In a previous post, I started a series on explaining some of the new features of BizTalk 2013 in more detail. We started with a more detailed explanation on why BizTalk 2013 will be using the XslCompiledTransform API. You can find a list of the new features that BizTalk 2013 introduces on our earlier post. [...] Blog Post by: Cnext

I have in several of my blog posts focused on statistics. And I’ve gotten a few mails regarding the sudden loss of this data. So what really is the problem. When I refer to statistics I’m aiming for information in the tracking database and the tables for in and out events, and instances. This problem [...] Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

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 of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013. And explain how a few of new features can contribute to a more efficient solution. Blog Post by: Kevin Morillo

Microsoft is hosting a huge BizTalk event in Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s over two days and there will be a lot of juicy information including some NDA stuff! I’ll do my Throttling and thresholds presentation their as well, and it will be a blast to meet some of my readers too! The BizTalk Boot Camp [...] Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

There’s a great Centrebet case study http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Centrebet/Microsoft-Windows-Azure-a-safe-bet-for-sports-bookmaker-s-website/710000000390 Blog Post by: Mick Badran

I just discovered a series of blog post that I just had to share with all of you... It's a complete guide to set up a High available BizTalk environment. A perfect walthrough from start to finish to obtain a BizTalk High availability environment. The guide covers 7 blog posts in total: Part 1: Preparations Part 2: Domain Controller Installation Part 3: SQL & BizTalk Active Directory Accounts Part 4: Prepping our SQL & BizTalk Failover Clusters Part 5: SQL Server 2008r2 Failover Cluster...

The Microsoft Team has just announced the release of the very first Cumulative Update For BizTalk 2013. But an even more surprising news is that it is available using Microsoft Update!… This is the very first time a BizTalk Update can be obtained with Microsoft Update, as before it had to be done by downloading [...] Blog Post by: Cnext

The Microsoft Team has just announced the release of the very first Cumulative Update For BizTalk 2013. But an even more surprising news is that it is available using Microsoft Update!... This is the very first time a BizTalk Update can be obtained with Microsoft Update, as before it had to be done by downloading it manually through the hotfix download. An amazing improvement if you ask me, making it a whole lot easier for administrators. The update will still be available through the hotfix download...

Recently Microsoft added Backup Services (Preview) in which you can invoke the cloud as part of your backup strategy, whether it be offsite secondaries etc. You may have heard of Microsoft’s StorSimple which involved dropping a 2RU or 4RU Hardware device into a customer’s rack in a Datacenter somewhere which is no easy feat. The reason why I’m liking the Azure Backup Services approach is that it’s a software based solution. Storage costs for Backups are cheaper and this is a feasible approach for...

The product team doesn’t stop surprising in these last two months! After announcing a month ago the latest version of the product: BizTalk Server 2013 and many new features and improvements available is this version… they left another surprise well kept! The product team just announced today the release of the first cumulative update that [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

After I provisioned a Windows Azure Virtual Machine, which was based on the BizTalk Server 2013 Beta image from the Gallery, I configured the BizTalk Backup job. Normally it is enough to just apply the file locations of the Full backup and the Log backup and to Enable the job, but when I did this, I noticed in the History of the job, that the job failed. The error I got was 'Could not find server BTS2013B in sys.servers', where BTS2013B is the name that I assigned to the Virtual Machine....

Create dynamic attributes and elements in XSLT in a dynamic way by using attribute value templates. A great way to loop through elements and create attributes.

A lot of confusion surrounds the concept of block and inline elements, and its not unusual for this confusion to persist indefinitely. I’m hopefully going to clarify this tiny but influential difference for everyone in just a few images and with one CSS property. The first image is a screen capture of the HTML and CSS [...] Blog Post by: Karissa Wingate

Delegate Controls are generic controls found in all of the out-of-the-box master pages in SharePoint, a Delegate Control provides the ability to dynamically render ASP.net controls (candidates) in master pages extending the functionality of SharePoint without the need to directly modify any of those master pages. So Basically, a Delegate Control provides a “plug-in” framework making [...] Blog Post by: Ashraf Hameed

Creating successful user experiences is an art. A lot of art involves taking advantage of the way that the brain processes information. The most successful designs (user experiences or otherwise) are those that give off feeling of “how else would you do it?”. The design simply seems to make sense. Designing an interface is a [...] Blog Post by: Karissa Wingate

Error handling: One of the reasons that HTML standards are so important is because HTML is a language that has historically been written with a lot of errors and now has many different versions. One of the rules that has been generally agreed upon by browser makers is “don’t break the web”. This means that all [...] Blog Post by: Karissa Wingate

Brief (but required) history lesson: Back when IE had 90% or so of the market share, browsers were essentially an enigma. It was hard to know exactly how things worked. Now that open source browsers have a significant part of the market share and there is competition between them in terms of functionality, how the browser [...] Blog Post by: Karissa Wingate

I recently installed and configured a small SharePoint farm containing two virtual servers using Oracle Virtual Box and decided to share my experience of the process. For the most part the configuration is simple, but there are a number of common small discrepancies that can be the difference between your servers communicating correctly, or you [...] Blog Post by: azimmer

The language of the modern web is HTML5. It’s a great thing. You probably don’t understand why yet, but you will. Our most basic page: That’s really boring, you might say. Well yes, it is. If you opened it in a browser it would be a blank page. But it is important because before we [...] Blog Post by: Karissa Wingate

I’ve been hard at work on a new Pluralsight video course and it’s now live and available for viewing. This course, Patterns of Cloud Integration, takes you through how application and data integration differ when adding cloud endpoints. The course highlights the 4 integration styles/patterns introduced in the excellent Enterprise Integration Patterns book and discusses [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter