February, 2013

As much as I am a fan of the Business Rules Engine (BRE) shipped with BizTalk Server there are times when I think it could use some more love from our friends at Microsoft, and never have I felt this more so than during a recent deployment exercise. I was aiming to deploy BRE Policies [...] Blog Post by: Johann

Day #1 has been officially launched for the 6 weeks of Azure Program. Rocky & Christian at Microsoft are busy combining a great community effort with help from myself & Mahesh, Bill Chesnut and others to bring together a great 6 week program about a Journey through Azure (above and beyond technical aspects, but they are also included). Things like: - taking an onpremise solution and converting to Azure. - what your solution may look like in Azure. - what considerations you’ll need to think...

I boarded BA flight BA0049 to Seattle this afternoon for the MVP Global Summit 2013. It’s pretty standard stuff, normal airport security and boarded the flight at 14:30. After about an hour flying we noticed some panic movements between cabin crew. First they all went to a common area for discussion, then they all rushed [...] The post First flight drama after so many years flying appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

We are really excited to announce all the arrangements for Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day is been finalized and the registration process is finally online here: http://obid.devscope.net/ The Event This unique community event will join together the regional specialists in BizTalk Server. During a full day, all participants will have an opportunity to learn and share [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Thanks to everyone who attended my session about building large-scale solutions in Windows Azure. Everything you saw was based on the lessons we learned when building our KidoZen ( www.kidozen.com ) platform. The slide deck I used during the presentation...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

We released the first version of BizTalk360 Windows 8 application back in December 2012 with minimal set of functionalities. We didn’t promote the release and kept it more like our private release informing only the closed customer/MVP community. We been actively working on the project for the past few months now and yesterday we released [...] The post BizTalk360 Windows 8 application is available in the app store appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

While installing BizTalk 2010 in a multi-server configuration (one server for BizTalk, a different server for SQL), I received the following error while attempting to configure the BAM Archive database: Microsoft SQL Server Data Transformation Services (DTS) 2008 with SP1 or higher for BAM Archiving is not installed on the local machine. Please install Microsoft [...] Blog Post by: Brett

Introduction Accessibility isn’t always about aria roles and text to speech, it’s often about simply good design. There is a range of disabilities that need to be considered when working with the web. We often just think about blindness, but we should remember to consider the other things that make surfing the web difficult for people. [...] Blog Post by: Karissa Wingate

Ever needed to quickly look at or change tracking setting in BizTalk? The tool described in this post will make it all that easier.

I’ve just found this page, it regroups a lot of white paper about BizTalk http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15469.biztalk-server-white-paper-gallery.aspx?goback=%2Egde_4192731_member_208731119 I’m sure you will find your happiness Blog Post by: Jeremy Ronk

I probably don’t need to give any introduction about "BizTalk Summit 2013, London", one of the biggest BizTalk Server recently we conducted along with help of Microsoft product group and Microsoft UK. If in case you just bumped into this blog post, here are some background details Our experience organising BizTalk Summit London – 2013 [...] The post First set of videos from BizTalk Summit 2013, London appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

Of late I have been working on a BizTalk project that requires me to pick up XML data from a queue type table in a SQL Database. The table in question contains records which contain some metadata columns as well as an XML type column. Data, including the already formatted XML, is loaded into the table by an [...] Blog Post by: Johann

We’re still finalizing some of the arrangements (site and registration process), but today me and the team behind the preparation of this event, we visited the event location for the first time… and I can say that besides being extremely well located is a place full of history and culture – Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

In the previous installment of this series on refactoring BizTalk maps I discussed how you could take the easy road to ensure your maps work when the target namespace of your schema changes, or if the schema is moved to a different project or had it’s .NET type name changed. In this new entry to [...] Blog Post by: Johann

After wrestling with this tonight for sometime I’ve finally cracked it. SP2013 RTMed and alot of the sample code fails due to the fact that you need to now add ‘..;odata=verbose’ onto pretty much every call to SharePoint. Basically you get a series of errors such as: MIME type could not be found that matches the content type of the response . None of the supported type ( s ) ' application/atom+xml;type=entry , application/atom+xml , application/json;odata=verbose Previously alot of the sample...

This is one of my demonstrations from BizTalk Saturday at Auckland on 9/02/2013. This event was organised by Bill Chestnut and Nikolai Blackie. I was asked if you could use the same ReST send adapter and dynamically send different ReSTful requests. For example can we use a send adapter to send two GETS that use [...] Blog Post by: mbrimble

My last demo will be an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Demo: This demo intends to show how to configure trading partners, agreements and the creation of EDI Bridges to process and exchange EDI messages to your partners. We will sends a Sales Order message in an X12 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) format using the X12 [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

In an environment where Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit is deployed, a BizTalk receive location responsible for receiving ESB-destined messages is referred to as an "on-ramp." In the receive location you have to use one of the pipelines provided as part of the toolkit, and then correctly configure the components of that pipeline to determine the itinerary and link it to the message. So you can use almost any location outside BizTalk as an on-ramp but what if you want to pick up a message...

If the install for the labs did not complete, you will need to add the following line to the "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config" in the Here is the text of the above line: More ...

While setting up a new SharePoint solution one of the requirements was to embed a Yammer Feed. So I followed the help document only to have an unusual situation: 1) the feed wouldnt render in browse mode. 2) the feed WOULD render in Edit Mode. The key to the situation was to declare a little more on the sample script Yammer gave – adding ‘text/javascript’ Here’s the working script – (one for the bat –utility belt) *tested from Win8, Firefox * <script data-app-id='hyB2pTvrL36Y50py8EWj6A'...