Blogs

This blog post represents the first in a weekly series that will highlight things you need to know about new features in BizTalk Server 2013. This week we will look at the new mapping engine and how the underlying changes in the engine might effect the behavior you see when using the BizTalk Mapper. If […] Blog Post by: Nick Hauenstein

One of the interesting challenges I’ve faced in the last year was creating a flat file schema for a well established custom flat file format that was in use at one of my clients. What made this flat file format different from most that I had dealt with in the past was that this flat […] Blog Post by: Johann

I have created a video walkthrough of implementing side-by-side versioning with a web-hosted xamlx workflow service here: Side by Side Versioning with a Web-Hosted Xamlx Workflow Service This project provides a demo of implementing side-by-side versioning with a web-hosted xamlx workflow service, as described in the accompanying MSDN topic Side by Side Versioning in WorkflowServiceHost . The WorkflowServiceHost side-by-side versioning introduced in .NET Framework 4.5 provides the capability to host...

I just encountered an error using the BAM views. None of the BAM views could be opened and I got following error: An unspecified error has occurred. Use the navigation bar on the left to access Business Activity Monitoring views. If the problem persists, contact your System Administrator. Unfortunately, this error doesn’t give much information […] Blog Post by: Cnext

This sample script shows how to create virtual machines in Windows Azure to prepare an installation of SharePoint Server. Le script suivant montre comment automatiser la création de machines virtuelles dans Windows Azure destinées à accueillir une installation de SharePoint Server   #region set default Windows Azure subscription Import-Module azure #select default subscription and storage account $subscription = 'My Azure subscription' Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscription...

BizTalk Server includes a powerful publish/subscribe mechanism for messaging applications that works by creating and filling subscriptions, which provides a highly efficient and scalable platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. The BizTalk ESB Toolkit extends the functionality of BizTalk Server to provide a range of new capabilities focused on building robust, connected, service-oriented applications that […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Many of will like myself will code once and a while. As a BizTalk professional it is inevitable that you will code for instance a pipeline component, a helper class, functoid, or other custom code to support your solution or test. There are many tools available to make you more productive and provide you ability to create robust and high quality code. Either you find open source tools through

I was doing some research on Power View capabilities recently and came across some good blogs on it, thought I will compile and share it: Video Series: Visualizing the Summer Olympics. Microsoft Senior Program Manager Sean Boon created a good blog series on Power View. He talks about how you can set custom images in power [...] Blog Post by: kadasani

For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse. The goal has been to build an open, wire-level protocol standard for messaging that enables easy interoperability between different vendor products. Back in October 2012, the OASIS standards organization announced...

If you happen to be close to Oslo, Norway June 6th you should definitely attend this event The event is hosted by Microsoft Norway and is purely dedicated to BizTalk and especially BizTalk 2013. Here’s the agenda: 12.00 -12.30 welcome and a little inspiration around integrations. 12.30 – 13.15 Integration – from strategy to successful [...] Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

UDDI Services provides Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) capabilities for sharing information about Web services within an organization’s intranet, between business partners on an extranet, or on the Internet. UDDI Services can help improve the productivity of developers and information technology (IT) professionals with more reliable and manageable applications. With UDDI Services you can […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

For BizTalk people probably you don’t need any introduction to Message Box Viewer. It became as the de-facto tool to analyse and fix any issue you find in your environment. The tool was initially built as hobby project by one of the Microsoft PSS (support) person called Jean-Pierre Auconie (JP) and over the years it’s [...] The post Message Box Viewer 13 included in BizTalk Server 2013 appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

reg ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General" /v "SuppressUpperCaseConversion" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 I just thought I'd put this here in case I ever lose the info again. :) Isn't setting up a new machine fun. Blog Post by: tilovell09

BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 along with BizTalk AppFabric Connect, RFID features, UDDI services and ESB Toolkit are not automatically installed with the default installation process, instead you have to additional install this features The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack contains adapters that enable enterprise applications and databases to interface with each other by implementing a common […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

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 blog post, and the accompanying video that shows the demo running . To get to the bottom line, I used 2 BizTalk VMs on Azure, and 1 running “on prem” (in a Hyper-V VM). The roles of the servers are...