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BizTalk 2010 - Using external source for credentials


On my BizTalk server I use several different credentials to connect to internal and external systems. There is an upcoming task to change the passwords for a lot of systems and I'm searching for a solution to simplify this task on my BizTalk server.

Is there a way that I could adjust the File/FTP adapters to extract the information from an XML file so that I can change it only in the XML file and everything will be updated or is there an alternative that I could use such as PowerShell?

Did someone else had this task as well?

I rather don't want to create a custom adapter but if there is no alternative I will go for that one. Using dynamic credentials for the send port can be solved with Orchestration but I need this as well for the receive port.


Solution

  • You can export the bindings of all your applications. All the passwords for the FTP and File Adapter will be masked out with a series off * (asterisks). You could then edit your binding down to just those ports you want to update, replace the masked out passwords with the correct passwords, and when you want the passwords changed, import them.

    Unfortunately unless you have already prepared tokenised binding files the above is a manual effort.