How to Disable all BizTalk Hostinstances with PowerShell script - powershell

Question

I'm trying to make a PowerShell script to stop and disable from starting all BizTalk host instances.
Stopping is no problem with this code:
$hosts = Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -Namespace 'root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer'
foreach($hostinst in $hosts) {
if ( ($hostinst.ServiceState -ne 1) -and ($hostinst.ServiceState -ne 8) ) {
Write-Host "Stop Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName
$hostinst.Stop()
Write-Host "Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName "stopped"
}
}
But now I'm trying to Disable all stopped Host Instances from starting up.
My first try gives no error but doesn't do anything.
All host instance are mentioned in the output but they are not disabled.
$hosts = Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -Namespace 'root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer'
foreach($hostinst in $hosts) {
if ( ($hostinst.ServiceState -eq 1) -or ($hostinst.ServiceState -eq 8) ) {
Write-Host "disable Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName
$hostinst.IsDisabled = $true
Write-Host "Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName "is disabled"
}
}
My second try gives an error because of the -path parameter.
$hosts = Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -namespace 'root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer'
foreach($hostinst in $hosts) {
if ( ($hostinst.ServiceState -eq 1) -or ($hostinst.ServiceState -eq 8) ) {
Write-Host "disable Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName
Set-ItemProperty -Path $hostinst__PATH -Name IsDisabled -Value $True
# $hostinst.IsDisabled = $true
Write-Host "Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName "is disabled"
}
}
What is the correct method to set the property IsDisabled to $true or to $false?

Answer 1

BizTalk host instance is a windows service. So you can use powershell's Get-Service cmdlet to stop and disable it.
Suppose your host name is BizTalkServerApplication
Then following script will do the job:
Get-Service -Name BTSSvc`$BizTalkServerApplication | Stop-Service -PassThru | Set-Service -StartupType disabled
Also note the "$" is escaped as "`$"

Answer 2

#Zee is close, but still needs to loop through.. Here's one way to do that - concat the host's name with BTSSvc
$hosts = Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -Namespace 'root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer'
foreach($hostinst in $hosts) {
if ( ($hostinst.ServiceState -ne 8) ) { # ignore isolated hosts
$svcName = ('BTSSvc${0}' -f $hostinst.HostName) # get something Get-Service can work with
Get-Service -Name $svcName | Stop-Service -PassThru | Set-Service -StartupType disabled
Write-Host "Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName "stopped and disabled"
}
}
And if you need to set them back to Automatic/started:
$hosts = Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -Namespace 'root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer'
foreach($hostinst in $hosts) {
if ( ($hostinst.ServiceState -ne 8) ) { # ignore isolated hosts
$svcName = ('BTSSvc${0}' -f $hostinst.HostName) # get something Get-Service can work with
Get-Service -Name $svcName | Set-Service -StartupType Automatic -PassThru | Start-Service
Write-Host "Hostinstance" $hostinst.HostName "stopped and disabled"
}
}
And here's a way that might be even a little clearer:
Get-Service | Where-Object { $_.Name.StartsWith("BTSSvc") } | Stop-Service -PassThru | Set-Service -StartupType Disabled

Answer 3

Thanks for your answers.
However there are 2 reasons why this doesn't work completely fine in a BizTalk environment with multiple servers.
First in your solution you have to manually configure the list of servers for each environment in OTAP. With the option Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -Namespace 'root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer' BizTalk knows which servers belong the BizTalkGroup.
Second (and more important) the present state is "Automatic(Delayed start)".
Setting the state back to Automatic(Delayed start) with Powershell script is not posible according to several websites.
I understand now why $hostinst.IsDisabled = $true didn't work.
Because the change must be saved first.
That's why I have added a command to save the changes.
$script:btscatalog.SaveChanges() | Out-Null
Unfortunately still nothing seems to be changed.

Answer 4

Do not use default windows service to disable the BizTalk service
Use WMI to get list of BizTalk host instances
$inProcessHosts = "HostType=1"
$nsBTS = "root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer"
$filter = "($inProcessHosts)"
$hostInstances = Get-WmiObject MSBTS_HostInstance -Namespace $nsBTS -Filter $filter
Disable items in a for each loop (redirect output from put)
foreach ($hostInstance in $hostinstances)
{
$hostInstance.IsDisabled = $true
$hostInstance.Put() > $null
}
EDIT:
There is a way to set automatic (delayed start) if needed
#=== Change the startup type for BizTalk services to Automatic (Delayed Start) ===#
get-service BTSSvc* | foreach-object -process { SC.EXE config $_.Name start= delayed-auto}
From Technet WIKI:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/19701.biztalk-server-best-practices-create-and-configure-biztalk-server-host-and-host-instances.aspx