ODBA Visio 2007 Hack

the orchestration designer for business analyst (ODBA) works with Visio 2003 SP1. if you try to install it when having Visio 2007 you will get an error. however, there is a cool hack (see link at the end) to apply to allow installing the ODBA with Visio 2003.

If you want to use BizTalk ODBA with Visio 2007 instead of having to install Visio 2003, follow these steps:

1. Export this registry key:[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Visio]


2. Edit the resulting .reg file in notepad and replace all instances of 12.0\Visio with 11.0\Visio


3. Reimport the file into the registry and the install for BizTalk ODBA should work.

Note: Do not change any other values in the file. Essentially, you will be copying the Visio key under the 12.0 key to the 11.0 key without making any value or data changes.

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