I am just putting together a WMI script to check for long running instances, I thought I'd simply iterate MSBTS_ServiceInstance, but I'm getting a bunch of stuff that don't exist!
Specifically, if I check for all instance in the Administration console, there is no record of them.
They don't appear in HAT (probably because they are older than my HAT window and I haven't got round to digging out a backup)
If I check with the Operations DLL, they do not show.
They do appear in the Instances table in SQL.
I assume these are just old instances that haven't cleaned up properly, but the SQL jobs (e.g. MessageBox_Message_ManageRefCountLog_BizTalkMsgBoxDb) are ticking over happily.
Does anybody know why these would be lingering and how I can purge them without resorting to drastic terminator style action (production).
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Enterprise x64 etc.