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Troubleshooting the Nodinite LDAP Adapter for Microsoft BizTalk Server

This guide helps you quickly resolve issues and optimize your Nodinite LDAP Adapter for Microsoft BizTalk Server environment. Discover best practices, advanced tips, and essential resources to keep your integration running smoothly.

✅ Step-by-step troubleshooting for common LDAP Adapter issues
✅ Debugging, monitoring, and logging best practices
✅ Performance, security, and disaster recovery tips

If you encounter issues you cannot resolve, contact our Support or email support@nodinite.com

Debug output

The Nodinite LDAP Adapter for Microsoft BizTalk Server provides extensive trace outputs for development and testing. You can review these outputs during run-time using the free debugview tool.

The developer documentation for the Nodinite LDAP products offers additional technical details.

Tips and tricks

Boost performance, security, and reliability with these expert tips. These are optional enhancements that you can implement at your own discretion and risk.

Important: This section includes registry modifications. Always back up your registry before making changes. For guidance, see 256986.

Description of the Microsoft Windows registry

Disable PACVerification

You can disable PAC Verification to optimize Kerberos authentication. See Understanding Microsoft Kerberos PAC Validation. This applies to all Windows Server versions and editions.

Make sure the server SPN is properly registered in your AD

Kerberos is preferred over NTLM for authentication. If your service (BizTalk, etc.) does not have its SPN registered, it may fall back to NTLM.

Learn how to Register a Service Principal Name for Kerberos Connections. This article, while written for SQL Server, applies to all Windows Services, including BizTalk host instances.

Logging

Enable tracking on ports using the LDAP Adapter for better visibility. What is Message Tracking?. Note that tracking increases workload and disk usage on your BizTalk Server environment.

Integration Software offers a superior 3rd party logging tool for application integration solutions, enabling you to maintain, track, and audit your integration work. Learn more at https://www.nodinite.com/.

Monitoring

Use monitoring tools to ensure healthy operation of your LDAP Adapter environment.

Key areas to monitor:

  • Suspended instances in BizTalk
  • LDAP Service/Servers
  • Status of Windows Services:
    • BizTalk
    • SQL
    • SQL Agent
    • IIS
    • MSMQ

Integration Software provides a robust 3rd party monitoring tool for application integration solutions. Control, monitor, and audit your integration platform with https://www.nodinite.com/.

Disaster Recovery * Backups

Prepare for disaster by regularly backing up your LDAP Adapter environment. Data can only be restored to the point of your last valid backup. Use 3rd party software to back up environments, configuration files, and databases.

  • Verify backup availability and procedures
  • Ensure backup validity
  • Train your team—restore databases in test environments to validate procedures and access

Important

Data is lost if you do not have valid backups of your environments, configuration, documentation, and databases in the event of a disaster.

Integration Software offers consulting services to help you set up, educate, and practice disaster recovery scenarios for BizTalk/LDAP Adapter environments.