Lukas Beeler's IT Blog

While setting up a development workstation for use with Microsoft BizTalk 2006, i ran into a very basic, but also very interesting problem:

The BizTalk setup aborted because the event log was full. But why was it full? Simple – installing BizTalk in a Development environment requires installing Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005 and of course BizTalk Server itself. But that’s only one part – you’ll also need to apply lot’s of patches to a Windows XP SP2 installation with all this software installed (over 100!).

So, if you’re planning on installing a dev workstation with BizTalk Server on it, make sure that your event logs are configured for automatic rollover, or increase the size limit.