January, 2013

BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 extends the capabilities of BizTalk Server for health care providers. Health Level 7 (HL7) is an industry-standard application protocol for electronic data exchange of information. The Minimal Lower Layer Protocol (MLLP) is the most common mechanism for exchanging the HL7 data. MLLP uses the TCP/IP protocol to transfer the data. MLLP delimiters are used to recognize the start and the end of message. In BizTalk are often different Receive Ports used for each message type...

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

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

After talking about Windows Azure Service Bus EAI EDI Labs or Windows Azure BizTalk Services over the 11 months all over around Europe I decided that my last session was last Wednesday, 16 January in BizTalk Summit 2013 in London and I will only return to this topic when a new release is published with [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

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

Recently at the BizTalk Summit in London I was asked a question about Message Archiving from BizTalk and one of the most common solutions to this is the Message Archiving Pipeline Component which was written by my old friend Nick Heppleson. After the...

The BizTalk Summit 2013 in London was a huge success . Saravana Kumar from BizTalk360 did an outstanding job organizing this event with Microsoft. Over a 140 attendees, more than 70 different companies from 15 different countries (UK, Ireland, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway, India). Including the speakers there were 10 Microsoft Integration MVPs present. On the Q&A panel there was Jon Fancey, Michael Stephenson and Charles...

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...

When I started blogging a year ago I had no idea how much it would help me progress my own learning, and how rewarding a hobby I was going to gain. If not for the feedback and interest in my blog posts I might not have been quite so motivated to keep it up. As a big thank [...] Blog Post by: Johann

One of our customers has started an on a project to upgrade their DB2 version 9.1 database running on Solaris to DB2 version 10.01 running on Linux. We currently use BizTalk DB2 adapters to get and save data to the 9.1 version of the database using BizTalk 2010. I was asked to make sure that [...] Blog Post by: mbrimble

The 1st of the BizTalk Saturday – BizTalk 2013 Hands on Days has been scheduled for Auckland, NZ on the 9th of Feb 2013, thanks to the hard work of Nikolai Blackie, Principle Architect Adaptiv Integration . To register for the event, go to http://akl-bts2013-handson.eventbrite.co.nz/# Information on the rest of the event around Australia and NZ will be coming out shortly, if you are interested in the event in your city, and you have not filled out the survey, please fill out the survey - http://www...

The C# compiler is a pretty good thing, but it has limitations. One limitation that has given me a headache this evening is its inability to guard against cycles in structs. As I learn to think and programme in a more functional style, I find that I am...

While getting my BizTalk SWIFT environment prepared on BizTalk, I decided to test the waters by running through the Tutorial – big trouble in little Sydney resulted. While the tutorial is comprehensive, it’s written for previous versions of the SWIFT accelerator so there’s the few paths (BREConfigurator.exe.config) that need correcting for some of the SDK tools. Which I can live with as their part of the SDK and this isn’t quite baked BizTalk 2013 yet. The part where I hit trouble is that during...

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...

I recently ran into a situation where I had “inherited” a laptop from a previous developer on a project. This laptop was on the customer’s domain, and had been configured for source control using Team Foundation Services. A problem arose after logging in using my own credentials, and attempting to map the TFS root (“$/”) [...] Blog Post by: Brett

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...

If you are a UX designer, you have undoubtedly been at a client gathering requirements when they say the magic words, “There are some users who will want to do that, but they’re only a couple of people.” This sends your internal monologue into a quizzical frenzy: How many is a couple? Are we not going [...] Blog Post by: Matt Donahue

In this series of blog posts, I’m looking at how well some leading cloud providers have embedded their management tools within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In the first post of the series, I walked through the Windows Azure management capabilities in Visual Studio 2012. This evaluation looks at the completeness of coverage for browsing, [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

About a month ago I announced the release of the beta installer for the BRE Pipeline Framework. Since then I have been hard at work trying to get the framework up to scratch with the goal towards starting to use it on new projects, and at the very least to use it to make POCs [...] Blog Post by: Johann

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...