Sometimes getting BizTalk to communicate successfully with Commerce Server 2007 using the provided Orders Adapter can be tricky. Here is a quick tip when initially setting up the Orders Receive Adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you receive the following error: Creating the search clause factory failed for Commerce Server Orders Receive Adapter. Message You are not authorized to perform the requested operation. Make sure the user the BizTalk Host is running under is added to the Commerce Server Order...

Recently I've been doing some work Commerce Server 2007 and BizTalk Server 2006 R2. I have been using the Microsoft supplied Commerce Server Adapters for integration between Commerce Server and various systems. For those of you who do not have a lot of experience with Commerce Server, both the BizTalk Adapters and the Commerce Server Catalog Manage use the supplied Commerce Server Web Services for Catalog Imports. When working with large catalog imports, both tools will run into a minor limitation...

A few weeks ago I released Volume 11 of The BizTalker. This issue, featuring an article by Eric Stott, walks though the automatic removal of BAM definitions during the uninstall of a BizTalk Application. Read this issue online . Be one of the first to receive the BizTalker by signing up for the free email newsletter here .

I've made some updates to the BizTalk Community OPML File. I currently have 88 Active BizTalk Bloggers on the list. Most of these can be found on our community blog aggregation site . For anyone wishing to use their own blog reader, the updated OPML can be found here . I also have a separate list of not-so-active BizTalk Blogger. These people may have moved blogs or changed career - but the existing content is still relevant. That OPML file can be found on the same download page. As always, if...

I just noticed Amazon.com has a new BizTalk book available. It is called PRO EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 by Mark Beckner. I have not had a chance to look at this book myself, but with the new EDI changes in BizTalk 2006 R2 I'm sure this book would be a valuable resource - if you had to do EDI.... Please post any comments if you have read or reviewed this book and let us know what you think about it.

WCF support through the different WCF Adapters provided in BizTalk R2 is a powerful new feature. With the announcement of Oslo, working with the WCF Adapters now is even more critical to a BizTalk Developer. If you are like me, you do a majority of your BizTalk work on a Windows XP computer or laptop. This can cause some problems when working with the WCF Adapters. Lets take a look at what needs to be done in order to work with WCF and BizTalk on Windows XP. First, lets look at the core issue - lack...

Last week, I released Volume 10 of The BizTalker. The headline for this issue is the release of Visual Studios 2008 and the .Net 3.5 framework. View this issue here . Be one of the first to receive the BizTalker by signing up for the free email newsletter here .

Yesterday, Visual Studios 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 was released by Microsoft. I, of course, immediately download the Team Suite edition from MSDN and installed it on a Virtual Machine. Then, went about my daily business of opening up a BizTalk project to get some work done. The project conversion wizard opened and ran but the projects were unable to open inside Visual Studios. This really wasn't a big surprise and doesn't cause me much pain since none of my projects are working with...

Today (on Tuesday November 6th) I have upgrade the blogs and forums of BizTalkGurus.com to the newest version of Community Server 2007. You may have noticed the site was down for about an hour during the upgrade and everyone will have to login again. Please post a comment here or send me an email if you have any problems with the upgrade. The only problem I seem to be having is I keep getting logged out every few minutes. If anyone else has this problem, let me know. All my forum and blog templates...

I've posted the power point slides and three demos from the SOA and BPM Conference.  The three demos cover: 1. Untyped Messages and Dynamic Transforms 2. Partner and Self Correlating Ports 3. Convoys You can find the content here: http://www.biztalkgurus.com/soa2007/index.aspx This package also includes the Convoy Virtual Subscription viewer I showed in the demo.  This can also be downloaded separately here . I'd also love any feedback from anyone who attended the session.  Did the...

Today at the SOA Conference in Redmond Microsoft publicly announced Oslo. The next generation of Service Oriented Technologies that will be included in the next major wave of product releases. Oslo will focus on two core areas: modeling and services. While Oslo itself is not a product, it will most likely have modeling tools specific to building, monitoring, and deploying Oslo based solutions. Oslo will introduce new service offerings with a strong focus on "cloud" based technologies -...

I'm just putting the final touches on my demos for my session at the 2007 SOA and BPM Conference in Seattle.  My session is on Friday, November 2nd at 10 AM in the Cascade room.  Session details are below.  Hope to see you there!   Track : Solution Architecture Track Session Title : BizTalk Advanced Orchestration Concepts and Best Practices Session Level : 300 Session Abstract : Business processes are a required component in most Enterprise Integration solutions today. Business...

Microsoft has released the developer edition of BizTalk 2006 R2 on MSDN. Along with Windows 08 RC0. Anyone with MSDN access should now be able to access the software. Non-MSDN users can still access R2 but its a free trial version . I'm not sure what the plans are for posting other editions on MSDN or what the time frame is. Happy BizTalking!

The long awaited BizTalk 2006 R2 is now available as a trial version on Tech Net. Download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738059.aspx

I have placed the Demos and Slides I presented at Tech Ed online if anyone is interested in taking a look at them. This was presented last month at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando. The demos show how to use Untyped Messages, Dynamic Mapping, Self-Correlation Ports, and WCF Calls in pure messaging. The WCF demos require R2. These demos are as-is and may not run on your system without some configuration changes. To view the power points, Office 07 is required. The demos and slides can be found here . Thanks...

Just wanted to point out I'll be at Tech Ed in Orlando next week presenting my first break out session. The session is "Advanced Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 Concepts". It's SOA312 on Thursday at 2:45 PM. The abstract is below: "Business processes are a required component in most Enterprise Integration solutions today. Business processes are modeled, designed, and built inside BizTalk Server 2006 R2 using Orchestrations. Orchestration can range from a few simple shapes to a complex multi Orchestration...

The long awaited Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book is now available on Amazon.com. I haven't had a chance to look at this one yet, but the outline looked very good. I'll try to post an update once I get around to looking though it.

The public beta of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is now available on http://connect.microsoft.com . I think all you have to do is sign in with a passport and go to Available Connections. BizTalk 2006 R2 adds some great new features on the adapter side along with support for WCF. Enjoy!

Ready to take a look at some of the new features of BizTalk 2006 R2? I have put together a short 13 minute video walking through how simple it is to expose BizTalk Orchestrations as WCF Services and then consume them inside a Windows Application. This video show how to use the BasicHTTP Binding and the WCF Wizard. This is intended to give you a first look into some of the new features in BizTalk 2006 R2. Take a look at the video today! Available via live play or WMI download. Source code is also...

The latest edition of The BizTalker has been released. This issue headlines John Callaway from QuickLearn. He talks about Specify Now, Specify Later, Dynamic, and Direct Port Binding options inside an Orchestration. He goes into details about when to use what and the scenarios each works well for. View this issue online or subscribe now to make sure you do not miss an issue. The BizTalker is published every month or so to over 1400 people worldwide.