Overnet Education in collaboration with Microsoft Italy and User Group Italiano Connected System has organaised one of the biggest BizTalk event in Italy. All thanks goes to Nino Crudele (fellow Italian BizTalk Server MVP) for taking the effort to organise the event. It's not a easy task by no means organising a community activity (FREE) of this magnitude bringing international speakers. Big thanks to Nino for organising this. If you are somewhere near by (Sweden, Norway, UK or any European destination...

Inspired by some tweets I had with Sam Vanhoutte ( @SamVanhoutte ), Mikael Sand ( @MikaelSand ) and Dean Robertson ( @DeanRobertson ), I decided to write down a number of our experiences of what can go wrong, or what you could forget, in case of a simple message based routing scenario. So basically this article contains a checklist, which can be used as a reminder in case your message based routing scenario does not work, like you expected. Scenario Imagine you have a message based routing solution...

It seems that there is still so much friction in the request and fulfillment of IT services. Need a quick task tracking website? That’ll take a change request, project manager, pair of business analysts, a few 3rd party developers and a test team. Want a report to replace your Excel workbook pivot charts? Let’s ramp [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Today we published a white paper explaining the importance of BizTalk Server monitoring and Top 15 best practices your can follow to get your monitoring story correct. Read the complete article BizTalk Monitoring - Top 15 Best Practices in our official BizTalk360 blog . Hope you enjoy it, please feel free to add your views as comments. Nandri Saravana Kumar

I already talked about Muenchian Grouping in BizTalk Maps in the past: BizTalk Training – Mapping – Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in BizTalk Maps without losing Map functionalities Inspired by a question in BizTalk Server Forums: XSLT Mapping Question (Summing Values)… I decided to solved this problem and publish this sample to help this user… [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

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Just play around with PowerShell and some BizTalk administrative and maintenance tasks… It’s always good to know what software is installed in our environment. Sometimes we need to know what version of BizTalk is installed or what version of the Adapter Pack, x86 or x64? And preferably be able to get this list in an [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Very simple, but a handy way of viewing nicely-formatted JSON in LINQPad : I use Json.NET as it does indented formatting, and represents JSON dates properly . To add as an extension, download Json.NET , add a reference to Newtonsoft.Json.dll to your ...

I was thinking about this topic today, and as someone who built the AWS Developer Fundamentals course for Pluralsight, is a Microsoft MVP who plays with Windows Azure a lot, and has an unnatural affinity for PaaS platforms like Cloud Foundry / Iron Foundry and Force.com, I figured that I had some opinions on this [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Great news for the BizTalk community, Overnet Education in collaboration with Microsoft and User Group Italiano Connected System (ugics.org) will organize, for the first time, one of the most interesting free events related to BizTalk Server and integration services with the presence of international speakers. With a very intense, half-day sessions with high technical content, [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I took a brief hiatus from my series of interviews with “connected systems” thought leaders, but we’re back with my 39th edition. This month, we’re chatting with Dean Robertson who is a longtime integration architect, BizTalk SME, organizer of the Azure User Group in Brisbane, and both the founder and Technology Director of Australian consulting [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Enterprise mobility is one of the hottest trends in today’s IT industry. However, like any other emerging technology space, the industry is still trying to learn about the challenges and establish best practices and patterns that can help organizations...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-renames-azure-services – article talks about MS renaming services and essentially dropping the ‘Windows…’ out of it. My experience has seen this will appeal to the non-MS types that see ‘Windows…’ as something they don’t want to go near. I personally think it’s a good move as sure it’s Windows but the Azure Platform offers so much more….. Here’s some of the proposed changes…. Prior Service Name New Service Name Windows Azure Compute Cloud Services Windows Azure...

When it comes to BizTalk environment "Backup and Disaster recovery", the only official supported option is Log shipping. This applies to all the versions of BizTalk Servers listed below BizTalk Server 2004 SP1, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009 and 2010 Log shipping was originally introduced in BizTalk 2006 and back ported to 2004 via SP1 . MSDN article contains very good resources, explaining the steps involved in setting up and restoring BizTalk databases. Microsoft story on BizTalk Server backup/restore...

In UK we got a policy of shifting the bank holidays that comes in the middle of the week to following Monday, so people can have an extended weekend. Last year's 1st May bank holiday was shifted to 2nd May, on that day we released our very first version of BizTalk360 CTP to public. Today is 7th May, alternative to 2012's 1st May holiday. We introduced BizTalk360 with a very powerful tag line " Worlds first BizTalk production support and monitoring tool ". We clearly understood,...

Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. Mike Pearl from PWC Looks At Cloud Strategy Through The Lens Of Value in a guest post for Forbes, Michelle Boisvert discusses the Real and perceived security threats...

“The order in which we perform the links between the elements from source to destination has a huge impact in the final result”. This statement is true and false at the same time! In fact the order with which we associate links (Drag & Drop) from the source to different destination elements is irrelevant, since [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Name: Don't automatically shove your config in BTSNTSVC.exe.config because its easy? Description: I wrote a blog post a few years ago around the options for where you could put configuration settings in BizTalk ( Click here ). As I mention in the...

Lately, I’ve been playing around a lot with the Windows Azure Service Bus EAI components (currently in CTP). During my upcoming Australia trip (register now!) I’m going to be walking through a series of use cases for this technology. There are plenty of cool things about this software, and one of them is that you [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Yesterday we announced the immediate availability of BizTalk360 V4.0, you can download it and start using it straight away from here http://www.biztalk360.com/Content/beta Now BizTalk360 got it's own blog, please subscribe http://feeds.feedburner.com/biztalk360 to get regular updates on our progress. One of the major improvements we have made for BizTalk360 v4.0 is extending our monitoring capabilities. In previous version, customers were able to monitor all the artifacts related to BizTalk Applications...