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The Issue The ESB Toolkit 2.1 Exception Handling Framework provides the ability to easily report and and alert on both routed failed messages (where Failed Message Routing is enabled on a Receive or Send Port), as well as ESBFaults created from exceptions within an Orchestration.  However, if you try routing failed messages on a Send Port [...] Blog Post by: Tom Babiec

QuickLearn is excited to be heading to the UK to deliver our leading courses on Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. These courses have just been completely refreshed to  cover the latest features Microsoft have included in Update 2. Here is a list of the TFS 2012.2 courses we’re running in June. These courses are [...] Blog Post by: Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor)

One of my colleges started getting following error on the development machine: Schema referenced by Map '.' has been deleted. The local, cached version of the BizTalk Server group configuration is out of date. You must refresh the BizTalk Server group configuration before making further changes. (Microsoft.BizTalk.Administration.SnapIn) The deployment script stop working

Brian Loesgen has a post on his blog describing an issue he ran into performing a clean build of BizTalk Server 2013 and ESB Toolkit 2.2, where the Itinerary Designer extension is not registered in Visual Studio 2012 after the ESB Toolkit 2.2 installation step. I experienced this also so it may be more widespread [...] Blog Post by: Colin Meade

It’s gotten easy to publish web applications to the cloud, but the last thing you want to do is establish unique authentication schemes for each one. At some point, your users will be stuck with a mountain of passwords, or, end up reusing passwords everywhere. Not good. Instead, what about extending your existing corporate identity [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Exciting news… I just release a new version of “BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack” project (available on CodePlex and Code Gallery) with 7 new functoids for BizTalk Server 2010 (I will soon publish for older and new versions). Project Description BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack is a set of libraries with several useful functoids to include and [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Visio 2013 was released recently with updates including the new visio file format .vsdx, easier collaboration abilities and my favorite, the ability to provide data graphics to shapes. In this blog I will be discussing some of the basics of creating and using these data graphics with both internal Visio data and external data sources. Data [...] Blog Post by: azimmer

Navigating through a list or library with dozens or hundreds of items or folders can be a tedious task. There are a few ways to make it easier to find the information you are looking for. One unique way is to build a rolodex to filter the list items conveniently. The rolodex is configured by using [...] Blog Post by: Craig Condon

Here is the first windows update for BizTalk I have ever seen. I wonder if the updates for HIS 2013 will now come the same way. Blog Post by: mbrimble

You may have received this kind of e-mail and wonder if you have already VM Roles deployed. There are good chances the answer is no, but let’s check.   Dear Customer, The Windows Azure VM Role preview is being retired on May 15. Please transition to Windows Azure Virtual Machines, and delete your VM Role preview instances as soon as possible. Thank you for participating in the preview program for the Windows Azure VM Role. Since we started the preview program, we have learned a lot about your...

I didn't find any good reference on this so though of documenting the steps that worked for me Step 1: Go to 64-bit Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) Downloads page and download 64-bit ODAC 11.2 Release 5 (11.2.0.3.20) Xcopy for Windows x64 Step 2: Unzip the file downloaded in Step 1 it to a folder location. Step 3: Create a folder to install Oracle Client. I created C:\Oracle\

Background The requirement for a domain trust relationship depends on how a SharePoint Farm is configured, the SharePoint Farm could either reside in a perimeter network (or hosted environment), or the SharePoint Farm could be split between a perimeter network and the internal network. Scenario In this post we will assume a simple SharePoint Extranet where a SharePoint [...] Blog Post by: Ashraf Hameed

If you are planning to attend TechEd North America this June in New Orleans, LA and are looking for information on BizTalk Server running in Windows Azure IaaS then my session is for you! With the general release of Windows Azure IaaS and BizTalk 2013 Pay-Per-Hour pricing yesterday I figured now is a great time to plug my session.  The abstract is below. Abstract: This session looks at the architecture of three new integration infrastructure scenarios that are made possible with BizTalk Server...

We have a great love for BizTalk 360 here at Tallan, and the many capabilities it affords to the realm of BizTalk monitoring, alerting, and governance. For those not familiar, BizTalk 360 is a web based portal designed in Microsoft Silverlight which monitors BizTalk environments and is designed to address the the common hurdles enterprises face when managing BizTalk environments. Blog Post by: Kevin Morillo

Yesterday, BizTalk360 introduced the whole new title "BizTalk360 Product Specialist" on their blog . Because of the constantly increasing popularity of the monitoring tool BizTalk360, to streamline the process the new title and badge where introduced. The idea is to honour individuals who have gained adequate knowledge in installing, configuring and implementing BizTalk360 solution at customer sites. The only way of obtaining this title is by receiving the confirmation from the BizTalk360...