When dealing with Host Instances, you must specify the fully-qualified name, or use a couple of tricks I show in this blog.
I’ve been setting up some pre-canned scripts that I can just open when needed, and that have already been tested. Today I was looking at listing, starting, and stopping BizTalk Host Instances.
Powershell Script
cls
Add-PSSnapIn -Name BiztalkFactory.PowerShell.Extensions #NOTE: Must be in 32-bit version of Powershellto use this SnapIn
cd "Biztalk:\Platform Settings\Host Instances"
Get-ChildItem | ft -auto # or just type in "DIR", the "| ft -auto" avoids the Name being cut off with the elipse ...
Write-Host "`nList Completed"
#Demonstrating 3 ways:
# 1) Use fully qualified host instance name (a big pain to type it correctly)
# 2) Use the -match operator to match on a string
# 3) Use the Host name instead
# With last two, it will start/stop all host-instances on all machines
Stop-HostInstance "Microsoft BizTalk Server OrchHost SERVER01"
Write-Host "Stopped"
#Get-ChildItem |Where-Object { $_.Name -match 'OrchHost' } |Start-HostInstance
Get-ChildItem |Where-Object { $_.Host -eq 'OrchHost' } |Start-HostInstance
Write-Host "Started"
Results of running the above Powershell Script
Path: BiztalkFactory.PowerShell.Extensions\BizTalk::Biztalk:\Platform Settings\Host Instances Name Host Name Windows Group Running Server ---- --------- ------------- -------------- Microsoft BizTalk Server BizTalkServerApplication SERVER01 BizTalkServerApplication BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server BizTalkServerIsolatedHost SERVER01 BizTalkServerIsolatedHost BizTalk Isolated Host Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server TrackingHost SERVER01 TrackingHost SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server AS2HostReceive SERVER01 AS2HostReceive SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server AS2HostSend SERVER01 AS2HostSend SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server SFTPHostReceive SERVER01 SFTPHostReceive SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server SFTPHostSend SERVER01 SFTPHostSend SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server FileHostReceive SERVER01 FileHostReceive SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server FileHostSend SERVER01 FileHostSend SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 Microsoft BizTalk Server OrchHost SERVER01 OrchHost SERVER01\BizTalk Application Users SERVER01 List Completed Stopped Started PS BizTalk:\Platform Settings\Host Instances>
The use of “-ft auto” is used to avoid the ellipsis and show the full name (rather than truncating it).