Assign Project Manager and suitable project staff including, as necessary, Microsoft partners, Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft Premier Support

· Team will participate in weekly conference calls with an assigned Microsoft Project Manager

· Team will provide ongoing weekly status updates

· Team will log product bugs and verify bug fixes

· Appropriate team members will attend TAP program training/conferences and participate in the TAP community

Agree to participate in PR/launch activities and contribute project artifacts

· Participant must be willing to take part in a range of PR activities, such as press releases, press interviews, customer interviews, advertising or launch events, written or video case studies, unless prevented from doing so by corporate policy or legal agreement

· Participants are strongly encouraged to commit to creating technical artifacts from their project that will help to provide guidance and best practices for others

Documentation Requirements:

Participants must accept and sign the following agreements that will be provided if the nomination is accepted:

· Master TAP Agreement

· Agree to Program Description

· Supplemental End User License Agreement

· Non Disclosure Agreement

Participant Selection

As mentioned in the program requirements above, the participant should have a project that will exercise multiple core scenarios that “Dublin” addresses. TAP participants will span a wide range of organization size, project complexity, and geographic location.

We are looking for customers who, through an active project implementation, can validate some of the following scenarios:

· Establish the appropriate IT Operations skills and best practices to use “Dublin” to deploy and manage a range of Windows Process Activation Service (“WAS”) hosted WCF or WF services:

- Deployment, configuration and decommissioning of service components and other artifacts with “Dublin” (using both GUI tools (IIS Manager) and command-line scripting tools provided via Powershell) across environments (development, testing, staging, production) .

- Services with high uptime requirements (both vertical and horizontal scaling architecture) and requirements to manage/monitor/report the SLA’s for these services.

- Highly available services that require changes such as versioning a service contract and rolling out this change to production with minimal impact on availability.

- Deployment using a virtualized infrastructure.

- Management of a large number of services.

- Integration of service and workflow management into a centralized operations management infrastructure, both Microsoft e.g. SCOM, and non Microsoft management platforms.

· Application scenarios that require high throughput.

· Development environments - both large and small, that plan to design, test/debug and deploy/undeploy/redeploy WF 4 services directly from Visual Studio.

· Applications that consist of long running workflows developed using WF 4 and the requirements and processes to manage these workflows over time (including processes to correct suspended workflows).

· Applications that would benefit from dynamic message routing.

· Requirements for application health monitoring and detailed troubleshooting

· Farm environments with multiple machines hosting services

· Building “Dublin” dependencies into commercial applications that require integrated setup and configuration.

· Using “Dublin” in a virtual and non-virtual multi-tenanted hosting environment.

· Migrating existing WCF & WF 3.0/3.5 services to WCF and WF 4.0 and deploying these using “Dublin”.

Program Timetable

The table below provides some general guidance for the TAP program timelines. This is subject to change based on product development progress and feedback.

June - August	Nominations	Customers nominated for the program and start addressing program requirements in order to be accepted.
	Selection & Enrollment	Customers selected for the program are notified and given information regarding initial participation. We will accept nominations as they are submitted on a case by case basis until the program is full. Expect to be contacted regarding your acceptance/rejection within 2 weeks of your nomination. Master TAP Agreement Supplemental EULA (prior to deployment) NDA Program Description All these documents must be returned. Additionally, a signed Supplemental License must be on file at Microsoft and the Program Description must be returned acknowledge by the organization.
	.NET 4 artifact implementation (WCF and WF)	Implementation of the .NET 4 artifacts e.g. WCF services and WF workflows should commence upon official acceptance into the program.
August/September	Release of CTP product build for testing	Deployment in development/lab environment within 14 days of availability.
Q3 2009 (Oct-Dec)	Beta 1 release	Upgrade all environments deployed to this release and continue development and testing of solution
Q1 2010 (Jan-Mar)	Beta 2 release	Upgrade all environments deployed to this release and continue development and testing of solution.
Q2 2010 (Apr-Jun)	RTM	For those customers accepted into the “Production pool”, production go-live for solution up to 45 days prior to product final release. Upgrade/deploy using release candidate product build/builds and system in production.

How to Submit a Nomination

Please use the steps below to submit your application for participation in the TAP program. You will be contacted by the Microsoft TAP program team within 2 weeks of your submission:

1. Log on to http://connect.microsoft.com, register if you don’t have an account and a profile

2. Under "CONNECTION DIRECTORY" on the top menu, select the "Server" category

3. Look for "Microsoft Codename "Dublin" Programs" and select the “Apply” link next to "Codename “Dublin” Technology Adoption Program (TAP)"

4. Fill out the Dublin TAP Nomination form available from the Downloads section (on the left hand-side menu)

Questions:

If you have any questions about the Dublin TAP program, please don’t hesitate to email us at: dublincp@microsoft.com

Additional Resources:

http://www.microsoft.com/NET/Dublin.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/chriscraft/default.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.01.net40.aspx

Recent TechEd 2009 Sessions on Dublin:

SOA202 – A Lap around Dublin
http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=9bd4c1fc-6f4d-459e-9d18-83016bb9bd90

SOA310 – Managing, Tracking and Troubleshooting Services with Dublin
http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=a0ba0aad-eb7e-41bb-bcf6-a0fe2e6ea418

Windows Service Host - No IIS - Where does Dublin fit?

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:50:09 Z

Hi

Our local, load balanced app servers host our WCF endpoints via windows services. It's the local network, .net to .net, tcp + binary serialization: high throughput, high performance scenario.

IIS isn't even installed on the app server boxes since it's not needed (and you don't need to harden what's not there, even with ).

I've only seen a little bit of the Dublin information but it seems to be all IIS extension this, IIS extension that...

Is Dublin going to provide a direct alternative to WCF hosted under a windows service?

Cheers

Ed

Update: I forgot to mention those servers are W2K3...

URL Rewrite - dynamically generate rewrite maps?

Mon, 25 May 2009 23:32:22 Z

Hi,

Is it possible to dynamically generate rewrite maps? I have hundreds of products in my product catalogue so it isn't feasible to add a key/value pair for each possibility.

e.g. www.somedomain.com/products.aspx?id=1 should rewrite to www.somedomain.com/products/fitness

Or is there a better way of handling this?

Thanks,

David.

How to read an email from microsoft exchange server through ASP .net 2.0

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:37:22 Z

Hi All,

Please any body can help me regarding ---read an email from microsoft exchange server through ASP .net 2.0

.Net Remoting

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:46:54 Z

"Remoting" seems to be a dirty little secret in the .Net world since WCF has come out. However, I am wondering if Dublin would also be able to handle hosting this type of application. My guess is the answer is "yes, but...". However, I don't know what the "but..." is. Can anyone elaborate?

Dublin Server Clustering

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:01:31 Z

Hi

What will be the approach to load balanced clustering of servers under Dublin? Will workflow execution occur on multiple servers? I expect a workflow instance domain is limited to a single server but will new instances of the same workflow type (pattern) instantiate on other servers to scale?

Thanks

Greg

BizTalk WCF Endpoints in Dublin?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:23:11 Z

Hi,

I've been involved in a few BizTalk vs. Dublin debates in the past week, but not had a chance to talk about BizTalk + Dublin.

As a long time BizTalk guy, I see some major advantages of using Dublin in some scenarios. I was aslo thinking that Dublin could make a good host for WCR endpoints that publsh to the message box database. At present BizTalk publishes WCF services to IIS for HTTP protocols. It would be great to have BizTalk publish WCF endpoints to Dublin, and be able to leverage the functionality Dublin provides.

Has any one else considered this a good option, and is it a workable scenario for BizTalk 2009?

Regars,

Alan

Workflow Validation Failed in dublin VM from PDC

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:26:54 Z

Hi,

Today I started to use dublin VM from PDC, creating some small workflows. In the first try, I received this error when I run the workflow (wcf + sequential workflow). The WCF host show this message "workflow validation failed".

After some search on web, I discovered the problem is the declarative rule condition. So, when I change the declarative rule condition to code condition it works fine, but with declarative rule condition it doesn't.

The workflow is very simple, an input number, "if" activity and an output calculation result. Using code condition works fine, declarative rule condition doesn't.

What am I doing wrong ? How to make declarative conditions work in dublin VM ?

(the same workflow constructed in VS 2008 works well with declarative conditions, using the same steps to build the workflow).

Thanks !

[]'s

Dennes

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Any timelines for first CTP

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:49:03 Z

Hello,
I'm going to start a service extensive new project in a few months and I'm asking my self should I already use Dublin in my technical design.

Thanks

philippe

PDC email address dublinw@microsoft.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:33 Z

I tried sending an email to the address defined on the business card received at the PDC:

dublinw@microsoft.com

That address seems to bounce with user unknown?

Auto start options - where to configure

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:42:13 Z

I’ve been digging around in Dublin looking for where I set up auto restart and auto start features. I’ve found the config settings heartbeatInterval, pollingInterval and heartbeatValidForPeriod. Does anyone have a definition as to what these values control?

Also these values all appear to be about restarting a stopped instance – where do I configure auto-start? i'm using the PDC bits

Thanks

Richard Blewett, thinktecture - http://www.dotnetconsult.co.uk/weblog2

Dealing with the Visual Studio 2010 expiration in the WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo”, & “Dublin” PDC08 Virtual Machine

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:43:46 Z

If you’ve been using the WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo”, & “Dublin” PDC08 Virtual Machine provided on the PDC08 Goods Disk, you’ve probably noticed that Visual Studio 2010 within the VPC expired at the end of December and you are presented the following message “The evaluation period for Visual Studio Trial Edition has ended”. Below are details on how you can export your data and get the image working again.

The work around involves creating a new differencing disk and new virtual machine configuration file and then disabling the clock synchronization between the host and guest OS. In the end you will have a fresh virtual machine that believes it is 10/10/2008 and the clock will only increment when the machine is running.

NOTE: This workaround assumes you have not altered the “PDC08-CSD.vhd” file that was marked Read Only on the PDC08 Goods Disk. If this file has been altered, the work around may not work.

1. Export the data you want to keep from the VPC image. This can be done using the “Shared Folders” feature of VPC 2007 to copy the data to your host and then copied into the new image at the end of this process. See the “Share a folder between a virtual machine and the host operating system” topic in VPC 2007 Help for more details.

2. Shut down the Virtual Machine and discard your changes. At the end you will end up with a fresh, new image but you need to discard any saved changes so that you can alter the VMC file later in this process.

3. Create a new differencing disk.

a. On the “Goods Disk” search for the PDC08-CSD-WorkDisk.vhd file and rename it to anything you want.

b. Launch VPC 2007, click File, select Virtual Disk Wizard and click Next.

c. Select “Create a new virtual disk” and click Next.

d. Select “A virtual hard disk” and click Next.

e. Store the new disk in the same folder where you found the PDC08-CSD-WorkDisk.vhd file and give it the same name. Click Next to continue.

f. Select “Differencing” and click Next.

g. Locate the “PDC08-CSD.vhd” file in the same folder where you found the other vhd file, select it and click Open and Next.

h. Click Finish and then Close

4. Create a new Virtual Machine.

a. Launch VPC 2007, click New and click Next.

b. Select “Create a virtual machine” and click Next.

c. Click browse and navigate to the same folder where you created the new PDC08-CSD-WorkDisk.vhd file in step 3 above.

d. Create a new vmc file with any name you like and click Save, then click Next.

e. Select Windows Server 2008 in the Operating System dropdown and click Next.

f. Select “Adjusting the RAM”, click Next, set the amount of RAM you want to allocate (we allocated 1536 in the original virtual machine) and click Next.

g. Select “An existing virtual hard disk” and click Next.

h. Click browse and select the new the new PDC08-CSD-WorkDisk.vhd file in step 3 above and click Open.

i. Check the Enable undo disks box and click Next.

j. Click Finish.

YOU MUST DO STEP 5 BEFORE LAUNCHING THE IMAGE OR YOU WILL HAVE TO DO STEPS 3 & 4 AGAIN.

5. Disable the host OS synchronization of the VPC. This is a change to the PDC08-CSD.VMC file that disables the clock synchronization between the VPC and the host OS. This means that time in the VPC moves forward only when the VPC is being used. As a result, you will have over 2 months of runtime (not wall time) for a fresh VPC.

a. Find the PDC08-CSD.VMC file in the same folder where you found the PDC08-CSD-WorkDisk.vhd in step 2.

b. Open the file in Notepad and made the change highlighted in RED below:

<integration>
    <microsoft>
        <mouse>
            <allow type="boolean">true</allow>
        </mouse>
        <components>
            <host_time_sync>
                <enabled type="boolean">false</enabled>
            </host_time_sync>
        </components>

Bunch of other stuff that I am skipping over to save space...
    </microsoft>
</integration>

c. Save and close the VMC file.

6. Launch the Virtual Machine in VPC and repeat step 1 to create the Shared Folder for copying your data back into your new image.

Your virtual machine will now show a date of 10/10/2008 and will only increment when the virtual machine is running.

One important note: Don’t attempt to join the VPC to a domain since the domain will set the time within the VPC and thus cause Visual Studio to expire.

Many thanks to Jeff Beehler for this information which he posted on his blog, Brian Keller and his detailed description of the various activation messages associated with the CTP as well as to Virtual PC Guy who provided the original information on how to disable the VPC clock synchronization.

If you’ve converted this VPC image to HyperV following Grant’s instructions, be sure to read Cameron’s update to learn of a similar workaround for HyperV.

Upgrading to Dublin

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:55:00 Z

For systems running .Net v3.0/v3.5 workflows:

What is the strategy proposed for upgrading to .Net 4.0, and subsequently installing the Dublin extensions and additions, from .Net v3.5 where workflow instances are either running or persisted to the .Net v3.5 peristence store?

How will the process of upgrading to .Net 4.0 impact the running workflow instances?
Will the v3.5 activity instances continue to operate under v4.0? If .Net v4.0 is like v3.0 was to .Net 2.0 where the two essentially co-exist.
Will the persistence store DB schema be backwards compatible with the .Net v3.5 schema? Will data be impacted? or is a new data store required along with the old store?
Will Dublin management recognise .Net v3.5 workflow instances...this would imply .Net v4.0 and v3.5 coexisted somehow.

...maybe there will be a whitepaper on this to a avoid lengthy forum post :-)

Thanks

Greg

Welcome to the AppFabric Server and Workflow Management Forum

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:19:32 Z

Welcome to the AppFabric Server and Workflow Management Forum, formerly callled Microsoft Codename “Dublin”.

This Forum is for discussion of all aspects of AppFabric Server and Workflow Management. For more information on AppFabric Server and Workflow Management, please visit the Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849.aspx More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

To enter product bugs and suggestions - Microsoft Connect – Please use the Microsoft Connect site to enter product issues/bugs and suggestions, as well as vote on top issues. You can enter feedback in Connect by clicking here.

To try out core product scenarios and vote – Scenario Voting - Try out a few key scenarios in the product and tell us what you think! Were you successful? Was it easy? How can we make it better? Go to https://input.microsoft.com/

Thanks,

Ed