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I’ve talked a lot about efficient documentation previously on this blog, both when in comes to splitting the documentation up in different layers as here, but also in relation to tools BizTalk Documenter and BizTalk Web Documenter for automatically generation technical documentation as here. Last week...

The next few months I have some free time for on-site training, together with my company we have decided to give a discount on on-site training for all my followers and blog readers all around the world. We are giving 500 USD discount to all attendees. Not only that but the minimum sign-ups have been...

About a year ago I published a project that helps automating documentation for BizTalk Server – much like BizTalk Documenter but with the difference that this tools instead generates a dynamic web site. I’ve called in Config Explorer, a name I knew was sh*t from the start but the best I could come up...

I have done an interview with fellow BizTalk MVP Sandro . You can read it here . Sandro is one of the technical reviewers of my forthcoming BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook . Enjoy the story!

As most BizTalk developers/architects you have probably been in a situation were documentation of your integration solution has been discussed.  And you probably also been just as happy as me when you first found BizTalk Documenter. BizTalk Documenter is a great tool for extracting all that configuration...

I have previously written about how to generate a types set of WCF services to achieve end-to-end BAM based tracking – even from outside potential firewalls etc.  So for example external parties could log via a BAM solution when for example sending or processing messages that are part of your integration...

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An integration between systems can often be view upon as a chain of system and services working together to move a message to its final destination. One problem with this loosely-coupled way of dealing with message transfers is that its hard to see if and where something has gone wrong. Usually all we...

Introduction Today I witnessed a BizTalk catastrophic event. One of the SQL drives for a company I work for failed. In scrambling to find some solutions and fixes for the errors we were seeing I realized I could not find a great case study in a catastrophic event for BizTalk. One thing that would be...

Recently I had to integrate with Oracle db using the BizTalk 2006 Oracle adapter (Note: just our vanilla Oracle adapter, not the WCF one). I experience huge challenge setting it up on a Windows 2003 64 bit machine. It's mainly around getting the correct Oracle drivers, using the 64 bit version of...

Introduction Recently I heard from Microsoft that there is now a new release model for hotfix rollups for BizTalk. The new model is similar to the service pack model (like with BizTalk 2006 R2 SP1) but is known as a Cumulative Update (CU). From what I have heard this is to provide greater frequency to...

Introduction Back during the BizTalk 2010 beta I was testing out the Party Migration tool. This tool enables a smoother migration path from BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2009 to BizTalk 2010. It is very useful once you get it to run successfully. Back during the beta I experienced quite a few issues and...

A while back I blogged about a service that would go fetch Natural Gas Prices, the price of Oil and Stock Quotes from Yahoo.    The information that is returned from BizTalk is surfaced in an Xcelsius dashboard along with a lot of other business critical data from SAP.  Our executive...

Many of you have been waiting for this, and BizTalk 2010 has just been released to manufacturing. It will be available for purchase starting October 1 st , 2010. The evaluation and free Developer editions are now available for download from the BizTalk Server website . Cheers Peter

Ok, that’s a bit of an attention grabbing headline, so let me clarify that statement: SCOM can cause unchecked growth in SSODB if you’re not regularly backing up the SSODB transaction log. We encountered this one today – a client’s SSODB ran out of space overnight, causing the...

I’ve doing a lot of EDI related work in BizTalk lately and I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed it! EDI takes a while to get used to (see example below), but once one started to understand it I’ve found it to be a real nice, strict standard – with some cool features built [...]

I’ve posted a few times before on how powerful I think it is in complex mapping to be able to replace the BizTalk Mapper with a custom XSLT script (here’s how to). The BizTalk Mapper is nice and productive in simpler scenarios but in my experience it break down in more complex ones and maintaining [...

Late Thursday night last week we decided to upgrade one of our largest BizTalk 2006 R2 environment to recently released Service Pack 1. The installation went fine and everything looked good. … But after a while we started see loads of error messages looking like below. Unable to cast COM object of type...

Recently there’s been a few really good resources on streaming pipeline handling published. You can find some of the here and here. The Optimizing Pipeline Performance MSDN article has two great examples of how to use some of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Streaming.dl classes. The execute method of first example...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2009 release, as well as some additional enhancements...

As all of you know the number one time consuming task in BizTalk is deployment. How many times have you worked your way through the steps below (and even more interesting – how much time have you spent on them …) Build Create application Deploy schemas Deploy transformations Deploy orchestration...

It gives me great pleasure to announce Version 1.0 of the BizTalk Message Archiving Pipeline Component and my new venture, Atomic-Scope. The component allows you to archive Xml, flat-file, EDI and binary messages as they pass thru receive and send pipelines, without the need for complex ‘archiving’...

Microsoft Support have just a published a helpful support article discussing some of the general guidelines that need to be followed when applying BizTalk Server Hotfixes, applicable to all versions from BizTalk Server 2004 onwards. The article covers some of the more salient points we need to remember...

Originally posted by Nick Heppleston at: http://www.modhul.com/2009/09/04/configuring-biztalk-backup-for-disaster-recovery-part-2/ This is the second of a three-part series covering the BizTalk Backup Process, where I’m looking at one of the two supported methods to backup and restore a BizTalk...

Originally posted by Nick Heppleston at: http://www.modhul.com/2009/09/04/configuring-biztalk-backup-for-disaster-recovery-part-2/ This is the second of a three-part series covering the BizTalk Backup Process, where I’m looking at one of the two supported methods to backup and restore a BizTalk...