May, 2011

The number of open source releases from the Tellago team keeps growing! At Tellago , we like to dedicate part of our time to work of fun projects that we consider could be a relevant open source complements to existing Microsoft technologies. You can...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

After some research, I found some old Visio icons for BizTalk Server, posted by Thiago Almeida. However, they don’t work very well, especially when I tried to resize the shape (icon quality and text size). So I tried, based on existing ones, create new and improve the existing ones. The result is 11 shapes that [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

During the making of BizTalk 360 we learned so many lessons. But we didn't have enough time to blog about each and every interesting challenge we faced. But now we are in the final stages of the product and we got bit of time to write about anything we encounter. There is also a plan to reveal the whole story behind the making of BizTalk 360 from inception to delivery. After we released the CTP version of BizTalk 360 , few users on Windows 2008 complaint about the installer pre-validation checks...

For BizTalk 360 we use several virtual machines with various OS/BizTalk Server combinations for functional testing purpose. One of the major issue we faced recently was around copying the newly created .msi files from our build machine to the test VM. The copying speed was not even close to acceptable level. It will be in the region of 15KB/sec or less and it completely unreliable, gets disconnected in the middle. After searching through various solutions and trying various combination, this KB article...

If you get the following error when configuring BAM tools for BizTalk 2010: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Transformation Services (DTS) for BAM Archiving is not installed on the local machine. Please install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. (Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.CfgExtHelper.ToolsHelper) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp?ProdName=Microsoft+BizTalk+Server+2009&ProdVer=3.8.368.0&EvtSrc=Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.CfgExtHelper.ToolsHelper&EvtID=error_DTS2008Archive...

If you get the following error when configuring BAM tools for BizTalk 2010: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Transformation Services (DTS) for BAM Archiving is not installed on the local machine. Please install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. (Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.CfgExtHelper.ToolsHelper) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp?ProdName=Microsoft+BizTalk+Server+2009&ProdVer=3.8.368.0&EvtSrc=Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.CfgExtHelper.ToolsHelper&EvtID=error_DTS2008Archive...

I’ve had several situation with large solutions in VS2010 where assemblies get locked and references need to be constantly fixed, failing compilations. I would get errors when copying the DLL’s from the OBJ into the BIN folders, or even copying a schema assembly into the bin folder of the maps project which uses it. One “detail” (or not) was that the BizTalk and C# projects in the solution where upgraded from previous versions (BTS2004). Using SysInternal’s Handle.exe tool, I found it was Devenv...

Next month I will attend the BizTalk User Group Sweden event: Top 10 Things to Know When Integrating with Line of Business Systems . Kent Weare and Richard Seroter will be coming to talk about Integrating with Line of Business Systems. They have written a book together with Thiago Almeida, Sergei Moukhnitski and Carl Darski called: Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Integrating with Line of Business Systems . In session packed with demoes they will walk through numerous key principles to follow when doing system...

In the past I publish an article about “An unhandled exception (‘<System.StackOverflowException>’) occurred in BTSNTSvc.exe” with the promise that I would explain in detail how I was able to debug the .NET stack using the Microsoft Symbol Server to obtain debug symbol files, and now is the time . Step 1: Prepare the environment for [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Introduction Over the past couple of days I have been doing some diagnostics with a partner to setup SSO over a SAML HTTP POST using ADFS. The partner is using the SAML ComponentSpace component. An important part of the diagnostics has been collecting the HTTP POST trace and sending this to the partner for diagnostics. This [...] Blog Post by: clineer

It has been a while ago I did a series of posts on monitoring tools for BizTalk solutions. Back then I discussed the following tools: BizMon now named Integration Platform Monitor (IPM); Minotaur currently it’s second release; Frends Helium . And now there is a new tool made by Saravana Kumar , who I met last MVP summit in person, called BizTalk360 . During bus ride from summit back to hotel he demoed me this monitoring tool and I was impressed by functionality and look and feel. Finally there is...

The content from the BizTalk training course from Microsoft has now been publically released. You can download this video content and the VMs for learning BizTalk 2010 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=38c2ccfc-510c-4627-a33c-95e9d19f3478. Enjoy! Blog Post by: clineer

Last week I presented two sessions at Microsoft Teched USA. This year my sessions were focus on Real World Windows Workflow Foundation and WCF Patterns. Do I like challenges or what? ;) Well, both sessions received were jammed packed and received an amazing...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

All, If in case you haven't noticed Kevin Smith has released BizUnit 4.0 yesterday. Look like Kevin was hard at work during the weekend. It's a stable release after an alpha and beta phase. Go get it at http://bizunit.codeplex.com/releases/view/66850 BizUnit 4.0 introduced some fundamental changes around writing coded tests and XML tests. XML tests are now based on XAML. Nandri! Saravana

Thanks to everyone attending my TechEd session on Thursday. You can find the scripts I was running here (sorry I didn’t put them up earlier). Let me know if you have any trouble. If you didn’t attend, you can view the session online here . Good luck //Mikael Blog Post by: wmmihaa

I know I am late (probably will be the last) in taking BizTalk 2006 R2 (70-241) exam (Released in October 2009) and will be now retired on June 30 2011 with BizTalk 2006 (70-235) which I passed in June 2008. So I am heads up with BizTalk 2010 (70-595) exam which just released on March [...] Blog Post by: Abdul Rafay

A little while back I did a blog post that showed how to query and create Dynamics CRM 2011 records from BizTalk Server.  This post will demonstrate how to handle more complex scenarios including creating fields that use option sets (list of values) or entity references (fields that point to another record). To start with, [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

One of the strengths of BizTalk 360 is its fine grained authorization module. It allows administrators to set fine grained authorization policy to users. The below screen shots shows the various areas you can either grant or deny access to the user profiles. As soon as the user login, he can check his authorization level right on the home dashboard. In this article, we will take a look at how a super user can restrict an user to access only selected applications in the environment. In our test environment...

As a continuation of my Keyed Cumulative Sum post , where I did a key based summation using an xslt call template in a BizTalk map I got two main points of feedback worth repeating and showing. Questions If I use Sum on a decimal number it gives me all sort of weird decimals in the Sum although it shouldn’t; ie a sum of 1.1 and 1.1 could result in 2.199999999999. How do I solve that? What if I am in Sweden (or Germany or some other country) and I want to use a comma (,) as a decimal separator instead...

Thanks to everyone attending my session on integration with Office365 and on-prem applications. All demos can be downloaded from here: http://blogical.se/files/folders/downloads/entry25152.aspx I recommended you to start downloading the AppFabric SDK CTP, in which you’ll find the ClientAccessPolicyPublisher sample I was running in the last sample: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d89640fc-c552-446e-aead-b1e0d940f31b Good luck and let me know if you need any additional help...