June, 2006

Wow, our User Experience team continues to amaze! They have just released an update to the BizTalk Server 2006 documentation that contains tons of new content. I'd list it all here, but there's just too much so check out the attached doc for the full...

Guess it’s time for my monthly blog post. I could have sworn that my New Years resolution called for a post a week. Well best laid plans of mice and product managers and all that… Tech Ed US has come and gone. I’ve heard some unofficial feedback and even...

We have made a number of corrections to the files contained in Tutorial_update.zip (attached). The corrections to these files should alleviate some of the problems you have had with Tutorials 2 and 3. To use the updated files, you must replace the correct...

Now you will now why I haven't updated the tutorials in the last few weeks. We just shipped the Best Practices Analyzer, and now it is available for down load. You use the Analyzer to check your BTS installation and configuration against our list of best...

Awesome, Rob Bannerman (Product Management Team) emailed me to day to let me know that the registration site is open for the 2006 Business Process Management and Integration Conference in Redmond! You NEED to get to this conference. It will rock (it did...

The latest draft of the content for this year’s TechEd in Australia has been posted to Kleefy’s blog. http://blogs.technet.com/mkleef/archive/2006/06/09/434444.aspx Please comment!! Let me know if you want any Tracks relating to BizTalk removed...

BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer From Luke Nyswonger’s Blog at: ( http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/archive/2006/06/02/615429.aspx ) The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer examines a BizTalk Server 2006 deployment and generates...

Woohoo. This is exciting. One of our Program Managers in Redmond, Mitch, has had the pleasure of announcing the TAP program for BizTalk 2006 R2! Check this out… BTS just gets better! Thanks Mitch…. This is awesome!! Announcing BizTalk Server...

There’s no stopping the man!! Great stuff Mick.. Mick just recently presented a webcast (on request from our Redmond team) on BizTalk 2006 and Workflow Foundation working in harmony :-) Check it out here . I am on a flight to Sydney tonight so my...

Next week I will be in Sydney attending the Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Conference (ADIWS). http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/apin12a.jsp Actually, Microsoft is a Premier Sponsor so I will be mingling around...

Paul woods was kind enough to record the May 2006 Qld User Group BizTalk Session where Mark Daunt presented on the usage of the BizTalk Business Rules Engine. (Thanks Mark and Paul). The link to the session recording can be found here: Paul Woods has...

The task: make a web user authenticated (either with him directly providing user ID or password or through domain, if he is already logged in) and run ASP.Net code under his/her ID. Frankly, that’s very easy, but I noticed that sometimes even very good...

The new SharePoint Adapter is now included with the install of BizTalk. Typically, in a production environment, the SharePoint site you will be interfacing with is not the same as any of the BizTalk servers. When reading through the documentation, installing...

In response to recent questions/confusion, I posted an entry with links to the .NET 3.0 Beta 2 downloads -- ironically a few days later on Friday (June 23), they released a new version labeled the June CTP. So, to avoid being the cause of even more confusion...

If you're interested in how the worlds of Web Services and BizTalk Orchestrations come together, check out this article I wrote a while back. It's called Implementing Service Contracts with BizTalk Server 2004 . It focuses on the issues around mapping...

I've received numerous questions recently about where to find the latest and greatest WCF build, especially since the name change from WinFX to .NET 3.0. One way to find the bits is to browse to Microsoft's new .NET 3.0 portal site at http://netfx3.com...

For those of you who attended my WCF workshop yesterday at VSLive! Vegas, you can find the demo/sample code I promised here .

It's hard to image a Microsoft without a full-time Gates, but I guess we'll have to . It sounded like he was getting a little choked up at the end talking about Steve…but maybe it was just the video. ;-)

I will be speaking at VSLive! Las Vegas next week on Wednesday, June 21st. I'll be delivering the pre-conference workshop on Programming Windows Communication Foundation . Both Keith and Fritz are also on the speaker roster for this event -- should be...

The next thing on my agenda is a local UNUG (Utah .NET User's Group) talk, which will take place tomorrow night in South Jordan (Neumont). I'm going to speak on BizTalk Server 2006 -- one of my favorite topics these days. I'm going to focus primarily...