I wrote this lab about a year or so ago, with a view to posting it when I got the time. If you want to learn about multi-server installs with BizTalk, it may be a good idea to run through it in a virtual environment first. It will probably take you about half a day to run through the lab, but most of the time will be spent waiting for the various installs to complete.
You can find the lab here.
I was recently adding EPM 2007 (Project Server 2007) to an existing WSS/MOSS
2007 setup (farm).
The installation worked a treat…then it came to the business end of the installation……to
see the Project bits in action.
One gotcha I want to share with you:
1. Project Server allows configuration through an additional element within the MOSS
SSP (already created in my case).
Project Server (group) -> Project Web Access Sites
When I first clicked on this guy, I got an error “Project Application Service
does not exist or is not started…”
– trouble I thought.
Quick scan of the services on the machine – couldnt find it!
Trick: From Central Admin -> Operations -> Services on Server
– there is an extra ‘Server Role’, Project Application.
– select it and start the service (this installs the service as well)
– now from the main server role screen, (in my case – Single Server
or Web Server…) the Project Application Service is listed and now started
🙂
Gotta be happy with that!
While perusing through the BizTalk Blog I found this posting on Stephen Thomas’s blog announcing Microsoft’s release of the BizTalk Server 2006 Developers Guide. As usual, Stephen proclaims the guide as being “awesome”, and as usual he is not wrong. It is a must have!
Wow! It has been a very long time since I posted anything. I am too embarrased to comment on how long it has been so let’s just say it has been many moons. Be on the look out for a great deal of exciting information. I have been working on 3 project with BizTalk 2006 R2 and have a number of things to share around the new WCF functionaility and RFID (my favorite)
For those of you interested in the The Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus Guidance, it is now available in a community technology preview on CodePlex. www.codeplex.com/esb
Cheers
With the first All Black team of the year being named this afternoon I thought it was quite fitting to do a rugby post.
Last week I was working with the team from SiliconCoach in Dunedin helping test their new Rugby Sportswizard application. The application is really sweet in its approach and design, it has a bunch of video parcels that have been shot of the All Blacks during their conditioning period. What you can then do is load a video of yourself performing the same action as your favourite all black and then “compare” how you went and improve your technique.
Now a desktop application is the logical choice for performing this sort of video analysis especially because you are able to use the application offline and leverage the clients graphics card.
In contrast a website that caught my eye last week was http://www.visarugby.co.nz/. This ASP .NET website uses a flash UI (they use Zinzan as their kiwi rugby personality… hopefully his recent injuries are not life threatening) to perform in page video editing of rugby moves to submit to a community portal.
There is still quite a gap between what can be done on the client and what can be done on the web. I thought I would take a moment to “make a video” that profiles these two solutions and takes a bit more about where we are heading with Silverlight as a solution for video on the web.
Video encoded with Expression Media Encoder and uploaded to the Silverlight Streaming Service (unfortunatley the screen capture software doesn’t record the video smoothly but you’ll get the idea).
function CreateSilverlight(){Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source: “streaming:/33/rugbycast”,parentElement: rugbycastWrapper});}
var rugbycastWrapper = document.getElementById(“rugbycastWrapper”);
CreateSilverlight();
I took the Top Banana in browser video editing application for a run on my laptop this week and it is really slick! I look forward to that code being released shortly.
If you are interested in learning more about Silverlight video for the web…
The 101 for media control in javascript is here
A sample site (with source code) that Joe Stegman has used to incorporate Silverlight Video into his site is here – video here.
You can also watch these other MIX sessions on media in Silverlight
Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration
Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight
Windows Media: Evolving Content, Powering Amazing User Experiences
Also don’t forget the all black vista sidebar gadget!
Enjoy
I guess no one can ever say that the VS dev team isnt responsive.. after all the posts in various forums about the lack of support for class libraries on the AD surface, this has now been made available. Unfortunately its only available on Orcas Beta 1 (as a Power Toy) . Check out the post and screenshot at : http://blogs.msdn.com/vsarch/. Apparently Orcas has some underlying infrastructure that allows it to support such out of band developments so this wont work on VS2005 which is a pity, but if we have waited so long, its only another few months to wait for the final orcas release with all these goodies.
Another really good thing is that Steve Cook and Gareth Jones et al have published a new book on Domain Specific Development with VS. It should be available now on Amazon (the link is too long to paste here- check it out).
I guess no one can ever say that the VS dev team isnt responsive.. after all the posts in various forums about the lack of support for class libraries on the AD surface, this has now been made available. Unfortunately its only available on Orcas Beta 1 (as a Power Toy) . Check out the post and screenshot at : http://blogs.msdn.com/vsarch/. Apparently Orcas has some underlying infrastructure that allows it to support such out of band developments so this wont work on VS2005 which is a pity, but if we have waited so long, its only another few months to wait for the final orcas release with all these goodies.
Another really good thing is that Steve Cook and Gareth Jones et al have published a new book on Domain Specific Development with VS. It should be available now on Amazon (the link is too long to paste here- check it out).
I have just signed up for the code camp again, the datesareJune 30th & July 1st on the UCSD Campus. Here is the link ot the page and since last time I had to invade on another’s presentation time to finish, I decided to teach two sessions. Here are the two classes I am going to teach
After talking with a friend about some of his mapping dilemmas, he had looked at my blog entries of the Cross Referencing functionality, but did not realize the power of that API, until I showed him how it can make his mapping life easier. With that information, I felt that presenting the Cross Referencing component would be a beneficial presentation.
Let me know through my contact page if you are going to be there.
I’m pleased to announce that my (long idle) project MapCop has a new release.
In case you don’t know MapCop is a program that analyzes BizTalk maps and produces
a report which alerts you to style problems early. At the current time it has
only two rules, but I expect to do allot of work on it over the next several weeks
to expand those rules further.
I’m also interested in recruiting help from other BizTalk developers who might be
interested. If you’d like to join the team, please drop me a comment and be
sure to include an email address where you can be reached.
In the meantime, head over to CodePlex and
check out the 0.2 bits and source.