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Musaab Al-Okaidi
Musaab Al-Okaidi

Reputation: 3784

BizTalk Configuration.exe remote execution error

I'm writing a script to automate the installation of BizTalk Server and then apply the configurations through the BizTalk "configuration.exe" utility. When I run the configuration.exe utility locally and supply it with the config xml, it works fine, and it displays a dialog during the configuration that shows the progress without the need for any user interaction.

The issue I'm having is when I try to remotely execute configuration.exe via Powershell. The configurations are not been applied and the configuration.exe process appears for a few seconds in the process explorer then it exits.

I examined the error logs and it seems like configuration.exe is crashing as it is trying to show its progress windows, but it's not able to do that remotely. The 3 errors that come up in the error log are:

Windows Error Reporting:

            - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
            - <System>
              <Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" /> 
              <EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID> 
              <Level>4</Level> 
              <Task>0</Task> 
              <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
              <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-12-03T13:24:10.000000000Z" /> 
              <EventRecordID>3956</EventRecordID> 
              <Channel>Application</Channel> 
              <Computer>HOSTNAME</Computer> 
              <Security /> 
              </System>
            - <EventData>
              <Data /> 
              <Data>0</Data> 
              <Data>CLR20r3</Data> 
              <Data>Not available</Data> 
              <Data>0</Data> 
              <Data>configuration.exe</Data> 
              <Data>3.0.1.0</Data> 
              <Data>4c5479ac</Data> 
              <Data>System.Windows.Forms</Data> 
              <Data>4.0.0.0</Data> 
              <Data>4f61a8cc</Data> 
              <Data>3e06</Data> 
              <Data>ee</Data> 
              <Data>System.InvalidOperationException</Data> 
              <Data /> 
              <Data /> 
            <Data>C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\AppCrash_configuration.ex_120852993cfe8d93d2aac7a1cea49f9a18b688_345a8b46</Data> 
              <Data /> 
              <Data>0</Data> 
              <Data>b823ff23-3d4c-11e2-ae6f-005056bc6ac0</Data> 
              <Data>4</Data> 
              </EventData>
              </Event>

Application Error:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name="Application Error" /> 
  <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID> 
  <Level>2</Level> 
  <Task>100</Task> 
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-12-03T13:24:10.000000000Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>3955</EventRecordID> 
  <Channel>Application</Channel> 
  <Computer>HOSTNAME</Computer> 
  <Security /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data>Configuration.exe</Data> 
  <Data>3.9.469.0</Data> 
  <Data>4c5479ac</Data> 
  <Data>KERNELBASE.dll</Data> 
  <Data>6.1.7601.17651</Data> 
  <Data>4e211319</Data> 
  <Data>e0434352</Data> 
  <Data>0000b9bc</Data> 
  <Data>1be0</Data> 
  <Data>01cdd1597a111847</Data> 
  <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010\Configuration.exe</Data> 
  <Data>C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll</Data> 
  <Data>b823ff23-3d4c-11e2-ae6f-005056bc6ac0</Data> 
  </EventData>
  </Event>

.NET Runtime error:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name=".NET Runtime" /> 
  <EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID> 
  <Level>2</Level> 
  <Task>0</Task> 
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-12-03T13:24:10.000000000Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>3954</EventRecordID> 
  <Channel>Application</Channel> 
  <Computer>HOSTNAME</Computer> 
  <Security /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data>Application: Configuration.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException Stack: at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog(System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog() at Microsoft.BizTalk.Configuration.Program.RunConfigProgressUIThread() at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(System.Object) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()</Data> 
  </EventData>
  </Event>

I've checked the options that can be passed to configuation.exe as I know some MSI and EXE installers do have a /silent option but this EXE doesn't seem to have it.

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I've also tried to run this through PSExec and I got a similar error.

Please let me know if there's anyway to run this remotely. Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1007

Answers (2)

Dheer
Dheer

Reputation: 101

I know this is a very old post but just an update .. If any one is trying to configure BizTalk 2013 remotely .. please install the latest update for BizTalk (currenlty CUW3 BizTalk2013CU3-KB3088676-ENU).This will provide an option of /noprogressbar. This will fix the issue

Upvotes: 2

Jeremie Devillard
Jeremie Devillard

Reputation: 801

I don't know if it is too late for you but I'm facing the same issue. This is du to the fact that Configuration.exe use a Form Component that realize some MessageBox.Show() and this is incompatible with non-interactive mode. If you look at the information message in the event viewer, you will see a dump file with the following Waston Report : 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<WatsonInfo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <osVersion>Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0</osVersion>
  <AppName>Microsoft ® BizTalk ® Server 2013</AppName>
  <AppVersion>3.10.229.0</AppVersion>
  <exceptionString>System.InvalidOperationException: Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation. Specify the ServiceNotification or DefaultDesktopOnly style to display a notification from a service application.
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog(IWin32Window owner)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Configuration.Program.RunConfigProgressUIThread()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()</exceptionString>
  <exceptionMessage>Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation. Specify the ServiceNotification or DefaultDesktopOnly style to display a notification from a service application.</exceptionMessage>
  <exceptionStackTrace>   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog(IWin32Window owner)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()
   at Microsoft.BizTalk.Configuration.Program.RunConfigProgressUIThread()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()</exceptionStackTrace>
  <targetSite>System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult ShowDialog(System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window)</targetSite>
  <HResult>80131509</HResult>
</WatsonInfo>

You will see this error exception : 

System.InvalidOperationException: Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation. Specify the ServiceNotification or DefaultDesktopOnly style to display a notification from a service application.

If you're always interested in this process (configure biztalk in command line remotely), I've just wrote a post on this here Azure BizTalk One Touch Configuration.

I wrote an extendedconfiguration.exe component to not use modal dialog and enable the configuration from powershell in remote. I use schedule task after to by-pass double hop issue, but if you are on premises network, I think you could configure trusted connection between you computers and use -Authentication CredSSP when you create you pssession and it shoud be work.

Hope this help

Jérémie MVP Integration

Upvotes: 1

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