January, 2013

What is BizTalk Application Monitoring? When you have set of application running in your BizTalk environment, you will be interested to keep an eye of the  health of the application(s). The health of applications is directly connected to various artifacts that’s running inside the application like Receive Locations health Send Ports health Orchestrations health in [...] The post Difference between Simple and Advanced BizTalk Application monitoring in BizTalk360 appeared first on BizTalk360...

QuickLearn is pleased to announce the availability of two hands-on labs that you can run from within your BizTalk Server 2013 Beta virtual machines running on Windows Azure. These labs, originally presented at the BizTalk Summit in December, will provide an early look at the new features coming with the BizTalk Server 2013 release, while demonstrating live integration with the Salesforce.com online CRM system. To complete either of the activities, follow the instructions below: Lab #1: Integrating...

The Delay activity in Workflow Foundation can be used in many scenarios, but the most likely use is in a composite operation, where you want the execution to wait for a response and cast a failure if the response isn't received in proper time. The Delay activity has just one parameter, which is call Duration. It expects a Timespan variable or expression. If you want the same duration in every place it would be wise to create a variable to hold the value and use it at the right spots or a better...

We would like to congratulate Nicholas Hauenstein, the most recent addition to the Visual Studio ALM Rangers! Nick was nominated for his subject matter expertise and contribution to the ALM community. Nick is currently working on study materials for: Exam 70-496: Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Exam 70-497: Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Exam 70-498: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 ALM More information on these study materials will be announced...

I just finished reading the fascinating new mini-eBook “The New Kingmakers” from Redmonk co-founder Stephen O’Grady. This book represents a more in-depth analysis of a premise put forth by O’Grady a couple years back: developers are the single most important constituency in technology. O’Grady doubles-down on that claim here, and while I think he proves [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Lately I came across a weird exception, while building a BizTalk project with Team Foundation Server. Let’s have a look.

To follow on from my preview post about Working with Azure Virtual Network Preview , I have continued to work with the Azure Virtual Network Preview this post is about setting up the VPN with my new ADSL2 router (from this post New Internet Hardware for Home ). Currently the only supported hardware devices are from Cisco and Juniper, but using the following 2 blog posts as guides I was able to get the VPN working with my new Draytek 2830. Windows Azure Virtual Network VPN with TMG 2010 Create a Virtual...

Today while I was playing with BizTalk Server 2006, yes I know very old stuff, but sometimes is needed… and for those who are accustomed to developer BizTalk solutions knows that we need to sign the project with a strong name assembly key file before we deploy them… nothing new. The funniest part came when [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

One of my younger colleagues was to using a custom pipeline to resolve a party and found that it gave the following permissions error; A message received by adapter “FILE” on receive location “RetailDailyUpload_FILE” with URI “D:\Pickup\RetailOrders\*.dat” is suspended. Error details: There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: “BT.RetailDailyUpload.Pipelines.Rcv_RetailDailyUpload, BT.RetailDailyUpload.Pipelines, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,...

If you are interested in attending a BizTalk Saturday – BizTalk Server 2013 Hands on Day in Australia or New Zealand (sorry, please use other and specify Auckland or Wellington), please fill out the survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PXGYNRP More ...

Over the holidays I have given my home Infrastructure a serious upgrade, I have replaced my ADSL router and added a new Wireless Access Point to the network. I replaced my old faithful Draytek 2800 ADSL router with a new Draytek 2830 Triple-WAN ADSL2+ Router with 4-port Gigabit LAN Switch , the upgrade now gives me a couple of features that I have been waiting for: IPv6 support, I can now use the native 'dual-stack' IPv6 that is part of my Internode connection Azure Virtual Network VPN (router...

Hi folks, I came across a very handy little tip the other day that works with *any* set of Batch Commands that you want to run sequentially. Now before you jump out and tell me “Mick, what are you doing?! Powershell is where it’s at!”….yes yes I know. I’ve half the guys at the office telling me that too. So onto the goodness on this one: The key is <cmd> && <cmd> e.g. net stop “Print Spooler” && net start “Print Spooler” Blog Post by: Mick Badran

We are very proud to be the sole partner organising this event BizTalk Summit 2013, London along with help of Microsoft UK and the BizTalk product group back in Redmond. This is the biggest BizTalk event conducted in Europe with nearly 140 attendees, 74 different companies from 15 different countries (UK, Ireland, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, [...] The post Our experience organising BizTalk Summit London – 2013 appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Last week I have encountered an unusual situation in my BizTalk Server 2010 production environment… when I was trying to restart BizTalk Host Instance after publishing a small change in one of my applications, one of the host instances got stuck in “Stop pending” state. The major problem of this stage is that we cannot [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

This year I like to continue with the BizTalk Community Series . In January 2012 I started with Tord G. Nordahl , who recently was awarded Microsoft Integration MVP . He was very committed to the BizTalk community for quite a while and proven to be a great contributor to the community. I ended with 25th story on my colleague Sander Nefs . The story today will be on Mark Brimble a Principle Integration Architect since 2007 for Datacom in Auckland , New Zealand (NZ). This company has the largest group...

In Workflow Foundation 4.5 in the .Net Framework 4.5 it is possible to use C# as your expression lanugage, but how do you change it for a workflow that has been upgraded from .Net Framework 4.0? There are two ways. One is to create a new workflow in your project (this assumes that your project is based on the C# project template) and copy the shapes/recreate over to the new workflow and afterwards you have to change each expression to the C# language. Another option is to open the file in XML mode...

The solution to remove a send port from a party when BizTalk is throwing a Microsoft SQL exception message. In some ways BizTalk is not able to handle nice exception handling messages. This topic includes troubleshooting of the BizTalk exception and providing a solution to the problem.

With BizTalk Server 2010 the mapper got updated to a new version and one of the features was the possibility to use the mapper in Workflow Foundation. What happens if you try to use the mapper in Visual Studio 2012? In Visual Studio 2012 there are some really nice new features for Workflow Foundation like annotations, C# in expressions and a lot more. Coming from a BizTalk world you might want to use the BizTalk mapper to map between two different types and now that it also is an activity the logical...

For the deployment of BizTalk applications we use a custom made tool within our company. We were curious to have some feedback from the community on the deployment of BizTalk applications. How do you handle the biztalk deployments at your company? Our deployment manager tool is based on the idea to store all used objects in a [...] Blog Post by: Cnext

I thought I’d brain dump a few thoughts after the recent BizTalk summit and how some of the information will help shape solutions with the customers whom I work with. BizTalk On-Premise Traditionally for a Microsoft focused integration team BizTalk was...