How to: Stop BizTalk completely
 
When you run into a situation where you have to stop BizTalk completely, you best follow some rules.
 
Stop start procedure

 

  1.       First, you'll have to stop the Receive Locations,
  2.       Wait untill BizTalk has worked trough all running instances,
  3.       Then you can stop the orchestrations and send ports
  4.       Stop the Host Instances.
Now that everything has been stopped, you can make your change en start your applications up again after it.
Make sure you also fire up the host instances.