After creating a Business Data Connectivity Service Application in SharePoint 2010 I wasn’t able to access the service application with the BDC models, external systems and external content types.

The error message I received was: "There are no addresses available for this application.”

Error description

Here is the screenshot with the error message:

Solution

The error message itself and the log files were pointing me nowhere…

Although the Business Data Connectivity Service was started using a PowerShell script right after the configuration of the service application it seems that they didn’t work together.

Maybe this is due to the fact that a timer job is involved if you start this service.

Finally I did an iisreset and everything worked fine.

Great this method still works in SharePoint 2010.