About one year ago, I created a small command line utility to completely remove a BizTalk Application on a group of server.

It's now on codeplex and here are some information on how to use it.

How to use BTSZap

BTSZap is a small utility aimed at removing a biztalk application on a group of servers

BTSZap works with BizTalk 2006 R2 andt BizTalk 2009.

It's a command line utility with several options available through the use of switches.

BTSZap includes the following functionalities :

Ø Backup the application (MSI)

Ø Uninstall the MSI on every server (if the application was installed with a MSI)

Ø Terminates active instances (I.E. Full Stop the application)

Ø Stop and remove the application

Ø Remove from GAC assemblies

Ø Restart host instances

Command line options and usage example:

BTSZap syntax is :

BTSZap NameOfParameter1:Value1 ... NameOfParameterN:ValueN

In order to obtain the full list of parameters, launch BTSZap with no parameters:

Syntaxe : BTSZap Argument1:Value1 Argument2:Value2

Parameters Usage :
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Language:String
if not specified : use user settings otherwise language code EN,FR...

ApplicationName:String
Name of the BizTalk application to UnInstall

[AutoDetectConfig:Boolean] Default=True
If enabled, try to auto detect SQL Server and Management Database

[DatabaseServer:String] Default=.
Name the database server instance hosting BizTalk management Db

[ManagementDatabase:String] Default=BiztalkMgmtDb
Name of the management DB

[UnGAC:Boolean] Default=False
Try to Un-GAC assemblies on all Biztalk Server

[RestartHostInstances:Boolean] Default=True
Enable restarting host instances after removing application

[FullStop:Boolean] Default=True
Do a full stop before removing. I.E. Kill running instances

[NoConfirmation:Boolean] Default=False
Disable confirmation

[InfoLevel:Int32] Default=2
Information Level (0 to 3)

BackupMSIFile:String
Path and name of the MSI File to create. (If not present, no backup will be d
one)

MSI:String
name of the MSI package to uninstall

[HaltOnError:Boolean] Default=True
if true, halt on critical errors. Otherwise try to continue

Example :

BTSZap ApplicationName:Rental FullStop:true BackupMSIFile:c:\Rental.msi AutoDetectConfig:false UnGac:true DatabaseServer:localhost InfoLevel:3 Language:EN MSI=Rental HaltOnError:false

This asks BTSZap to do the following:

Ø ApplicationName:Rental --> uninstall Rental Application

Ø FullStop:true --> terminate active instances

Ø BackupMSIFile:c:\Rental.msi --> backup the application to c:\rental.msi

Ø AutoDetectConfig:false --> do not detect BizTalk Management database connection parameters

Ø UnGac:true --> remove assemblies from GAC

Ø DatabaseServer:localhost --> connect to BizTalk Management database on server: localhost

Ø InfoLevel:3 --> information level 3

Ø Language:EN --> force the use of english for messages

Ø MSI:Rental --> name of application as it appears in the program list

Ø HaltOnError:false --> do not stop on error

Where to download & Remark

You can download BTSZap on codeplex. http://btszap.codeplex.com

Warning, if you recompile in debug mode, BTSZap will break on every step

Hope it will be usefull,

Roch BADUEL