June, 2005

I took the BizTalk 2004 exam today and passed. I thought it was pretty hard, but the questions were fair, and a good test of your hands-on experience and understanding of the product. It would be hard to just cram for the exam from documents, if you don’t...

I recently came across a little un-documented feature of BizTalk with a promoted property... from a referenced schema

Last week I installed the BizTalk 2006 CTP bits obtained from Tech-Ed a couple of times on a VPC. I learned a couple of things during the install that others have also blogged on, but that are good things to keep in mind: 1. Follow Microsoft's installation...

Tech-Ed 2005 took place a couple of weeks ago and I'm now finding time to post some updates. Both Brandon and I staffed the Microsoft CSI booth and presented on Implementing Real-World Integration Patterns with BizTalk. For more information on the session...

I’ll be working on the “Ask the Experts” stand for BizTalk Server at TechEd in Amsterdam next week, along with other MVPs and Microsoft staff. Feel free to drop in if you have any BizTalk related questions. There’s a lot of BizTalk...

Abstract : I’ve using BAM to measure execution time in some orchestrations. I cannot use HAT because I needed to do some calculations to rest waiting time of the external processes. It’s extremely easy. Things get funny when we needed to get more that...

The product group have asked me to post this a nnouncement to let you know about the great online support that we have available, I strongly encourage you to take a look because (1) its free J , (2) there is a lot of good traffic thru it and (3) a lot...

The product group have asked me to post this a nnouncement to let you know about the great online support that we have available, I strongly encourage you to take a look because (1) its free J , (2) there is a lot of good traffic thru it and (3) a lot...

A whole raft of whitepapers for BizTalk have been released over the last several weeks - see here and here . I completed a whitepaper a short while back (though just released) on getting the most out of the BizTalk 2004 Management Pack and Microsoft Operations...

A whole raft of whitepapers for BizTalk have been released over the last several weeks - see here and here . I completed a whitepaper a short while back (though just released) on getting the most out of the BizTalk 2004 Management Pack and Microsoft Operations...

TechEd 2005 was a great time, and I really enjoyed the extended look at BizTalk 2006 - lots of great presentations. Much more has been done in this release than I had anticipated, and I look forward to digging into the CTP build. Thanks to those who attended...

TechEd 2005 was a great time, and I really enjoyed the extended look at BizTalk 2006 - lots of great presentations. Much more has been done in this release than I had anticipated, and I look forward to digging into the CTP build. Thanks to those who attended...

Impresive! from Steve W Thomas : For starter, why would you want to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration? I had to struggle for a bit to come up with a good reason… I can find it useful in debatching Scenarios that require mapping prior...

Namespaces are sacred changing them could result in chicken sacrificing and other ungodly practices. BizTalk is very xml-centric. If you change a namespace think about what references that schema, map, orchestration pipeline, rules composer vocabulary...

In a previous post , I described the home page of the new BAM Portal. Today, let's take a look at the Instance Search feature. The instance search allows you to search BAM data for a particular activity instance: You can add / remove clauses using...

In a previous post , I described the home page of the new BAM Portal. Today, let's take a look at the Instance Search feature. The instance search allows you to search BAM data for a particular activity instance: You can add / remove clauses using the...

BizTalk Server 2004 has a very cool architecture that allows it to balance the processing of a workload across many BizTalk Servers when they are configured to function as a group. When we use this "Group", or "Farm" configuration, all the BizTalk Servers...

Installing BizTalk Server 2004 sometimes entails installing Windows Sharepoint Services, specifically if you want to use Business Activity Services (Trading Party Mgmt, BAM portal, etc..). However, I see more and more folks configuring it improperly,...

You probably already read Scott's document on what is new in Business Activity Monitoring 2006 .Today, I'll shed some light on the brand new "out of the box" portal. All information are based on the CTP build you might have picked up...

There are many reasons, sure, and probably there are also reasons why plain text files can be better, but I would like to remark just only one reason, just because I fighting with it right now: Xml is human readable Or at least, it should be. I’m dealing...