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Overview One of the biggest barriers to ESB Toolkit adoption I have come across is the installation and configuration overhead. This is a genuine concern, especially when you need to deviate from the standard configuration. If project timelines are tight, this can result in the ESB Toolkit being overlooked. Through working on a number of [...] Blog Post by: Colin Meade

Creating and using content types in SharePoint is often considered as the best practice; however SharePoint workflows created for SharePoint 2013 cannot be associated anymore with content types. This is a very important point to consider if you are moving to the new platform In MSDN you can read “Unlike previous versions, SharePoint 2013 does [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

In a previous post we announced the release of the new BizTalk 2013, listing all of the new features it will bring. In the upcoming posts I would like to explain in more detail some of these features, and the consequences it will bring with it. First of all, one of the changes introduced in [...] Blog Post by: Cnext

Recently we received a support call from one of our BizTalk360 customer saying, they were able to control all the send port/receive locations using BizTalk360 but whenever they try to start/stop send port or enable/disable receive location that uses WCF-SQL adapter it throws the following exception. Failed to create ‘WCF-SQL’ Transport Component Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM.BtsException: Failed to [...] The post BizTalk Admin only installation bug : Failed to create WCF-SQL Transport...

One of the nicer JavaScripts out there to work with must me AngularJS . Now there are quite a few other ones out there and I have used a number of them but AngularJS seems to be the most structured of them. And while it is really powerful it is also really easy to get started with. AngularJS is a client side framework for creating rich web applications using JavaScript and HTML. It isn’t just a library like jQuery or Knockout.js where you create the structure and call into the library as you see...

Windows Azure HDInsight is the simplest option to get a Hadoop cluster up and running very quickly in a Windows Azure environment. Among other numerous advantages, this service allows to use Windows Azure blob storage (ASV or Azure Storage Vault for short) exactly as HDFS (Hadoop distributed file system). In its public beta version, Windows Azure HDInsight uses ASV as its default file system. I put some screen shots of what you can easily do (in a matter of minutes) with such a cluster in this post...

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 to add ESB Toolkit itinerary designers to a BizTalk project. Explanation: During the BizTalk 2013 beta the itinerary designer was distributed as a VSIX package. However, in the RTM version it is no longer...

Skipping ahead a bit After some feedback about the last article (thanks everyone) you all seem to know how to follow instructions from Microsoft. You all told me to skip to the part about the instructions being wrong. So I will. Make sure to read the entire article. 32 vs 64 bit Ever heard of that issue? Ever run into trouble because of that? Of course you have! Now you might be able to avoid it. When you reach step 11 in the article “ How to restore your databases ” you run into your first mistake...

In this podcast Hassan Fadili speaks with Neno Loje (VS ALM MVP) about some of the new features in Visual Studio ALM & Visual Studio Team Foundation Service 2012. Of course, Neno also talks about some of the success stories and other areas that might be interesting to anyone who has a passion for application life cycle management. Links: Neno TFS blog: www.tfsblog.com The WHY book on TFS: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous...

Today is a special day for me, it’s my birthday, and I will continue the tradition of giving something to the community on this day (I started this tradition last year)… In the past I wrote a series of posts describing step by step how to install and configure BizTalk Server 2010. One of this [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

BizTalk Server being a middleware platform, most of your important business transactions will start to flow through your BizTalk environments. It will soon become a no brainer, to start monitoring the health and availability of your BizTalk environments. There are few options available for you to monitor your BizTalk environments. Most of the popular enterprise [...] The post BizTalk Monitoring Solutions (SCOM vs BizTalk360) white paper by Kent Weare appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post...

I have put together a quick 10 minute video that introduced Windows Azure IaaS and walks you through creating your first Windows Azure Virtual Machine! I put a lot of time into adding cool animations and fun dialog, or so I think. Download this video from BizTalkGurus.com or view on YouTube . Enjoy and let me know what you think!

For the past month and half, in my spare time, I have been working on a whitepaper that compares and contrasts System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and BizTalk360.  I have used both products extensively in my professional life and in order to remain objective within the paper I have driven my evaluation off of requirements.  These requirements are based upon my experience of managing the 24x7 operations of a BizTalk environment at a large Power Distribution company in Canada. The paper...

Some months ago, I was asked for an intervention regarding a SSL client certificate issue. There was a problem related to the setup of transport security (SSL) of a WCF service hosted in IIS 7.0, using client certificates that are mapped to a local account. Let’s have a look.

'Fluent Interfaces' have been a bit of a buzz for probably long enough that I am not justified in buzzing about them. I was pretty excited when first seeing them applied to databases in form of NHibernate and also kind of excited to see all that code-first-ness come to Entity Framework, which had never really convinced me with the whole 'visual design experience' thing it had when I first looked at it way back in EF 2 or whatever. Those were the days. Annnnyway... It went a long time...