September, 2007

I’ve written about the ESB concept before and what I think an ESB architecture is. In the posts comments there were some discussion about if BizTalk is an ESB or not. And if not - why not? I think this article...

I’ve written about the ESB concept before and what I think an ESB architecture is. In the posts comments there were some discussion about if BizTalk is an ESB or not. And if not - why not? I think this article...

The good thing is - this should take you days and not weeks or months! Brilliant.....absolutely brilliant. It's not all about reading and writing tags and watching the tracking of......to me RFID Services is all about what do you do with it next? From...

Check out this new website that contains some references to Microsoft’s MDM strategy including the Product Roadmap ....( read more )

Hands up who's feeling like a second class citizen? R2 launched weeks ago. Where's the version I can sink my teeth into?? The 120 day Trial Edition is so yesterday....so what's cooking....??? The MSDN Developer edition will be available on/from Wed 26th...

Watch this space for live pictures and commentary from the HALO3 Launch Party in Dallas, TX. Updates will begin shortly after 6pm Central Time Today, and will continue through Midnight. Phil Wheat talks about CodeToLive.com the new Channel 9 show for...

Take a trip to http://silverlight.net and you will see This is testament to the work that Jay and Niall have done but also the strength of the All Blacks brand (especially during a world cup). I worked with the guys to choose whether to convert a WPF...

In following up to this entry : restarting the Host Instance does not automatically restart the HIPAA EDI service, you have to manually have to go into the services and restart this service to clear up. I was under the impression that the Host Instance...

Well,after 3 years here its time to say goodbye to DNJ. Im moving to Wordpress and the new link is http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com I've had some great conversations here but im getting rather tied down by the poor editing facilities etc as i've said...

So its been a long absence from the blog world. Havent had much to write from a Biztalk perspective as i was only involved in the analysis and design phase for a new project that is now underway. But the other reason, definitely more important, is my...

A blow by blow account (in pictures) of the launch in Taiwan - kudos to the entire MS Taiwan organization for putting together a great event. Enjoy :) Cheers! Anush Snap-shots from Taiwan: Time 9:30 Opening Show Taiko御鼓坊 9:30 – 9:45 Opening speech Davis...

I have had this recurring conversation with customers and partners. Clustering is not a simple concept, and neither is BizTalk. If you put them together you seem to have a perfect storm. There's lots of confusion, which I hope to be able to dispel...

I have had this recurring conversation with customers and partners. Clustering is not a simple concept, and neither is BizTalk. If you put them together you seem to have a perfect storm. There's lots of confusion, which I hope to be able to dispel with...

To identify performance issues in a BizTalk solution, you should rely on the performance counters that BizTalk Server uses. All the BizTalk performance counters should be added to the registry when you run the configuration wizard. If the registry keys...

" The best reason to blog something is so that you can Google your own brain. " -- Poorly paraphrased Scott Hanselman, yet so very true. In that spirit, today I'm posting a reminder of a very useful trick for promoting properties out of Orchestrations...

If you’ve been in the BizTalk world long enough, you’ve probably heard that you can securely store name/value pairs in the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) database. However, I’ve never been thrilled with the mechanism for inserting and...

As the saying goes, there’s always a first time, and this blog entry is a first for me. My name is Thiago Almeida, I work for one of New Zealand’s largest IT companies as one of their senior integration specialists using Microsoft technologies...

A whirlwind (and extremely exciting!) 2 weeks it has been as we launch BizTalk server RFID world-wide and I wanted to share with you the excitement and the rich, robust RFID solutions (from the Enterprise to the SMB) that are being enabled world-wide...

In transit with a little time to spare I thought I'd share some thoughts around an area that is set to boom in the near future - 'Business Activity Monitoring' I know you must be thinking - What? why? who....? what's Mick on about. Let's have a quick...

I had a little time this week and thought I'd write a quick stsadm extension to enumerate and set index ranking parameters, when querying MOSS indexes. My main motivation was so you could change the ranking order of XLS files over PPT files etc. There...