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Well folks I’ve been greeted with the news that Microsoft Windows Azure will be in 2 geo-replicated places here on Australian soil, coming ‘shortly’. As an Azure MVP & from Breeze (a leading Microsoft Cloud Partner) perspective we invest heavily in cloud technologies. What does this mean and why...

With the new WCF-WebHttp Adapter that shipped in BizTalk Server 2013 we now have the ability to specify which HTTP verbs to use – this opens up the possibility of invoking RESTful style applications. In this post, I’ll investigate how we can RESTfully invoke an endpoint that exposes data...

While looking into purchasing MSDN licenses for a client here’s what I found: For the US: Now when you change the drop down from US to Australia we get these prices (given that $AUD 1 = (approx) $USD 1 So for e.g. take a MSDN – VS.NET Test. Aussie Dollar = $3,460 US= $2,170 which equates to $AUD 1 =...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 was recently released and it includes many new features that make developing and deploying for BizTalk considerably more effecient. There are also many new features which expand on the already vast capabilities of a BizTalk Solution. In this post I will go over the new features...

Note this is not the official Licensing document for BizTalk Server! Please consult Microsoft before making any purchase decisions. Overview With the BizTalk 2013 (english locale) SKUs hitting the Microsoft sites for purchase in April. It is important to note an important change Microsoft have made to...

You may pass things like: “Beware falling rocks do not stop” on the side of the road while on a trip somewhere. Here’s one I got today from Outlook: “Was this info helpful?” – love it! Blog Post by: Mick Badran

It's a good practice to make static send ports dynamic, by changing the OutboundTransportLocation property in the send pipeline. However, when using this mechanism on WCF send ports, there's a caveat. Let's have a look!

In the past couple weeks there was an uproar in the tech community after it was learned that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer was halting the “work from home” program and telling staff to get to the office. The response among techies was swift and mostly negative as the prevailing opinion was that this sort...

When I went to the Microsoft Partner Portal – Boom! https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/au/Pages/index.aspx Blog Post by: Mick Badran

I have just taken the plunge and upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 (partly because of the £25 upgrade offer). After the upgrade I noticed a severe lack of space on my otherwise roomy C: drive. A quick check in Windows Explorer reveals a windows.old directory which contains all of my old Windows 7...

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...

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...

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

2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in Engineering. It was a blast visiting Australia to talk about integration technologies, going to Microsoft...

As a pure Microsoft fan, I pretty much buy anything that gets shipped by Microsoft whether I use it or not. XBOX is one such device which was just sitting and collecting dust in my TV cabinet for a while now. During this holiday season I decided to clean up the TV cabinet, get rid [...] The post Microsoft...

In blink of an eye 2012 has come and gone and we have accomplished incredible things together. We are growing at an incredible phase and it’s time to take a moment and think about our "Sense of Purpose". This year on behalf of BizTalk360 we are donating $1625 to "Great Ormand Street...

If you have log-shipped or moved your BAM databases to another environment, you might find that the legacy data in your non-rta view vanishes and only recent data is displayed. This defeats the purpose of having scheduled aggregations to view data over months. However, there is a way to “reset”...

If you have log shipped or detached/attached the BAMAlerts databases, you will have issues starting the notification service on the BizTalk server for BAM alerts. The reason for this, when these databases are restored, the the ‘Cross-Database Ownership Chaining’ option on the BAMAlertsApplication...

Hi guys, while planning for an Azure Based Event (ABE) coming soooon….or at least after Santa has come and gone & given me a birthday pressie, I was directed to a new site in the wings. Coatsy and his DPE crew have been busy creating a site just for us. One that accepts our slang and other Aussie...

We were testing some throttling parameters in BizTalk, and for that we were pumping lots of load into our test environment. The system soon became unstable and we had to do a hard restart. After the restart, when we opened the SQL enterprise manager we spotted some of the databases are in "Suspect"...

Last month I updated my main laptop MacBook Pro to Windows 8 and I’ve written about the experience here "Installing Windows 8 on MacBook Pro experience".  There are no noticeable issues and I’m quite pleased with it. Even though technically all of the applications that run in...

In the BizTalk toolbox, you have two standard pipeline components that can perform this XML validation. These components have a very different behavior. Let’s have a detailed look.

Hi folks, I’m just blown away by all the goodies in these 2 releases 1) the SP1 2) the Feature Pack SP1 Both have some pretty big improvements, especially around the SharePoint 2013 <-> SQL scenario and pivot tables, analysis, mining etc. There’s even SQL Services that continuously copy data from...

Folks with the unforeseen skill from Christian Longstaff , we could be unveiling something great….. kicking around a few ideas and Christian’s talent for such things shone. As with all amazing shiny new things it needed a place in the blog-sphere… Could the be a book….a show….a movie….or something more...

It’s a common practice to reuse schemas and types within your BizTalk solution. Lately, I’ve encountered an issue regarding this. Here you can find a simplified example and a solution to the problem.