October, 2005

Richard Seroter of Microsoft has published a useful blog posting at http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2005/10/27/485696.aspx in which he describes one technique for passing messages of any type through a BizTalk orchestration. Here is some further...

Here's something I've been meaning to write up for a long time. Originally intended as a blog post, it turned into an article for .NET Developer's Journal, and now, at last, here it is on my blog. Thanks to MartyWaz for first enlightening me to the technique...

Several people have asked me whether there will be a build of BizTalk Server that works on the RTM bits of SQL Server and Visual Studio .NET for the Launch. That's the plan. It won't be beta 2 because we are still working on our quality metrics versus...

Below discusses the second demo for a presentation that I did at the Business Process Integration & Workflow Conference in Redmond during the week of Oct 4. The title of the presentation was entitled: Handling Large Messages in BizTalk The first demo...

If you are working with the BizTalk Rules Engine then here are two sites that are definitely worth checking out: Defining Business Rules and The Business Rules Manifesto

On September 22nd we held the first Twin Cities BizTalk User Group at the Microsoft offices in Bloomington, MN. This was a great opportunity to see and talk to fellow BizTalk enthusiasts and catch up with people I hadn't seen in a while. I would like...

I had the pleasure of delivering a short talk at the Business Process Integration & Workflow Conference last week in Redmond. The whole conference was great, especially meeting quite a few folks in person I'd only conversed with via email. Being notified...

I had the pleasure of delivering a short talk at the Business Process Integration & Workflow Conference last week in Redmond. The whole conference was great, especially meeting quite a few folks in person I'd only conversed with via email. Being...

Is it KFC or Kentucky Fried Chicken? Well in that case legally it doesn't matter because the same company owns both the name and the abbreviation. Of course for marketing reasons they have swapped from the full-name to the abbreviation and back but that...

You can find my thoughts on a really simple message replay (message re-processing) technique for BizTalk in Stephen Thomas' The BizTalker newsletter. Check it out here . For additional clarification, I've created a quick Visio here .

You can find my thoughts on a really simple message replay (message re-processing) technique for BizTalk in Stephen Thomas' The BizTalker newsletter. Check it out here . For additional clarification, I've created a quick Visio here .

The is the fifth of five entries talking about schema design patterns. After looking at each of these schema design patterns now we can look at how we can use these design patterns in the BizTalk Editor. So, lets create reusable structures. Open the editor...

In talking with others, it appears that the NAnt vs. MSI deployment camps are pretty much split down the middle. I tend to lean towards MSI deployments for several reasons. When dealing with MSI packages, it is often necessary to go beyond the somewhat...

Oliver Rist wrote a column in his blog titled " What about BizTalk ?" Historically I haven't responded to these types of articles, but that's what blogging is supposed to be for - expressing your opinions and this seemed like a good article to respond...

In Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), rules are executed through a sequential, rather than an 'inferencing' engine. Although WF rule processing bears a superficial resemblance to rule processing in the Microsoft Business Rules Engine (MS BRE...

SSO -> RPC server is unavailable. I had problems with the Single Sign On (SSO) to get authentication to execute a SOAP request (or so I thought) In one of my actions of trying to resolve it, I tried to reset the SSO server name to the machine name...

Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 has been released last week on September 27. You can download the SP2 here . You can download the full version of Windows SharePoint Services with SP2 integrated (slipstream) from here . From my perspective...