December, 2007

A few months back, I demonstrated how to build a SQL query against the BizTalk databases which returned application-level activity metrics.   Now that the RSSBus Server has moved further along in its release cycle, I went ahead and built a more...

When running the configuration wizard for the HIPAA accelerator, I have come across an occurrence where I get the following error: In looking at the log you will see the following enties Executed SQL statement on database: BizTalkMgmtDb on computer: ...

My article on a custom method for orchestration-based throttling appeared in BizTalk Hotrod Issue 3. Wow – this issue was a long time in coming, but it looks well worth the wait. Looks like a ton of great content once again. If you have any comments...

I had heard of the Imagine Cup in the past, but did not realise it's reach. This from Nick Ellery ( http://blogs.msdn.com/msozacademic ) "Imagine Cup is the world’s premier technology competition for students. Each year, students are provided...

Have you ever received the error "(80) The document is a duplicate. Contact the sender." in the Biztalk HIPAA Adapter?. I've only seen it 1.35 million times. Help is on it's way. After many years of manually changing ISA/IEA control...

I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

In the last few days I finally got around to test and deploy FinalBuilder . This tool is like a DSL for building software applications. With over 600 actions (almost anything you can imagine), it takes just a couple of hours to set up a Visual Studio...

Given that my posts on BizTalk + Oracle integration are consistently my most popular, I thought I’d add another one to the mix. The first BizTalk application that my company deployed required BizTalk to poll an Oracle 8i database.   When...

Lately, I've been spending some time working with SQL Server 2008. There are a lot of innovative features included in the latest CTP on both the DB and BI engines that are worth checking. I plan to keep blogging about it during the next weeks. On...

Hi All, Microsoft has recently released aggregated blog list of many BizTalk Bloggers at BizTalk Blogs. This list contains many blogs from known BizTalk MVPs, MSFT, and Biztalk enthusiasts. However, this list also contains information on .net 3.5, VS...

Sudhir Hasbe recently came on board the RFID team as a Product Manager. In his brief time on the team, Sudhir has been doing a bit of everything from working behind the scenes at EPC Connections, delivering the keynote at RFID Journal Live Europe, putting...

Whoho! I’ll be speaking at Developer Summit 2008. Developer Summit is a conference hosted by Cornerstone, it’s being held in Stockholm between the 9th and 11th of April 2008. I’ll be doing a talk on Master Data Management (MDM) for the...

Microsoft have rounded up all the serious BizTalk Bloggers (MVPs + keen MS guys + Teams) and the Connected Systems Division (CSD Team) within Microsoft and produced a valuable aggregator with all this in one spot. Just have a look at the bloggers that...

Stephen Thomas hit me up to write an article for his newsletter (if you aren't automatically getting it, you should sign up for it here ). I wrote about how to automatically uninstall a BAM definition as part of the MSI uninstall. You can read about...

As you've undoubtedly noticed, I've begun to do more video as part of the blog over the last several weeks. As part of this experiment, I've started recording interviews with several people I've met along my travels. This series will be...

It’s been just about a year since I left Microsoft to take my current job, and after some success in my initial role, I’m switching teams and responsibilities. I was brought into this company to help establish our BizTalk practice.  After...

For HIPAA documents with equivalent subloops and/or equivalent segments (such as 837 claim documents) the EDI engine in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 would incorrectly generate validation errors when these loops and/or segments were not in the same order as...

I run this blog on a virtual Gentoo Linux server and during some routines updates the other night I managed to balk the environment, so much so that I needed to reimage the machine and start again from scratch. Its taken me a while to get back up and...

If you are installing the HL7 accelerator on a 64 bit development environment, make sure that you install both BizTalk 2006 R2 and the HL7 components in the \Program Files (x86)\ folder. If you don't the HL7 projects (BTAHL72X Common, ...) will not...

We have just launched this week the BizTalks Blogs site. This is a blog aggregator bringing the most recent blog posts of Microsoft internal & external bloggers about BizTalk and CSD technologies to one place. Check it out on BizTalkBlogs.com . Regards...