June, 2012

This week I attended TechEd Europe in Amsterdam . Accompanying me was Mikael Sand , a BizTalk professional from Sweden . I have met Mikael a couple times before and we always have some good discussions over BizTalk, beer, politics and sports. This time I have asked him some questions for the BizTalk Community Series and here is his story. Mikael Sand , a 30-something integration architect specializing on the Microsoft stack. He lives just south of Stockholm with his wife Catarina and 4-year old son...

This blog post is about how you create a REST data store in EPiServer 7 Preview. The new REST data store in EPiServer 7 Preview The new REST data store in EPiServer 7 Preview allows you much like... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

Following my previous post here’s another small contribution: Item Template for Visual Studio 2010: Custom BizTalk Functoid. The New Functoid Class item template for Visual Studio 2010 allows you to create new Functoids for BizTalk Server 2010 without having to code the entire class and therefore allowing you to focus on what really matters, the [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I’m working with a custom WCF adapter, and now we get some issue when pipeline failed validation : here is the MSDN explanation to handle it For a receive location, you can configure one of two error handling options under the Error Handling section on the Messages tab in the Transport Properties dialog box. If [...] Blog Post by: Jeremy Ronk

This blog post is about architectural guidelines for EPiServer CMS and enterprise architecture – mainly integrations patterns. Background When attending EPiServer Partner days 2012 there was a... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

We have a 5 day BizTalk Server 2010 Developer course scheduled for the 13th – 17th of August in Melbourne. The BizTalk Server 2010 Developer Training is an update version of the existing BizTalk training that now includes WCF send and receive adapter, a BizTalk Patterns module (correlation, sequential convoy and parallel convoy) and optional EDI components. The course is targeted at beginning BizTalk developer or developers that want to bring their skills up to 2010. Any question or discuss your...

Are you planning on attending Microsoft’s WPC in Toronto starting on July 9th? If so, we would like to schedule a time to meet and discuss our partnership. Let’s schedule a time to meet at the connect tables. QuickLearn is sponsoring a breakfast to thank our partners on Thursday, July 12th at 7:00AM prior to the keynote. The location has yet to be determined, depending on the number of RSVPs. However, we will make sure it is close to the convention center, has a great breakfast, and serves mimosas...

I have just come out a frustration moment with BizTalk where it was behaving differently when compared to a similar environment. I have a retry pattern in one of my orchestrations and a suspend shape within the catch block. See screenshot below: One would hope that when the administrator resubmits the suspended message, it would [...] Blog Post by: DipeshA

Recently when deploying an application out to IIS we had the need to deploy a sub application within the same domain.  Essentially, what we were trying to do was make the sub application an extension of the parent application, but live in separate app pools and the code base would be kept separate as well. (ie: [...] Blog Post by: Karl Schwirz

In the last months I have been working on some personal projects that are finally gaining life. One of them, I’ve already had the pleasure to announce here on my blog: New version of BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter is now available on CodePlex. And this is my last one! BizTalk Multi-part Message Attachments Zipper Pipeline [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Original Article: http://blog.biztalk360.com , Cross posted. Note: This capability is added to our next release of BizTalk360 v5.0 due in 6 weeks time. One of the design goals for BizTalk360 is to abstract the complexities of some of the hard core concepts in BizTalk Server. We wanted BizTalk environments to be managed, operated and administered by someone who got very basic BizTalk knowledge, not a real BizTalk expert. In our experience only very few companies have dedicated BizTalk administrators...

The presenter, Augusto Valdez , started by stating something to get everyone in a good mode, as we all know that WP is a very good product but it still lacks in sales. They did their own research  by going to the amazon us website and look for what phones people like. The top 3 are WP and out of the top 9, 7 are. Windows Phone 8 will release at the same time as Windows 8. The different teams are working together, collaborating and trying to get the same experience on the phone as well as desktop...

I wonder if Scott Gu can sing? If so he has a lovely basso. There was very little news to me in this session as I am a frequent attender of the Swedish Azure User Group , however a little repetition might improve my knowledge. There are a couple of things that still amazes me when it comes to Azure. the first one is the 99.95% monthly SLA. This means that Microsoft guarantees that your servers are up all but about three hours during a 30 day month. The next thing that amazes me is still the cost...

Welkom in Amsterdam! Windows is now big! And when I say big I mean HUGE. They do not only power smaller and smaller devices but larger and larger as well. Some specs for the now Windows Server 2012 (yes they are calling it that so stop calling it Windows Server “8”): You can run 64 nodes in a single cluster, you can use up to 4 TB of memory per server, you can run 4 000 VMs, a single VM can support 1 TB of memory and 64 TB of virtual disk! Given those figures we are very close to seeing the end of...

Great news for BizTalk community! I first spoke about this book in March 27, 2012 here in my blog and once again…. I have 2 copies of the new book (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide to give away, courtesy of PACKT Publishing, and for the first time one of this copies is [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I recently ran into a requirement to both transmit and receive documents using “Plain Old Xml”. The system we were integrating was not able to understand the concept of namespaces in an Xml document, but BizTalk requires them, as messages are determined by the combination of a document’s Namespace and Root Node. The solution was [...] Blog Post by: Brett

I have already relayed this information to so many, and given the links to more, that I though I’d put them up here for easy access. There is much and more to be written about the content, but I’ll settle for this. Information has been available around BizTalk Server 2010 R2 for some time , but it got much more real and saw some things unveiled not previously mentioned or detailed. In short: There is innovation being done with BizTalk The next version of BizTalk is currently named BizTalk Server...

Recently, I presented a webinar “Secure Integration Messaging with BizTalk and Windows Azure Service Bus (formerly known as AppFabric Service Bus). The webinar and slide deck and be viewed here. I’d like to take some time and walk through creating the solution. In this webinar, I demonstrated how to process inbound orders from external trading partners [...] Blog Post by: Stan Kennedy

For a couple of years I have been demoing a simple render farm hosted in Windows Azure using worker roles and the Azure Storage service. At the start of the presentation I deploy an Azure application that uses 16 worker roles to render a 1,500 frame 3D...

In its simplest single machine using default configuration BizTalk Server 2010 comes with a sample of how to use sysprep , that resides in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010\SDK\Samples\Admin\Sysprep folder. It uses an unattended installation answer file that among other things tells windows to run a number of scripts that updates the database, SSO, BAM etc, where references to the machine name exists. Full description of that “sample” is described here . Windows Azure on the...