December, 2006

Hello all! Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Tony Bernard and I am a Senior Program Manager on the BizTalk Server team. I am taking over for Suren Machiraju who, as relayed in his final post, has moved on to new and exciting opportunities...

I just created a Wiki page to supplement my BizTalk Samples page - this one is a list of my workflow samples and posts. It isn't complete - but you can see the beginning of the list here .

This is again one of the little known facts when troubleshooting your HIPPA or EDI test or production enviornment. Since the service does not store the original filename of documents that are brought in using the file or ftp recieve handler, you are stuck...

Here are a few links that might help you to answer some of the BizTalk questions that you may face in a job interview. All the best ;) http://geekswithblogs.net/sthomas/archive/2005/12/13/63077.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/sthomas/archive/2005/12/29...

Charles Young has written an excellent article on Compensation in BizTalk. Check it out here . http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2006/12/06/100426.aspx

Microsoft released an editor for XML files, you can download it here . Handy features include: - Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values. - Incremental search (Ctrl+I) in both tree and text views, so as you...

As expected here are some predictions (not in order) for 2007: o OASIS finally approves WS-ReliableMessaging and we don’t hear about WS-Reliability anymore. o The rise of Semantic Web: We should see more vendors supporting RDF, SPARQL, etc and consequently...

Just recently I had a customer ask me if they could use their existing BizTalk infrastructure to manage events that were spawned from their primary application. So, I built a small demonstration that I've outlined here. Basically, this company's primary...

One of my favourite C# blogs at the moment is ‘I know the answer (it’s 42)‘ by Abhinaba Basu (http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/). Abhinaba currently works for Microsoft at the development centre in Hyderabad, India. I really like this...

Our current infrastructure supports over 200 interfaces with external trading partners in the B2B role. Unfortunately, some of the cXML partners cannot handle Xml Namespaces and insist on receiving DOCTYPES. Although DOCTYPE’s can be added through...

I've seen one too many BizTalk groups with poorly configured Host/Host Instances. So I've decided to create a BASIC post on the subject. This is a pretty sophisticated topic having to do with scaling, high availability, resource management etc...

Let's see one of the projects I've made with the Business Rule Engine from the Microsoft BizTalk tool set. There are the EDI data in"very flexible format". The source partners fill up the fields of these documents by different applications...

Let's see one of the projects I've made with the Business Rule Engine from the Microsoft BizTalk tool set. There are the EDI data in"very flexible format". The source partners fill up the fields of these documents by different applications...

W3C just published the Web Services Policy assertion for authors . This document intends to provide some guidance for architects working with "Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework" and "Web Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment" specifications...

I've got several talks coming up in the next month, if your interested in learning more about any of these subjects I encourage you to check these out. Scott Colestock's BizTalk Deployment Framework - January 10th, 2006 - Dallas BizTalk User Group This...

Here is a list of macros for the FILE send handler that I found on Jan Tielens' Bloggings . This is something I find everyone googling for quite often, so thought of putting it up here for quick reference. For the details of each of the macros, please...

I have put together a short video that walks through how simple it is to expose a simple Orchestration as a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services. This video uses the BasicHTTP Binding and the WCF Wizard. This is intended to give you a quick...

The term Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is widely used in the context of implementing the messaging capabilities of a service oriented infrastructure. An ESB is one of many building blocks that make up a comprehensive service oriented infrastructure. Microsoft...

Holiday season is a great time to catch up on reading. Barnes & Noble now has a dedicated page for us on BizTalk books. Customers get up to 25% off the books. Happy Reading! Marjan Kalantar

A recent question on the HL7 forum was how to manually create an acknowledgment from within BizTalk and send it out on a Request/Response port. There are two approaches to this: 1. Manually create the acknowledgment within the orchestration 2. Have the...