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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 adapter for BizTalk 2006 R2 grayed out

BizTalk 2006 R2 ships with support for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 (the R1 only supports WSS2.0/SPS 2003). In the Installation Wizard of BizTalk there is an option (unchecked by default) to install the Windows SharePoint Services adapter. With this adapter, BizTalk can communicate with WSS.

I saw many times now that the checkbox for this adapter is grayed out. If that's the case, let wizard doesn't let you install it.

Possible causes:

  • You don't have a running WSS 2.0/3.0 configuration;
  • Language difference. If you install the English BizTalk version, make sure you run the OS and WSS of the same language. And don't have a language template pack installed
  • Security issue. I had this one. I installed WSS and promoted the machine after it to a domain controller with dcpromo.exe.

Now I have it finally installed. I installed Win2003 x64 R2 SP-2, SQL 2005 x64 SP-2, WSS 3.0 SP-1 (slipstreamed version) and BizTalk Developer Edition 2006 R2.

Hope this helps,

Print | posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:55 PM |

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