Monday 16 July 2007

BizTalk 2006 on VMWare Workstation

A client I was working for wanted BizTalk 2006 running on VMWare Workstation 5. Easy I thought, so I installed Windows Server 2003 Std R2, SQL Server 2005 Ent + sp1 applied all hotfixes and service packs via Windows Update, followed the BizTalk install guide religiously but still couldn't get the BizTalk configuration to apply successfully.

The Basic configuration was failing with an SSO issue:

Failed to generate and backup the master secret to file: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On\SSO0FAB.bak (SSO) Additional Information (0x80070005) Access is Denied.

After much head scratching and searching it appears to be a similar issue to that reported with Microsoft Virtual PC.


The work around to get the Basic Configuration applying correctly is pretty simple.
  1. Un-configure the BizTalk installation using the option on the Wizard.
  2. Delete the Databases that the un-configure didn't remove (SSODB + BusinessRulesdB) otherwise the config will fail again next time you try.
  3. Create the SSO Administrators security group manually.
  4. Add the installing user's account and the BizTalk Service account to this new group.
  5. Reboot the VM
  6. Re-run BizTalk Configuration and this time it should all work swimmingly.
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Anonymous said...

I am getting the same issue on VMWare 6. I have installed BizTalk before on a VM and never had these issues.
I have attempted your work around but still no luck.
Any other thoughts?

14 April 2009 at 00:26
bharat sahani said...

Not only create this group
create 6 groups manually
Biztalk user
BizTalk admin
along wiht the 2 groups of sso
that will do i hope

1 February 2010 at 12:58

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