BizTalk BAM Data Archiving

Being a bit late to the finer points of managing a BAM installation, I'm just discovering some useful and important things to know about BAM, particularly managing its archive and understanding its data age policy.

http://seroter.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/biztalk-bam-data-archiving-explained/

As always, thanks Richard for making such in-depth-yet-easy-to-understand posts.  Makes my job a lot easier :)

BAM Activity and Real-time Aggregations Windows

You can modify the duration data is kept in the BAMPrimaryImport database using the bam_Metadata_Activities table:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms962341.aspx

In addition, if you are using Real-time Aggregations for BAM data, you can set the window of data kept using the bm utility and the set-rtawindow command:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559458.aspx