Happy Easter all - just come back from a great Easter getaway weekend and thought I'd share this common question with you:

"How do I turn off Global Tracking in BizTalk?"

On an internal email a solution was mentioned:

Basically - it comes in two steps, (a) following a TechEd article, (b) performing additional steps in WMI.

Here's the steps:

1. TechNet Article

2. WMI Steps -

The GlobalTrackingOption property is a property of the MSBTS_GroupSetting WMI class.
The MSBTS_GroupSetting WMI class represents a logical grouping of computers that are running Microsoft BizTalk Server.
This property can be modified with the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester tool. To do this, follow these steps:
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1. Click Start, click Run, type wbemtest, and then click OK.
2. In the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester, click Connect.
3. In the Namespace box, type root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer, and then click Connect.
4. Click Open Class, type MSBTS_GroupSetting in the Enter Target Class Name box, and then click OK.
5. In the Properties list, click GlobalTrackingOption, and then click Edit Property.
6. To disable the Global Tracking option for the BizTalk Group, change the Value that is listed from 1 (0x1) to 0 (0x0), and then click Save Property.
7. To enable the Global Tracking option for the BizTalk Group, change the Value that is listed from 0 (0x0) to 1 (0x1), and then click Save Property.
8. Also click on Save object
9. To close the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester tool, click Close in the Object Editor for MSBTS_GroupSetting dialog box, and then click Exit in the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box.
10 Restart the host.