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As you’re probably aware, Windows Azure IaaS went general availability recently. There are three BizTalk images in the gallery that you use to create a new BizTalk virtual machine. This was too much for me to resist, I wanted to do something cool and distributed as a proof-of-concept. The result is this...

This happened to me. I’m not sure if it will prove to be a common problem, or just something specific to me, but I put this post together to save time for others that may run into it. Scenario: I did a clean install of BizTalk Sever 2013. When I went into Visual Studio 2012, I did not have the option...

BizTalk Server 2013 (the 8th release!) has released to manufacturing, and is available NOW for download at MSDN for MSDN subscribers. You can read the team blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2013/03/21/biztalk-server-2013-is-now-rtm.aspx A list of enhancements can be...

  In case you missed it, the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery now contains an image for BizTalk Server, letting you create an Azure Virtual Machine with BizTalk installed. It was super-easy to do. I had to run the BizTalk configuration wizard and turn on SQL Agent, but that’s all. In a few...

After years of publishing BizTalk WCF-Services and countless hours spend configuring the services in the wizard I just recently found out the WCF-Publishing Wizard can be started with a configuration file provided.

This blog post contains all needed steps to create a generic BizTalk ESB endpoint, hosted in Internet Information Services, using the netTcpBinding. Windows Activation Services is required.

When a single appdomain is opening two (or more) service bus relay endpoints that have the same path (what is added after the servicebus.windows.net), but have a different namespace, the following exception is raised: A registration already exists for URI xxx

How to create a report containing the CPU usage of a BizTalk host instance using SCOM.

Troubleshooting the WCF LOB SDK 2010 installation when you think you have done everything correctly...

This post is about an error we encountered during the installation of the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Leap Year Date Hotfix (See KB article 2435900 for details). The hotfix requires a certain product version key for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, while this product version key is too low when...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 ships with some assemblies that assist you with the administration and deployment of your BizTalk environment. There was a small challenge to dynamically detect the BizTalk Servers of a BizTalk Group, during an automated deployment.

Experienced a problem with side-by-side deployment of pipelines. We opened a case at Microsoft Support and found a decent workaround.

This blog post describes how MSI's of BizTalk Server applications can be versioned.

This blog post contains some guidelines for consuming web services. We will both handle pure messaging scenario and web service calls from within an orchestration. There's also a distinguishment between asynchronous and synchronous flows

Some important notes about monitoring BizTalk SQL Agent Jobs with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

I am proud to say that BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed has finally shipped. This is my eighth book. It never ceases to amaze me how long this process can take when you’re working with a bunch of highly-skilled super-busy individuals. This book is actually the second BizTalk “Unleashed” book I have done...

This is another learning from lab I ran for the BizTalk Server 2010 Performance Optimization Guide.  The learning:  unused, extra MessageBoxes (with publishing disabled) that are allowed to stay configured in the BizTalk group (they still show up in the … More » Blog Post by: Tim...

Richard Seroter, recognized blogger, BizTalk MVP and book author, has a series of interviews with people in the “connected technology” space. Yesterday, he published its 31st interview, with me. If you want to know more about the way we see the AppFabric Service Bus positioned and used, I...

Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 use a default “Power Plan” of “Balanced“.  While this can save on energy and cooling costs by allowing Windows to control a number of motherboard and processor settings for reduced power consumption, it can … More » Blog Post by...

Introduction Recently I had chance to work with a health care company that makes an extensive use of the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 for processing a large amount of messages containing clinical and administrative information. Health care companies need a … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

In the past, we have always recommended disabling Intel’s Hyper-Threading in the server’s BIOS on your BizTalk Server and SQL Server machines (for processors that are Hyper-Threading enabled).  With Intel’s current-generation (Nehalem+) of Hyper-Threading, is this recommendation...

The BizTalk Server 2010 Performance Optimization Guide was released earlier in the year (for those who missed it).  I spent a bunch of time working on the lab for this guide and then working with our user education team on … More » Blog Post by: Tim Wieman

Earlier this week, the first CTP of the Service Bus enhancements was released; the May CTP. This CTP was announced at TechEd and on the AppFabric Team Blog . One week prior to that, Codit has been accepted in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) of the Windows Azure AppFabric team. In this program,...

I have co-authored a whitepaper on the TechNet Wiki based on a customer project. The paper “Implementing end-to-end ordered delivery using Microsoft BizTalk Server and SQL Server Service Broker” is available here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/implementing-end...