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In a few weeks, I’ll be heading to New Orleans to speak at Microsoft TechEd for the first time. My topic – Patterns of Cloud Integration – is an extension of things I’ve talked about this year in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and in my latest Pluralsight course. However, I’ll also be covering some entirely new ground […] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Just like me if you have created the host instances for all the hosts on every machine ( 2 in this example ) in BizTalk group and still wondering why you are not getting the count of host instance equal to number of host multiplied by the BizTalk server (in above case 17*2=34) then this could be the answer.- In this example there were 3 isolated hosts; BizTalk360 was not considering

  Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model Using repeating elements in AngularJS Filtering the data in an AngularJS ngRepeat element   Showing a list of items like in the previous post is nice but if the list is large most users appreciate the possibility to search in it. Turns out that AngularJS has that already build in so it is really simple to do.   We are using exactly the same controller as before, all it...

Hey everybody, Just for fun, some relations told me about their biztalks servers issues during load test sessions. They rans too much slowly and get a lot of dead lock on the messagebox. I start by analyzing job agent state. And here it is, the SQL agent is not RUNNING since a long time. Consequence : […] Blog Post by: Jeremy Ronk

Microsoft Office Excel is required for using the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) feature in BizTalk Server. You use the BAM Office Excel Workbook to define the business processes you want to monitor. You also use the BAM Excel Workbook to define the way in which business users see the data collected by BAM. Note: BizTalk […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

One of he goals of the ASP.NET WebAPI is to make REST style API controllers more testable than more traditional WCF services where in the past. For the most part that is true but there are cases where an ApiController depends on the actual incoming request and its data and things can become a bit more difficult. Testing a simple ApiController that gets data Suppose we have the following ASP.NET WebAPI Controller with two Get methods, the first returns the complete list of books and the second returns...

In BizTalk 2009 and BizTalk 2010, there are often problems when installing the ESB Toolkit but then it (almost) always works well. In BizTalk 2013 The BizTalk Server installer now provides the option of installing ESB Toolkit as well. The configuration process is also much simpler so you would think it’s now more integrated with BizTalk Server 2013. Unfortunately, that is not entirely true. Installation has indeed become easier but also there are some new bugs added! A great feature of the ESB Toolkit...

SAP supports a few different architectures when it comes to scaling out. In some environments, mainly smaller environments, the components that facilitate sending and receiving messages (such as IDOCs, BAPIs or RFCs) may be co-hosted on an Application Server. In some larger environments a dedicated Messaging Server(s) may be provided. We can also use a named destination that we define in our saprfc.ini file. Up until this point all of my experience integrating with SAP has occurred through an Application...

This is a continuation from two other blog posts about upgrading from BizTalk 2010 to BizTalk 2013. Mike who I mentioned previously has given the following tip if you are having trouble getting the Alerting service in the Exception Management Service working in BizTalk 2013. “….make sure: 1) BizTalk ESB Exception Notification.exe has updated assembly […] Blog Post by: mbrimble

  Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model Using repeating elements in #AngularJS     In the previous  posts I showed how to get started with AngularJS and use some of the basic AngularJS directives to data bind. In these examples I uses a really simple single element to bind to. However in lots of business cases you really need to display a list of repeating elements. Fortunately this is really easy to do...

How to move a content db from a SharePoint Dev farm to a SharePoint test farm. step 1. backup the dev farm content db step 2. go to your test farm, copy the backup to the SQL Server backup location If you don’t know the default SQL server backup location, start SQL Server Management Studio […] Blog Post by: sergeluca

Again in the previous step “Enable Internet Information Services” I mentioned that we should install the SMTP Server feature, why? If you wish to configure BAM Alerts, you must have configured SQL Server Database Mail feature (we will see how to accomplish that afterwards) and I will intend to configure this features using your local […] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

With the latest release of a BizTalk administration white paper by Tord G. Nordahl the story of running and maintaining BizTalk is complete. Through BizTalk360 site you can obtain the white paper: Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments. This paper will you learn how to pro-actively avoid some of the scenarios like unplanned downtime, data loss or crippled

In the past week I have had the opportunity to speak at two events. On May 1st I spoke at the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group and on May 6th I gave two presentations at the BizTalk Bootcamp in Charlotte. It was a lot of fun putting these demos together and I received a lot of good feedback so hopefully you will also benefit from them. You can find the slide deck here: http://sdrv.ms/12fBU53 Note: Some of the Service Bus slides were borrowed from Clemens Vasters’ deck which he has made freely...

In the previous step “Enable Internet Information Services” I mentioned that we should install the Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 feature, why? If we plan to use/configure SharePoint Services adapter or SharePoint Online when used with SharePoint Services Client Side Object Model (CSOM), then Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) feature is required. WIF is required if you [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira