July, 2012

Overview The following error was received when attempting to deploy a .NET BCS Connectivity Assembly to our SharePoint 2010 Farm: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: The default web application could not be determined. Set the SiteUrl property in feature *Model Name*_Feature1 to the URL of the desired site and retry activation. [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

Overview While investigating how to create and deploy custom .NET BCS Connectivity Assemblies, I came across a ton of good links that helped out with some specific issues, and I wanted to share them. Clearing BCS Service Application Database The following link describes a method of clearing out the BCS database in order to redeploy BCS custom assemblies [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

Donnie Berkholz of the analysis firm RedMonk recently posted an article about observing tech trends by monitoring book sales. He saw a resurgence of interest in Java, a slowdown of interest in Microsoft languages (except PowerShell), upward movement in Python, and declining interesting in SQL. While on Twitter the other day, I was looking at [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Nothing quite beats a totally scripted BizTalk installation. It might not be a one click install (unless you’re using advanced tools such as the BizTalk Deployment framework) seeing as there are quite a few screens to get through in the BizTalk msi import/install wizards, but you sure can make it a brainless task. Some common [...] Blog Post by: Johann

Yesterday, Microsoft kicked out the first public beta of the Service Bus for Windows software. You can use this to install and maintain Service Bus queues and topics in your own data center (or laptop!). See my InfoQ article for a bit more info. I thought I’d take a stab at installing this software on [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Have you ever wanted to evaluate the performance of your Biztalk installation? Evaluating your performance could be done by analyzing quite some counters in the performance monitor of Windows. Or maybe by using the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool . However I just found a recently released tool to benchmark your biztalk environments. The tool is called blogical and can be found on codeplexe here . How it works: After the user has started the application and specified the BizTalk Group, the...

In this article we are going to look at 10 tips you can perform on your BizTalk environment with less effort and maximize your performance.  Often times it may be too late to impose some best practices on your BizTalk solutions, things like orchestration best practices like reducing number of persistence points, Pipeline best practices [...] Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Crm looking good Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Http://office.com/preview After a bit of hunting on this site I found the x64 bit version under ‘Install Options’ As part of the installation I get: In which during this time my account is being provision in the ‘MS Cloud’ Almost there…. Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Thanks to all participants, there were many participants, in a total of 20 different countries, which may demonstrate the good acceptance of this new book by the BizTalk community. But only two could be the winners, so congratulations to: Lisa Edwards from USA, winner of the book (printed copy) And Jonathan Maes from Belgium, winner [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

This post describes the details of the recently announced Service Bus for Windows Server beta. Codit has been part of the TAP program for this technology and this blog post describes the new features, concepts and provides some code samples.

If you are looking at getting BT 2010 certified, there is just the book out there that you will need to prepare for the exam 70-595. Authors include Johan Hedberg, Kent Weare & Morten La Cour. The book covers everything from BizTalk basics to WCF to RFID to BAM. Having said that, the book is [...] Blog Post by: DipeshA

Keywords: SharePoint 2010, FAST for SharePoint, Core Results Web Part, customize search results, Created By Managed Property, Author crawled property Task: Display the “Created By” author name on the search results page. Also, modify the “Author” default refiner to display the “Created By” author name. Problem: On a recent project,  I was trying to resolve a problem with [...] Blog Post by: kadasani

We hope we got all the version details correctly, if in case we messed up something please let us know. -BizTalk360 Team Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Hello! Over the last months I’ve done a lot of installations of the MQSC adapter for IBM WebSphere MQ. The reason for me writing this blogpost is the fact that many have some issues when Installing the adapter, in many cases there may be numerous reasons why it’s not working completely. installation guide So in order to Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

In my last two posts I showed two possible errors, and their respective solutions, that can happen when we are validating dummy EDI message, provided by our partners, against the schema using Visual Studio, but these errors could also happen in runtime. In this post I will show you one common error when we are [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

In my previous post , we discussed some of the reasons why BizTalk and SignalR may complement themselves in some situations.  I will now walk through the implementation of this OMS scenario. I am going to create a Call Taker Web application that will communicate with a BizTalk exposed WCF service. Once BizTalk receives the request message, we will send a response acknowledgement message back to the Call Taker Web application. BizTalk will then communicate with OMS system.  “In real life...

Ive just added a new section to the BizTalk area of the technet wiki containing all of the various content about BDD and BizTalk http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12322.behaviour-driven-development-with-biztalk.aspxv

For those unfamiliar with BizTalk, it is Microsoft’s premiere Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) platform.  It is used to integrate disparate systems over a variety of protocols using a durable pub-sub mechanism. SignalR does have some similarities to BizTalk in that it is a messaging system that also supports the notion of pub-sub.  However, SignalR’s sweet spot is really lightweight messaging across Web clients.  SignalR itself is a scalable, asynchronous .Net library authored...

I assume you already know how to promote properties when sending a message from an orchestration to the messagebox. This can of course be achieved by initializing a correlation set with containing all context properties you like to promote. But that 's not why I'm posting this blog. If you need more info on how to promote properties from an orchestration I'll refer you to this blog . Problem The problem is when you try to do this from a send shape inside a loop, you'll get an error...