July, 2007

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...

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. so please...

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource /opensource is intended for anyone interested in understanding Microsoft’s perspective on OSS. OSS technical content will continue to be hosted on Port 25 , the community site for the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft...

Am I the only one who thinks this is kinda funny ;-) VIsta Gadget showing how many days to launch.....!

This year I finally get a Guernsey to the Partner Conference in Hamilton Island! I will be presenting a session called "Optimizing your SOA and Business Process Infrastructure"!. What's that mean? Beats me ;-) Essentially it is a chance for me to shed...

The main problem I have with developing BizTalk orchestrations is the fact that I’m so blind when it comes to follow the runtime processing. Using the debugger that is part of the HAT tool is slow and clumsy...

During our crusade for Home Server and Beta programs we faced a multitude of home network configurations. We learned a lot, and some of that we did not like. In fact, that's our beta-participants who did not like that, it's just they did not know...

During our crusade for Home Server and Beta programs we faced a multitude of home network configurations. We learned a lot, and some of that we did not like. In fact, that's our beta-participants who did not like that, it's just they did not know what...

Chris and Mike confirm the details of the upcoming SOA and Business Process conference in October 2007. I was fortunate enough to attend last year’s event, and would highly encourage folks to attend this year. It’s a great place to meet up...

Hi folks, I'm busily preparing for TechEd2007 and one of my session is developer focused about Workflow in Microsoft Sharepoint. This will be where all my slides and sample code will be shortly :) See you soon.....

What happens to downstream SOAP recipients if the message sent from BizTalk is a different “version” than the original? Let’s assume I have an enterprise schema that represents my company’s employees (e.g. “Workforce”...

I recently was working for a company who needed to store data coming in from the 837 claim into a database. Experiencing many poorly designed databases to store claim data before, I create a database structure that will capture what the client was looking...

This years Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2007 is going to at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington, October 29th to November 2nd. The website for information and registration is now live at http://mssoaandbpconference.com...

Jon Flanders, one of my BizTalk Server MVP colleagues is coming to Australian in November to deliver another in the ongoing Readify Industrial Strength Series, Applied Windows Workflow Foundation. To get the detail and to enrol visit http://www.readify...

This years Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2007 is going to at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington, October 29th to November 2nd. The website for information and registration is now live at http://mssoaandbpconference...

Jon Flanders, one of my BizTalk Server MVP colleagues is coming to Australian in November to deliver another in the ongoing Readify Industrial Strength Series, Applied Windows Workflow Foundation. To get the detail and to enrol visit http://www.readify...

After finally getting around to setting up VMWare Workstation with a BizTalk 2006 R2 Beta2 + BizTalk RFID, I did several experiences with the Phigets RFID reader and the Phidgets DSPI . Two notes about the setup of the DSPI: first, do it manually , following...

August really is event month, with 7 events planned that our team are involved in! So what's on the calendar? 1. Tech.Ed, if you are not going to make it to the event this year I am going to be tasked with providing vidcasts throughout the event so that...

I completed my first 64-bit installation of BizTalk last week and thought it would be beneficial to post a few notes about the experience as there doesn’t appear to be all that much out there on the interweb. Architecture BizTalk supports both 32...

I've been tweaking the PipelineTesting API further as I use it and write the unit tests for it. Here are some of the improvements I've made on the pipeline creation syntax: The NewReceive()/NewSend() methods were renamed to just Receive() and Send(),...