January, 2013

One day I was given an interesting requirement – I needed to design a report that would render as a delimited text file. My first thought was to make it a report designed to be exported as a CSV, but I soon realized that the specs for this report required that the columns be separated [...] Blog Post by: mbomberger

Like I mention in one of my last posts, I decided to publish all my demos that I have been using in my sessions in BizTalk Innovation Event series. This will be the first demo. This demo is a basic integration scenario: “Event registration” and intends to show some of the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2013/01/30/fail-nokia.aspx I can't say I follow things that closely in the Windows Phone world, but I am aware of the upgrade to Windows phone 7.8. I've been looking forward to this...

Thanks to Steef-Jan for write a profile about me :-) Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges: BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Torben Chrona Christiansen

The year 2013 promises to be a great year for us BizTalk professionals. BizTalk Server 2013 will be released in a few months, the beta is currently available on-premise and in Windows Azure. A few events have taken place already this month like the BizTalk Summits in London, Amsterdam and Stockholm. There will be more events coming this year. A lot of community involvement in 2013. Today’s story

In my previous post I introduced the concept of Customer Power Outages and, at a high level, introduced  how Outage Management Systems work.  The key take away from that blog post is that important, event driven data is passing through BizTalk and there is an opportunity use this information to provide better Customer and Employee engagement through Service Bus Notification Hubs.  Think about, conceptually how different is it from BAM Alerts?  The idea behind BAM Alerts is data...

Once again, Cnext is proud to announce the renewal of the gold partnership with Microsoft, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem. Cnext reached this gold partnership in the category Application Integration. [...] Blog Post by: Cnext

Microsoft Learning used the ALM Summit 3 this week to announce the new “ Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD): Application Lifecycle Management ” certification. The new certification required you to pass the following three exams. 70-486: Administering Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 70-497: Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 70-498: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management QuickLearn’s two TFS instructors have both already...

This week QuickLearn was involved at the third annual Application Lifecycle Management Summit held on the Microsoft Corporate headquarters in Redmond. Nick and I were both involved in delivering content and sharing our TFS knowledge and skills with attendees. Here are the two activities we presented. Pre-conference workshop I delivered a sold-out pre-conference workshop entitled “Managing your application lifecycle with TFS”. The workshop provided attendees with a rapid overview of many of the features...

Torben Chrona Christiansen wrote a very handy blog post last year on how to bulk stop and start EDI batches in BizTalk Server 2009 using SQL queries. These queries can be used to aid in creating proof of concepts, to demonstrate batching in presentations, as a setup step in integration tests, or during deployments. Seeing as [...] Blog Post by: Johann

My dev machine works so slowly, so I decided to clean it. I found a guide to perform it. But don’t do it on production plateform, it won’t be supported Here are few steps to clean up BizTalk Message Box Database. 1. There is a Stored Proc bts_CleanupMsgbox in BizTalkMsgBoxDb Database. By default this stored proc does [...] Blog Post by: Jeremy Ronk

The BizTalk Server 2013 Beta release comes with the SB-Messaging adapter. This adapter allows our on-premise BizTalk environment to integrate seamlessly with the Windows Azure Service Bus queues, topics and subscriptions. Together with my colleague Mathieu, I had a look at these new capabilities.

In my previous post I introduced Service Bus Notifications and explained why you may want to use it when sending Notifications to mobile devices. In this post I want to explore its use in a corporate environment and how introducing this technology can improve customer engagement as well as employee engagement. Use Case Back in the Summer of 2012, I wrote a couple blog posts on BizTalk and SignalR. The idea was that BizTalk could provide real time notifications to on premise users. The notifications...

This past week the Service Bus team at Microsoft rolled out a preview of their latest offering called Service Bus Notification Hubs. For those of those of you who keep an eye open for all things Middleware from Microsoft, you may recognize the code name of the project: Iguazu. You may have even seen Iguazu presented by Clemens Vasters at one of the recent Microsoft conferences/summits. What are Service Bus Notification Hubs? So what are Service Bus Notification Hubs? Probably the simplest way to...

I am presenting a session on BizTalk 2013 and Rest at BizTalk Saturday – BizTalk 2013 Hands on Days – Auckland on February 9th. I was all set to write a summary of this topic but this morning I woke and found that Steef-Jan Wiggers has just written a very good summary entitled  Microsoft offers [...] Blog Post by: mbrimble

I’m delighted to pre-announce that BizTalk innovation Event is coming to Portugal! The event is called “Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day” and will take place in Oporto, Portugal on Thursday 14 March, 2013. This is the first time in Portugal (also on Iberia) that we are conducting a full day event dedicated to Microsoft BizTalk Server. [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Last week I ran into a really interesting issue. When I was running Visual Studio unit tests to validate instances of XML formatted EDIFact messages (see my previous blog post on BizTalk testing for more details on schema testing) I found that my tests just seemed to take forever and timed out with no reason [...] Blog Post by: Johann

I recently hit an issue with the BAM_AN packages executed through a SQL job failing with the following message. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at…. UpdateDataSourceAndGetAnnotation(String cubeName, String asServerName, String asDatabaseName, String ssServername, String ssDatabaseName) The reason was the account under which my SQL jobs were running did not have [...] Blog Post by: DipeshA

We got caught with this error recently when built a new BizTalk server. Every time we tried to browse to the web portal we got a 503 error and the application pool would stop. We could restart the app pool without error. It took us a while to work out the root cause. We checked [...] Blog Post by: mbrimble

On the very first BizTalk project I worked on, refactoring was a really bad word that almost brought our Gantt chart to its knees. As with many agile projects, evolving requirements required changes to schemas, these changes often being major structural changes which broke all the maps they were being used in. Recovering from these [...] Blog Post by: Johann