November, 2005

Both I and others have been experiencing an issue in BizTalk 2006 beta 2 (and previous versions) whereby if you attempt to deploy a BizTalk assembly in Visual Studio that references another BizTalk assembly that is also being referenced from another BizTalk...

I am in the process of writing a new BizTalk 2006 course as below: Preamble BizTalk is all about messaging and how messages are processed and routed between a companies internal applications (for example: Sap/Mainframe/Peoplesoft/ Database/JD Edwards...

Hi all. I am still here. Just get a bit busy and disappear for a while. :) :) So one of the cool things in Pathfinder is some updated backup and restore features. It is still based around the same log shipping story, but we have automated almost all of...

Hi all. I am still here. Just get a bit busy and disappear for a while. :) :) So one of the cool things in Pathfinder is some updated backup and restore features. It is still based around the same log shipping story, but we have automated almost all of...

While I was at the San Francisco launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006, it struck me what an important milestone the event was in BizTalk’s life cycle. For the first time, BizTalk has been elevated to a high-profile...

One bug that currently exists in all pre-release versions of BizTalk 2006 is the way an external assembly reference is held onto from within a map. If you call an external assembly and use the "Test Map" option to test your map, you have to restart Visual...

There is an excellent blog article writen by Richard Seroter on how to enable static methods in the BizTalk 2006 rule engine. Seems that for the time being you have to get into the registry. I wonder why these essential functions are always hidden? Are...

My blog entries are usually technical in nature. This entry is more of a marketing entry discussing how BizTalk 2004/2006 can be used to implement the following specific business scenario: 1) An insurance underwriter requires information (for example...

What if you selected not to deploy analysis services parts of BizTalk when you installed, it is optional. Well after some digging around I discovered that I could make it work. So how can I do it then?

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Beta2 is now available on Microsoft Beta Place. If you have not signed up already for BizTalk 2006 Beta program you can follow the instructions that I posted in this previous post in order to download the bits. If you have...

We had our first Northwest Connected Systems user group meeting on the Microsoft campus Nov 15th, 2005. We had a solid turn-out and are definitely looking to grow the user group. The highlight of the meeting was Scott's presentation on BizTalk 2006. Thank...

It always comes down to choices. The biggest part of choosing is knowing what you gain and what you give up with each alternative. Whenever I start talking about Windows Workflow I am always asked many questions. Typically the first question that is asked...

At the end of the last post I noted that there's a bug in BizTalk's side-by-side deployment of convoy orchestrations, and once it's fixed then I'd provide a convoy sample. It's now been fixed by a post-SP1 hotfix, and it will enable you to side-by-side...

Two tutorials, EAI, & B2B which are much easier to follow, due to the inclusion of additional screen shots.

Whatsmore you don't need to wait until midnight to pick it up either :). As of now BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2 is available at betaplace. We haven't updated ms.com yet (its coming) but the instructions are the same as the CTP . This time around there is...

WSS with SP2 can run in 32-bit emulation mode on a 64-bit machine/OS but there are a few manual steps that need to be done in order to get that working. Step 1 - First of all, set the IIS application pool to run as 32 bit. On 64 bit machines, SharePoint...

I had a chance to speak at the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group last Thursday. It was a great turnout, entirely too much pizza, and a lot of fun to talk to folks throughout the area about how they are using BizTalk. The deployment talk had 2004 content...

I had a chance to speak at the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group last Thursday. It was a great turnout, entirely too much pizza, and a lot of fun to talk to folks throughout the area about how they are using BizTalk. The deployment talk had 2004 content...

Hi, One of my work colegues, Dag König, finally persuaded me to sit an interview for his blog. Dag is one of Sweden's experts in all things SOA, Microsoft, and beta, and has been running one of the most popular developers blogs in Sweden for a couple...

Hi folks, Sorry for the long delay since my last post, I just got back from a 3 weeks vacation. My parents visited US for the first time and I took some time off to show them how wonderful Puget Sound is. Originally, I am from Romania but I moved here...