February, 2011

[See Sample: Context routing and throttling with orchestration ] Imagine the project where most of the routing happens between orchestrations. I.e. routing is mostly between the MessageBox and orchestration with direct endpoints. Imagine also the most...

The sample demonstrates using orchestration for throttling and using context routing. Usually throttling is implemented on the host level (in BizTalk 2010 we can also using the host instance level throttling). Here is demonstrated the throttling with...

Hey folks, Alan Smith and myself (much more Alan this time :) have brought the series back for another version and another year! Myself and many other Biztalk MVPs and some great BizTalk-ers with fantastic real world experience share their knowledge....

A short post to let the users of the PowerShell provider for BizTalk know we have released a new version. In the previous versions in some circumstances the provider (and PowerShell runtime) crashed when adding a new resource using the new-item cmdlet...

The issue… If you’ve worked with Receive Shape filters in BizTalk Server 2006 R2, you may have found that updating existing filters is sometimes problematic, in that the change isn’t always applied after deploying it. I set out to find out when this issue...

Ideally we should have proper monitoring solution in place for any BizTalk projects. But the reality is always different, even in big enterprises monitoring solutions are not adequate due to various internal political reasons. In this article I'm going to show how you can take advantage of the new Event Viewer functionalities that comes as part of Windows to get some basic monitoring. The new event viewer that comes as part of Windows Vista, 7 and 2008 are fully reengineered with the event tracking...

Over the past months I’ve been reviewing a new BizTalk 2010 book – BizTalk 2010: Integrating Line of Business Systems There’s a high caliber line up of Author’s all busily sharing their knowledge. Kent’s got all the details...

Hi folks, as promised here’s my little slide deck for the presentation given last week. We had a great audience with some very interesting questions. Thanks all that attended as part of the Microsoft Partner Readiness program. Hope you’re enjoying and...

When trying to send a message via the SMTP adapter in BizTalk we have the option of attaching messages as part of Multi-Part Messages.  If the message being attached is too large the message will fail to send.  In our application, we send email...

I would like to thank everyone for attending my presentation this Saturday at the NYC (Winter) Code Camp! I really enjoyed the high level of interest and participation from the attendees. Unfortunately, we only had 75 minutes to talk about Entity Framework...

Windows 7 SP1 was released yesterday and after a 1.9GB download I was ready to install. Or so I thought... Ran the Upgrade from within my version of Windows 7 x64 on my Fujitsu laptop After the installation and upon rebooting several times....the upgrade...

Received news this morning that the book that I have been working on for the past 7 months has now reached “RAW” status.  What is RAW you ask?  RAW stands for “Read As we Write”.  The idea is to get the book, in soft copy format, into the hands of readers early.  The goal is to get early feedback from readers with the possibility of incorporating this feedback before the book is published.  This is a relatively new program from Packt but when it was presented to us we decided...

File compression is nothing new to .NET.  However, in many solutions it requires the developer to establish a file folder which they will write the compressed file to and later read from. This solution cannot work if you want to compress and use...

In this post I would like to show a different way to insert a record inside a SQL Table using a stored-procedure with WCF-SQL Adapter. Last year I wrote a post on WCF-SQL Table Operations, which was/is very useful for a lot BizTalk pro’s. For BizTalk 2010 you can find Adapter Pack Samples through BizTalk Server Development Center. On that page you can find a sample called SQL Adapter –> Using the adapter with BizTalk Server –> Invoking Stored Procedures . If you download this sample you have...

We were seeing this exception on two servers when we tried to access the BAM Portal... after having to reconfigure the BAM Portal and Tools for reasons unrelated to the error: --- Log Name: Application Source: Bam Web Service Date: 2/18/2011 10:24:07...

This is basically a note to myself, as BizTalk person you tend to remotely login to multiple machines frequently. Often time I'll be greeted with the message "Terminal services exceeded the maximum connections". The main reason will be, people tend to login and don't bother to logoff. For me the quickest way to figure out all the logged in user and kick them off is by couple of commands The first one to see all the logged in sessions using the command: qwinsta /server:<<servername>>...

I have been working as a technical reviewer for a book that will be complete in April 2011 called BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration from Packt Publishing. Pre-order is now available for the print form but some of the individual chapters are available now. Please check out this link for more information about [...]

This week on 15th Feb 2011, I gave a talk on London Connected Systems user group titled " Instrument and Diagnose your BizTalk Solution in an efficient way ". The slide deck and the sample download can be found here 1. Presentation 2. Sample Source The talk was mainly focused around the usage of the instrumentation framework released by the CAT team. The key references are: * http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/appfabriccat/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4355 * http://btscatifcontroller...

I saw today that the BizTalk 2010 certification details were posted at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-595&Locale=en-us#tab2. According to the article the exam will be available at the very end of March 2011. I know many people in the BizTalk community have been eager for another BizTalk certification test so the good news for everyone is that Microsoft listened [...]

This week Microsoft is hosting the first edition of their annual TechReady conference. Even though TechReady is an internal conference, Microsoft invited us to present a not one but two sessions about some our recent work. We are particularly proud of...