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Can anyone explain how I can remove service instances ?
- I've got a few which the BizTalk console shows as "Running"
- they are all in the Isolated Adapter
- tried doing a Stop with Full Stop option ...
- tried the Terminate Instance option ...
- even tried deleting the BizTalk application

But they're still there ??

my bad, the application delete did remove them, must have forgot to refresh

Event log has the errors ...

A request-response for the "HTTP" adapter at receive location "/foanite/BTSHTTPReceive.dll" has timed out before a response could be delivered.

but I still don't understand why the terminate wouldn't work

SteveC
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  • When you receve the message on the HTTP receive, how long do you take to post a response? Are ou using a two way receive? – Christian Loris May 05 '09 at 13:18
  • This is my own testing, so response should be seconds Yeap, using a two way receive – SteveC May 05 '09 at 13:48
  • What version of BizTalk? What are you seeing in the message flow? Does it die somewhere in the orchestration? – Christian Loris May 06 '09 at 02:55
  • 2006 R2. I've deleted the entire application, so can't see any details, but from memory, Admin console was showing them as "Running service instances" even when I'd stopped the application. The weird thing is the HTTP receive was the beginning of the orchestration, and it had passed through those stages Ok – SteveC May 06 '09 at 14:53
  • Can you duplicate the problem again? – Christian Loris May 07 '09 at 16:55
  • Everything seems to be working Ok when I do the usual Stop with Full Stop option. – SteveC May 07 '09 at 19:31

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If you are running an Receive Location in an isolated host you normally need to perform a iisreset to be able to delete them.

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  • Or just kill the w3wp.exe process of your isolated host. – terry Jun 09 '13 at 08:33
  • No. Doesn't help me. Neither restart IIS nor kill w3wp.exe on both our BizTalk nodes. – Eivind Gussiås Løkseth Jun 22 '20 at 12:16
  • @EivindGussiåsLøkseth - Are the instances "running" and in a "Isolated host"? – magnus Jun 23 '20 at 13:37
  • Yes, it's a BizTalkServerIsolated host. I'm able to remove the Active instances after doing iisreset on both nodes and delete the application. I also uninstall its msi and manually remove assemblies from Program Files (x86) and GAC to make sure I'm in a clean state before redeploying a new version. Not yet quite sure what's strictly necessary to do of all this. And it would be interesting to know the root cause, that makes these hanging Active instances. – Eivind Gussiås Løkseth Jun 23 '20 at 13:45
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    @EivindGussiåsLøkseth There is a somewhat undocumented stored procedure in the BizTalk message-box database called dbo.int_AdminTerminateInstance_BizTalkServerApplication which should work in your scenario. You need the service instance id and service type but they are easily accessible in BizTalk Administration. If you can simulate the issue in a dev or test environment try it there first. And make a backup! – magnus Aug 20 '20 at 19:29
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If the IISReset does't help (it often doesn't) then use the BizTalk Health Monitor.

  • Select "Maintenance" from left-and tree view
  • For Task Type, select "Delete" and "Terminate Single Instance (Hard Termination)"
  • Paste the instance id taken from the BizTalk admin console
  • Click "Execute Task"
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