March, 2011

I received this message in BizTalk 2006 R2 when transmitting an AS2 message. The fix was to disable the “Enable chunked encoding” on the HTTP send port configuration.

In previous post I explained how call stored procedure using WCF-SQL Adapter from BizTalk. I now want to do same thing, but instead of calling a stored-procedure in SQL Server I will call a stored procedure in SQL-Azure. If you want to do you will need a Windows Azure Account . If you do than you can sign in through Azure Management Portal and if you do not have SQL Azure database you can go database in portal and click Create a new SQL Database . You will then go through set of steps (e.g. wizard...

The project that I am on ran into a critical and somewhat embarrassing situation this past week.  As we moved from a single node project environment into a multi-node test environment we discovered that the Dynamics 4.0 Adapter cannot be installed on multiple BizTalk Servers in the same group.  Yes – you read that correctly.  I have never heard of this kind of limitation and struggle with the idea the adapter was actually made available without this feature.  You can read more...

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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...

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...

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...

Microsoft StreamInsight is a powerful tool for event stream processing and monitoring complex events. To be sure, StreamInsight is not designed to be a message routing engine. It’s primarily a foundation for real-time business intelligence where events...

BizTalk is a great tool but sometimes the output is a little unreadable because of the number of namespaces in a document. This post is related to a previous post where I had to import a zillion schemas . Once I had those schema's imported I could...( read more )

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

  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...

We are in the process of migrating some of our existing stuff from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2010. As part of the process I was prototyping a web service call with some complex data models using WCF-basicHttp adapter. I was consistently getting the following error message despite my various attempts like restarting host instances, redeploying the whole solution, uninstalling and installing assembly into GAC, etc xlang/s engine event log entry: Uncaught exception (see the 'inner exception' below...

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...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Or just CRM) has recently upgraded from version 4.0 to version 2011. For an overview of Microsoft Dynamics CRM head here: http://crm.dynamics.com. With this new release there have been many improvements to the system. One of the...

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...

This article presents a workable solution for consuming ReSTful services using BizTalk Server 2010.

A natural follow up to my BizTalk 2010: Calling Dynamics CRM 4.0 Web Services post is one that deals with the Exceptions, or Faults,  that these Web Services may return.  When using the CRM 4.0 Adapter, the adapter would take care of handling SOAP exceptions and bundling them up into a CRM Response message that had a Return Code and Error Nodes.  Whether your operation was successful or not, you could always expect the same type of response message from CRM. <ns0:Response xmlns...

I recently participated with our MCS Canada team on a large BizTalk 2009 and CRM 4.0 integration project. I gained a ton of experience about CRM integration from that project and I thought I’d speak about it at our semi-annual TechReady internal conference...

Have you played with OData much yet? The OData protocol allows you to interact with data resources through a RESTful API. But what if you want to securely expose that OData feed out to external parties? In this post, I’ll show you the very simple steps for exposing an OData feed through Windows Azure AppFabric. [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

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