March, 2011

In previous post I yesterday I wrote that new BizTalk 2010 exam is out. And you may figure how to prepare as in preparation material nothing is mentioned.Let’s look at what skills are measured. In a nutshell these topics are: Configuring messaging architecture (setup, manage ports, configure adapters, implement messaging solutions); Developing BizTalk Artefacts (building orchestrations, create schema’s, maps and pipelines); Debugging and Exception Handling (debug orchestrations, validate and test...

Short blog post this time. As of now the BizTalk 2010 exam is now available. You can find details on the webpage for this exam 70-595 TS: Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 . One of interesting skills measured are Implementing Extended Capabilities . This deals with RFID, EDI, BAM and BRE. I quoted from the overview: “Candidates should have a solid understanding of fundamental BizTalk concepts around the core messaging engine and building...

After much pushing, and some prodding of the people who look after exams at Microsoft. Several members of the community got involved with Microsoft to create a BizTalk 2010 Exam. It has now been released... have a look here The more interesting thing to note, this exam will be quite different from exams on this topic from previous exams as the community created it, the community they knows in depth about the product. Just look at the main areas: Configuring a Messaging Architecture (20 percent) Developing...

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Microsoft published today the new BIzTalk Server 2010 Certification Exam: Exam 70-595: TS: Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Audience Profile Candidates for this exam typically work as a BizTalk developer in an organization that has a need to integrate multiple disparate systems, applications, and data as well as [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

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I have joined Mexia Consulting ( www.mexia.com.au ) as a Principal Consultant, Mexia is a Brisbane based Microsoft Partner, but I will remain based in Melbourne (and the Qantas lounge, been traveling that much lately) while I establish and grow the Mexia’s team in Victoria Recently I have been a bit split focused between BizTalk and SQL Server with SolidQ so I have decided with the urging of Dean Robertson, CEO of Mexia to come back to my true love, Integration with a primary focus on the full Microsoft...

  So after 5 great years being a technology specialist for connected systems, I've decided to take on a new challenge at Microsoft Canada. I’ve slowly been winding down my BizTalk specific activities for the last month now and as one of my final actions, I wanted to let people know about the upcoming BizTalk 2010 Canadian roadshow and the new BizTalk 2010 Certification. BizTalk Canadian Roadshow 1. The BizTalk team is hosting a roadshow this year in Toronto and Montreal.  We will have...

The series of open source releases from our team at Tellago continues…. The newest addition to the RESTful Services APIs for BizTalk Server is here. Over the last few weeks, my colleagues Uri Katsir and Suresh Girirajan have been working on building an...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Before You Read Microsoft supports various upgrade paths from WSS3.0/MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.  This post will highlight the “attach and upgrade” approach.  Upgrade Steps Run the Pre-Upgrade Check on the SharePoint 2007 Server Execute the following command from the command line on the SharePoint 2007 server hosting the database to be upgraded: stsadm –o preupgradecheck This will scan the [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

I recently installed SharePoint 2010 on my client machine to investigate some of the BCS and Search features for a client project.  SharePoint 2010 now allows installation of the OS on Vista x64 SP1 or higher and Windows 7 x64, which is a major improvement over the remove development nightmare that was MOSS 2007. For instructions [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

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Introduction At work I have been working on helping my company adopt ADFS 2.0 for a Single Sign-On initiative. I have been working on handling a WPF application’s federation with ADFS and needed to use active federation (by definition). I had been following along with Dominick Baier’s blog post at http://www.leastprivilege.com/WIFADFS2AndWCFndashPart5ServiceClientMoreFlexibilityWithWSTrustChannelFactory.aspx. While this post is [...] Blog Post by: clineer

Hi all, the BizTalk team has been busy and now the BizTalk 2010 exam has been officially released. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-595 I’m going to sit it in the next few weeks and get a taste of it. Good luck all and what a great day this is – well done Team! Snippet….. Audience Profile Candidates for this exam typically work as a BizTalk developer in an organization that has a need to integrate multiple disparate systems, applications, and data as well as the need to automate...

Recently I been helping Michael Stephenson on his article about BizTalk RFID and NServiceBus, which is published on Microsoft technet WIKI site, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/biztalk-2010-amp-nservicebus.aspx The article is mainly focused on how you can take advantage of NServiceBus along with BizTalk RFID capabilities on high volume scenarios, where you don't want to waste BizTalk processing power for just routing from A to B. Nandri! Saravana

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In this paper, BizTalk MVP Michael Stephenson discusses using NServiceBus to do multicast message distribution as part of a BizTalk RFID process.

Ive just posted a paper on the technet wiki about BizTalk RFID and NServiceBus used as a publishing component http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/biztalk-2010-amp-nservicebus.aspx

BizTalk Server team is excited to announce the availability of updated schemas and runtime to support HIPAA 5010 Errata in BizTalk Server 2009. The update is available as part of BizTalk Server 2009 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) package. The following 6 transactions are available in the update: Transactions affected by the 5010 Errata Base Version ST03/GS08 Errata Version ST03/GS08 270, 271 Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response 005010X279 005010X279A1 834 Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance...

In a post yesterday I should a way to invoke a stored procedure in SQL Azure using WCF-SQL Adapter. There is another to invoke a stored procedure using AppFabric Connect for Services functionality in BizTalk Server 2010. This new feature feature brings together the capabilities of BizTalk Server and Windows Azure AppFabric thereby enabling enterprises to extend the reach of their on-premise Line of Business (LOB) systems and BizTalk applications to cloud. To be able to bridge the capabilities of...