July, 2012

I spent some time this week researching what would be needed to update some of my Visual Studio 2010 extensions to support Visual Studio 2012. I’ve now managed to do so, and would like to share what I found in case anyone else finds it useful. Warning: This post was written and tested with the [...] Blog Post by: Tomas Restrepo

First of all I'm very humbled, delighted, pleased (much more?) to receive the news yesterday that my MVP (Most Valuable Professional) status is been renewed for 2012. If you are following lot of blogs, then you might have seen this message in few places now. Basically Microsoft got 4 renewal cycles (January, April,  July, October) in a year to bring new MVP's on board and renew the existing ones who contribute to the selected community continuously. Over the years I have heard people...

Welcome to the 41st interview in this longer-than-expected running series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. This month, I’m pleased to snag Paolo Salvatori who is Senior Program Manager on the Business Platform Division Customer Advisory Team (CAT) at Microsoft, an epic blogger, frequent conference speaker, and recognized expert in distributed [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

George Reese of enstratus just wrote a great blog post about VMware’s cloud strategy, but I zeroed in on one of his major sub-points. He mentions that the entrance into the IaaS space by Google and Microsoft signifies that PaaS isn’t getting the mass adoption that was expected. In short, Microsoft and Google moving into [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

This blog post is about elevating the permissions for members of the BizTalk Server Operators group. By executing a SQL Server script, you can easily grant them the rights to view BizTalk message bodies which allows easy debugging or follow up in different scenarios without having to change memberships.

A few days ago, I was using Windows Azure PowserShell cmdlets to create a new virtual machine, and I got an error that didn’t provide the exception details. I requested some help internally and could eventually have additional information on my exception. Here what I did. Il y a quelques jours, j’étais en train d’utiliser les cmdlets PowerShell Windows Azure pour créer une nouvelle machine virtuelle, et j’ai eu une erreur qui ne donnait pas les détails de l’exception. J’ai demandé de l’aide en interne...

Be being recognized by others you gain confidence. Also to some of us it simply feels good :-) Steef-Jan Wiggers ( MVP , author , BizTalker, Dutchman and avid tweeter ) runs a “Meet the community” series on his blog . I am the subject of that last installment . Blog Post by: Mikael Sand

Full title: “ Achieving Enterprise Integration Patterns with Windows Azure Service Bus ”. Or another way to put it: ”What will happen to BizTalk when it gets cloudy”. Well I would say, after the session, that BizTalk had very little o do with this. If you are a BizTalk developer you probably saw how things you do every day can be done in the Service Bus. Basically Clemens showed some of the most common patterns and how they are implemented in the Service bus. For instance splitter/aggregator, content...

This blog post is about how to secure the ASP.NET Web API when implemented together with EPiServer CMS. Background In my blog post Creating a REST data store in EPiServer 7 Preview I stated that... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

This presentation is not present at Channel9 at the moment. That is a shame because this was, in my opinion, the best presentation of the whole conference. The session was presented by Alex Jauch , currently at NetApp but he used to work for Microsoft. Actually he was behind the precursor that became the MCA. I had never even heard about this guy before and I would say that it is a shame. I have now though. The heading for the session seem ominous and deterministic but given my personal experience...

Have you tried or wanted to use the BizTalk logo to customize a banner for your blog, making flyers, brochure or poster for any event and found it difficult or nearly impossible to find a good logo. And when I say good logo, I mean a logo in vector format, because it is the only [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

There are a lot of things I do not know about BizTalk. The list is getting shorter but here is something I found. I was trying to verify a flow within a known environment. Everything else seemed to work apart from this one flow. A technician submitted files to a directory and the file was picked up. However it did not show up on any tracking; neither the basic BizTalk tracking nor our BAM-implementation noticed the file. The files was picked up and I verified that the file was picked up by BizTalk...

Overview FAST Search Server 2010 comes with a web application for executing FQL queries against the FAST index, called QRServer.  One of our clients was having an issue executing FQL queries, only getting data back that was being crawled by the FAST Web Crawler, and none of the SharePoint data being crawled by the FAST Content [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

Recently when deploying a site to IIS I got the following error. I tried several troubleshooting options such as checking the IIS mapping configuration to see if the .aspx pages were an accepted page extension, folder permissions on the deployment folder,  and I knew for a fact that .net was correctly installed on my server. After some [...] Blog Post by: Karl Schwirz

Before I will head to sunny Spain for a nice vacation I will have one more story for you on a hard working BizTalk community member Lex Hegt . He is a former colleague of mine that works for Ordina . Lex is the founder of the recent launched website BizTalk Events . A good initiative as you have a great access point to resources (slides, links, speakers, etc.) from numerous BizTalk events. The site has a calendar that shows, past and upcoming future events. Lex lives in Leidschendam , close to The...

My buddy and partner-in-crime, Adron Hall, built a web application that we at Tier 3 plan on using for our internal/external product catalog. He initially deployed the app (ASP.NET + SQL Server DB) to our IaaS fabric, but wanted to compare THAT experience with the steps to deploy to our PaaS (Web Fabric) instead. So, [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Since June 2012, a preview of Windows Azure Media Services is available. This post provides sample code and execution screenshots of the following scenario: Encoding an MP4 file to Smooth Streaming and Apple HLS in the cloud. Depuis juin 2012, une version bêta de Windows Azure Media Services est disponible. Ce billet fournit un exemple de code et des copies d’écrans pour le scénario suivant: Encodage en nuage d’un fichier MP4 vers du smooth streaming et de l’Apple HLS You may find a lot of good resources...

While browsing for the answer to the question: “How do I add SOAP-headers to a message sent using the WCF-custom or WCF-basicHttp adapter?” I never really found a good, short answer. So I thought I’d give it a go. Setting SOAP headers I assume you know what SOAP-headers are and why you might use them. If not, then back to basics . In my case the client needed BizTalk to send request with the WS-addressing SOAP header called “To”. I needed to know the easiest way to do this and preferably using configuration...

In the last couple of months I’ve been busy participating in several national and international events talking about Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI services, or as we now know: BizTalk as PaaS (BizTalk on the cloud). It all started with the invitation of Nino Crudele to participate at the Overnet BizTalk Innovation Event and speak about [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Overview Ever have to deal with Crawled Properties in PowerShell, or look through FAST Search FFDumper logs and try to figure out what the type numbers mean?  I have found a couple of random blog posts that cover some, but not all of them, and I’ve tried to find a definitive list. I finally came across a [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety