In a previous post I mentioned that you could work with the WMI interfaces in BizTalk Server easier in PowerShell than you could with C#, and in a more interactive fashion. Here's something else I cooked while playing with the PowerShell RC1: A PowerShell version of my BTSReset tool!

Update: Fixed code so that it works with PowerShell V1 RTM.

#

# declare two switch parameters: -start and -stop

#

param([switch] $start, [switch] $stop)



#

# get list of application hosts

#

function get-apphosts

{

   get-wmiobject MSBTS_HostInstance `

      -namespace 'root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer' `

      -filter HostType=1

}



#

# stop the given host

#

function stop-host($apphost)

{

   $hostname = $apphost.HostName

   if ( $apphost.ServiceState -ne 1 )

   {

      "Stopping Host $hostname ..."

      [void]$apphost.Stop()

   }

}



#

# start the given host

#

function start-host($apphost)

{

   $hostname = $apphost.HostName

   if ( $apphost.ServiceState -eq 1 )

   {

      "Starting Host $hostname ..."

      [void]$apphost.Start()

   }

}



#

# main script

#



if ( !($stop) -and !($start) )

{

   $stop = $true

   $start = $true

}



if ( $stop )

{

   get-apphosts | %{ stop-host($_) }

}



if ( $start )

{

   get-apphosts | %{ start-host($_) }

}

Here's a few examples of running the tool from the PowerShell prompt:

PS E:\temp> .\bts-reset.ps1
Stopping Host BizTalkServerApplication ...
Starting Host BizTalkServerApplication ...

PS E:\temp> .\bts-reset.ps1 -stop
Stopping Host BizTalkServerApplication ...

PS E:\temp> .\bts-reset.ps1 -stop

PS E:\temp> .\bts-reset.ps1 -start
Starting Host BizTalkServerApplication ...


Tomas Restrepo

Software developer located in Colombia.