BizTalk Deployment Framework Solution Deployment Restarts all Host instances

Question

When I deploy my solution using BTDF, all Host instances are getting restarted while I need only 3 to restart for this BT App.

I have the 3 hosts identified in the SettingFileGenerator.xml file (SendHost, ReceiveHost and ProcessingHost) and here is the setting I have in Deployment.btdfproj file for this :

    <SkipHostInstancesRestart>False</SkipHostInstancesRestart>
<StartApplicationOnDeploy>True</StartApplicationOnDeploy>
<ItemGroup>
    <PropsFromEnvSettings Include="SsoAppUserGroup;SsoAppAdminGroup;SendHost;ReceiveHost;ProcessingHost"/>
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
    <BizTalkHosts Include="$(SendHost);$(ReceiveHost);$(ProcessingHost)" />
</ItemGroup>

Anything else I'm missing to prevent all Host instances from restarting?

Answer 1

From the BTDF documentation

BizTalk Host names to restart

The BizTalkHosts ItemGroup is appropriate for the names of one or more BizTalk hosts that should be restarted during the deployment and undeployment processes.

<ItemGroup>   
 <BizTalkHosts Include="MyHostName" />    
</ItemGroup>

Include attribute: BizTalk host name
Repeating: 1 or more elements

So it should be

<ItemGroup>   
 <BizTalkHosts Include="SendHost" />    
 <BizTalkHosts Include="ReceiveHost" /> 
 <BizTalkHosts Include="ProcessingHost" /> 
</ItemGroup>