How to Search for Messages

You can use the Query tab in the BizTalk Server Administration Console to search for a specific class of messages.

Prerequisites

To perform this procedure, you must be logged on as a member of the BizTalk Server Operators group.

To search for messages

  1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft BizTalk Server 20xx, and then click BizTalk Server Administration.

  2. In the console tree, expand BizTalk Server Administration, and then click the BizTalk group.

  3. In the details pane, click the New Query tab.

  4. In the Query Expression group, in the Value column, select Messages from the drop-down list box.

  5. In the Field Name column, in the empty drop-down list box next to the asterisk (\), select one or more of the following:

    Item Description
    Creation Time Find messages created before or after the specified date.
    Error Adapter You can group or filter messages by adapter type: FILE, FTP, HTTP, MQSeries, MSMQ, POP3, SMTP, SOAP, or Windows SharePoint Services.
    Error Code You can group or filter messages by error code.
    Error Description You can group or filter messages by error description.
    Host Name You can group or filter messages by host name.
    Instance Status The status of the service instance referencing the message. You can search for all of the following types of instances: all running instances, all suspended instances, active instances, dehydrated instances, ready-to-run instances, scheduled instances, suspended but not resumable instances, or suspended and resumable instances.
    Maximum Matches The number of matches to display.
    Message ID You can group or filter messages by message ID.
    Message Status You can search for messages with consumed, in process, suspended, suspended but not resumable, suspended and resumable, queued, queued but awaiting processing, queued but scheduled for later delivery, and queued but waiting to retry.
    Message Type You can group or filter messages by message type.
    Service Class You can search for isolated adapters; messaging; messaging, and isolated adapters; MSMQT; Orchestration; or Routing Failure Report.
    Service Instance ID You can group or filter messages by service instance ID.
    Service Name You can group or filter messages by service name.
    Service Type ID You can group or filter messages by service type ID.
    URI You can group or filter messages by URI.
  6. Complete the Value column as appropriate for the selection you made in the Field Name column.

  7. Continue adding additional lines to the query as appropriate, by completing the Field Name, Operator, and Values columns, and then click Run Query.

See Also

Using the Administration Console Query Tab