January, 2013

I’ve seen this happen a couple of times. Where security is not enforced good enough. So I wanted to dedicate a blog post to talk more about this. In most enterprise companies security is important and get a lot of focus. However BizTalk is often left to itself since the structure around it may be [...] Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

One of the cool new features of the Workflow Foundation in the .Net framework 4.5 is the annotations. This gives you the option to at nice comments to your workflows. In the designer you just have to right click your activity and choose the annotations menu item to add, edit or delete annotations. If you upgrade your Visual Studio project from Visual Studio 2010 you can't see these menu options. The problem is that the upgrade wizard doesn't change the target framework, so if you go into...

Most of you are aware of the BizTalk Summit 2013, London event on 16th January. The event was originally called as BizTalk Innovation Day, but after Microsoft BizTalk product group involvement, it’s been renamed to BizTalk Summit 2013, London as part of the European repeat of the recent BizTalk Summit 2012, held at Microsoft Campus [...] The post BizTalk Summit 2013 – London, Additional seats available appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

I tried to install the Cumulative update package 14 for SQL Server 2008 R2. After requesting the update on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2703280 , I got an email containing a link to download the file 449383_intl_x64_zip.exe. After downloading the file an trying to run the self extracting zip file, I got following error: This self-extracting zip file is part of a multidisk zip file. Please insert the last disk of the set. There is no other option than pressing the OK-button.And after pressing the...

I was configuring a new Development environment that consisted of a BizTalk Application Server and a Remote SQL Server. The BizTalk Installation went smoothly but the Configuration did not. I tend to configure SSO service on its own as it can be problematic. There is no point in configuring the remaining databases until a person knows that the SSO database is created successfully. Otherwise, there will be a lot of wasted key strokes. In this particular case I was able to configure the SSODB but as...

Recently, I have been working with a new organization and have been been building some interfaces that communicate with SAP. Over the Christmas break I continued to work on some of these interfaces. On December 31 my interfaces were working just fine. But, on January 1st, I made a few changes and then ran my BizUnit regression tests just to make sure everything was ok. To my surprise, my tests were failing and the issue was related to the following error. It just seemed like too much of a co-incidence...

The year 2013 will start with two events where I will be speaking. First, on January 16nd I’ll be in London during the BizTalk Summit 2013 hosted by Microsoft UK in their headquarters. It is organized by fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Saravana Kumar ( BizTalk360 ) and Microsoft UK. Saravana and I will be joined on stage by Microsoft Integration MVP’s Tord Nordahl , Sandro Pereira and Nino Crudele . My session will be on the new adapters in BizTalk Server 2013 . In this session I will focus on adapters...

In a couple weeks, I’m off to Amsterdam and Gothenburg to speak at a pair of events. First, on January 22nd I’ll be in Amsterdam at an event hosted by middleware service provider ESTREME. There will be a handful of speakers, and I’ll be presenting on the Patterns of Cloud Integration. It should be a [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

When introducting optional records in a Flat File Schema, it's important to think about the Parser Optimization property. In this blog post you find out how easy it is to allow records to be optional, but how easy you can forget the Parser Optimization property...

So all People out there, I’m up to Windows 8 and I love it. I’ve heard a lot of bad experiences but I find it cool to not have the start button, and my daughter can use the computer even easier now. Anyways, I use this computer for work, so I had to install all [...] Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

2012 was an excellent professional and personal year for me, thankfully with lots of work but also extremely funny. I had the chance to meet and become good friend with a few outstanding BizTalk community members and MVP’s, some I had the opportunity to meet during MVP Summit, like Nino Crudele, others I met during [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

In next couple of weeks I like to do a series of blog posts on the new adapters provided in the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2013. In this post I like to demonstrate the WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter . The WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter can be used with BizTalk to send and receive messages from the Service Bus relay endpoints using the BasicHttpRelayBinding . This is a binding that BizTalk can use to configure endpoints which can communicate with ASMX-based Web services and other services that conform...

If you don't want to use a lot of money on service virtualization tools you can create a simple autogenerated WCF facade service that does a little bit of the things the big service virtualization tools does. This gives you the option to hide service between one common service. The services behind this service could be a service from your backend system, a service from your CRM system and it might even be some external services. You could do it manually, but then you would have to update it each...

The success of the product comes to light when people get excited and starts talking about it. Especially when someone like Sandro Pereira who is considered as one of the most influential person in the BizTalk community.  We are really humbled and delighted to see Sandro spent lot of time figuring out the capabilities of [...] The post 7 parts series "BizTalk360 a monitoring and support tool" by Sandro Pereira appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my 45th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technologies” space. This month, we’re talking to Tom Canter who is the Director of Development for consultancy CCI Tec, a Microsoft “Virtual Technology Specialist (V-TS)” for BizTalk Server, and a smart, grizzled middleware guy. He’s seen it all, and I [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

First of all happy new year! In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2012 went. For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2011 . To summarize all my activity bullet wise: I have had multiple speaking engagements in the Netherlands and abroad (Canada, Sweden, Norway) Had a book published the BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook through Packt Publishing Technically review another the (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide Published a white paper on Supportability...

Thanks Microsoft for another wonderful start of New Year. I’m delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2013. For me this is the third time to receive this award and as usual on such occasions, I would like to thank my MVP Lead Cristina Herrero, BizTalk Product Team, Mandi [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program is an annual program awarded by Microsoft for most influential community members in the world. Getting an MVP status in their chosen technology area is a dream for many of the technical professionals. The MVP award is not just restricted to developers, there is no easy way to achieve [...] The post Congratulations to new and renewed Microsoft Integration MVPs (Jan 2013) appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

January 1st is one of 4 dates during the year when Microsoft announce their new and renewed Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). As someone that was awarded on January 1st, it means the year starts off with a regular scan of my emails to see if my community contributions have been sufficient to be re-awarded. Sitting proudly in my Inbox was the much anticipated email confirming that I have once again reached the bar to be an ALM MVP for another year. In addition to my community contributions, I’ve...