February, 2005

The large message support story in BizTalk Server 2004 is a complex one, mainly because the definition of large message varies significantly. This, in turn, is complicated by the fact that our customers expect everything to work with all of the possible...

Hi, Lee's been trying for a while now to get more of us to post our knowledge to the blog, so here I am. My name is Jean-Emile Elien, and I work on the BizTalk Messaging Runtime along with Lee. I've been keeping notes on a couple of topics that...

The large message support story in BizTalk Server 2004 is a complex one, mainly because the definition of large message varies significantly. This, in turn, is complicated by the fact that our customers expect everything to work with all of the possible...

I was just reading Mike Holdorf's post on the bts_CleanupMsgbox stored procedure. The team I work with has been able to make good use of this sproc as well, especially while stress testing. One thing to beware of is this: Your habit for doing this...

I was just reading Mike Holdorf's post on the bts_CleanupMsgbox stored procedure. The team I work with has been able to make good use of this sproc as well, especially while stress testing. One thing to beware of is this: Your habit for doing this kind...

Someone asked if they could set the value of a public variable field in a .NET class from within an expression shape on an orchestration. For example:

Would you like to know all about the WSE Adapter for BizTalk Server 2004? Here is a relevant webcast: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032266668&CountryCode=US...

I was looking to see if there was anything else other than, %MessageID% on the send port, for the file transport.

Get the last BizTalk Server documentation update here . As always the online help remains available at MSDN as well. Together with this core documentation, following updated documents are also available for download: the user guide for information workers...

There's four new guys on the team, and about 30 new articles, with a "Whats New" section. Get it here ...

Paul Somers (winner of the BTS2004 competition) was so kind to notify me that his BizTalk Admin tool has moved here . Reading his latest post: the BizTalk Exam certainly tests your BAM skills as well Paul :-) It looks like we've a lot of good community...

We just released the WSE 2.0 adapter for BizTalk Server! In my opinion this is an important milestone: webservices are increasingly fast becoming the number one interoperable transport both inside and between companies. The need for security, trust and...

As Scott Woodgate mentioned the exam for BizTalk 2004 has been release, you can find it here

Having blogged on an undocumented registry key recently, I’d thought I’d introduce you, gentle reader, to another bit of hidden functionality in BizTalk Server 2004. This time, my subject is an entire wizard which is not registered or set...

Microsoft has released the preparation guide for the BizTalk Server 2004 exam . It looks like it covers a broad spectrum of the product, so there’s quite a lot to learn. I plan to have a go at it pretty soon, but I have quite a bit to get through...

A Biztalker's focus is primarily on the BizTalk SP1 release nowadays so I thought it might be useful to post about the arrival of the Enterprise library. Yep, it's finally out! For more information check MSDN . Here are 2 fine bloggers that blog about...