June 2005 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I Passed BizTalk Exam!

I took the BizTalk 2004 exam today and passed. I thought it was pretty hard, but the questions were fair, and a good test of your hands-on experience and understanding of the product. It would be hard to just cram for the exam from documents, if you don’t...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2005 1:09 PM by BizTalk 101 - Back to Basics

Common Referenced Property Schema, accessing promoted properties in an Orchestration

I recently came across a little un-documented feature of BizTalk with a promoted property... from a referenced schema

Published Wed, Jun 06 2005 3:28 AM by blog.paul.somers.com

Filed under: BizTalk, Main Page

BizTalk 2006 CTP Install

Last week I installed the BizTalk 2006 CTP bits obtained from Tech-Ed a couple of times on a VPC. I learned a couple of things during the install that others have also blogged on, but that are good things to keep in mind: 1. Follow Microsoft's installation...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 11:30 AM by The Biztalk Integration Architect

Tech-Ed 2005 Session Summary

Tech-Ed 2005 took place a couple of weeks ago and I'm now finding time to post some updates. Both Brandon and I staffed the Microsoft CSI booth and presented on Implementing Real-World Integration Patterns with BizTalk. For more information on the session...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 10:18 AM by The Biztalk Integration Architect

TechEd Europe

I’ll be working on the “Ask the Experts” stand for BizTalk Server at TechEd in Amsterdam next week, along with other MVPs and Microsoft staff. Feel free to drop in if you have any BizTalk related questions. There’s a lot of BizTalk...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 7:32 AM by BizTalk 101 - Back to Basics

Fun with BAM and orchestration execution time

Abstract : I’ve using BAM to measure execution time in some orchestrations. I cannot use HAT because I needed to do some calculations to rest waiting time of the external processes. It’s extremely easy. Things get funny when we needed to get more that...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 5:42 AM by David Hurtado's Integration Traces

Announcement: Get Connected to Free Product Support and Tremendous Online Collaboration

The product group have asked me to post this a nnouncement to let you know about the great online support that we have available, I strongly encourage you to take a look because (1) its free J , (2) there is a lot of good traffic thru it and (3) a lot...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2005 12:38 AM by Kevin B Smith's WebLog

Getting the most from the BizTalk Management Pack...

A whole raft of whitepapers for BizTalk have been released over the last several weeks - see here and here . I completed a whitepaper a short while back (though just released) on getting the most out of the BizTalk 2004 Management Pack and Microsoft Operations...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2005 6:31 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights

Getting the most from the BizTalk Management Pack...

A whole raft of whitepapers for BizTalk have been released over the last several weeks - see here and here . I completed a whitepaper a short while back (though just released) on getting the most out of the BizTalk 2004 Management Pack and Microsoft Operations...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2005 6:31 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: BizTalk Insights

TechEd 2005 and DevCon presentations...

TechEd 2005 was a great time, and I really enjoyed the extended look at BizTalk 2006 - lots of great presentations. Much more has been done in this release than I had anticipated, and I look forward to digging into the CTP build. Thanks to those who attended...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2005 6:23 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: Deployment Framework

TechEd 2005 and DevCon presentations...

TechEd 2005 was a great time, and I really enjoyed the extended look at BizTalk 2006 - lots of great presentations. Much more has been done in this release than I had anticipated, and I look forward to digging into the CTP build. Thanks to those who attended...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2005 6:23 AM by Trace of Thought (Scott Colestock)

Filed under: Deployment Framework

Calling A Receive Pipeline Inside an Orchestration in BizTalk 2006

Impresive! from Steve W Thomas : For starter, why would you want to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration? I had to struggle for a bit to come up with a good reason… I can find it useful in debatching Scenarios that require mapping prior...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2005 11:35 PM by David Hurtado's Integration Traces

The 11th BizTalk Commandment - Thou shalt not change thy namespaces

Namespaces are sacred changing them could result in chicken sacrificing and other ungodly practices. BizTalk is very xml-centric. If you change a namespace think about what references that schema, map, orchestration pipeline, rules composer vocabulary...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2005 10:20 PM by synBoogaloo

BizTalk BAM Portal 2006: Activity Search

In a previous post , I described the home page of the new BAM Portal. Today, let's take a look at the Instance Search feature. The instance search allows you to search BAM data for a particular activity instance: You can add / remove clauses using the...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2005 6:02 PM by Gilles' WebLog

Filed under: BizTalk 2004

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - BizTalk Assembly Replication and Viewer

BizTalk Server 2004 has a very cool architecture that allows it to balance the processing of a workload across many BizTalk Servers when they are configured to function as a group. When we use this "Group", or "Farm" configuration, all the BizTalk Servers...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 4:20 PM by Marty Wasznicky - Regional BizTalk Rants

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - Installing Windows Sharepoint Servcies Batch File

Installing BizTalk Server 2004 sometimes entails installing Windows Sharepoint Services, specifically if you want to use Business Activity Services (Trading Party Mgmt, BAM portal, etc..). However, I see more and more folks configuring it improperly,...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 2:57 PM by Marty Wasznicky - Regional BizTalk Rants

Why (good) Xml is much better than plain text

There are many reasons, sure, and probably there are also reasons why plain text files can be better, but I would like to remark just only one reason, just because I fighting with it right now: Xml is human readable Or at least, it should be. I’m dealing...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2005 1:57 AM by David Hurtado's Integration Traces

BizTalk Server 2006: What is new with Business Activity Monitoring?

You probably already read Scott's document on what is new in Business Activity Monitoring 2006 .Today, I'll shed some light on the brand new "out of the box" portal. All information are based on the CTP build you might have picked up at TechEd 2005. Keep...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2005 10:03 PM by Gilles' WebLog

Filed under: BizTalk 2004

Bloggers Guide to BizTalk 2006*

There’s a new edition out now, get it here . I’ve added a “BizTalk Server 2006” section, there’s only one post there, but this should change in the next edition as you guys get your hands on the TechEd builds, and the beta becomes available. I’m thinking...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2005 12:21 PM by BizTalk 101 - Back to Basics

New White Papers...

We've been at it again. If you haven't seen these, check out these new white papers: BizTalk Server 2004: A Messaging Engine Overview . This document describes the architecture and internal workings of BizTalk Server 2004 as a messaging engine. BizTalk...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2005 6:30 PM by Marty Wasznicky - Regional BizTalk Rants

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I Passed BizTalk Exam!

Common Referenced Property Schema, accessing promoted properties in an Orchestration

BizTalk 2006 CTP Install

Tech-Ed 2005 Session Summary

TechEd Europe

Fun with BAM and orchestration execution time

Announcement: Get Connected to Free Product Support and Tremendous Online Collaboration

Getting the most from the BizTalk Management Pack...

Getting the most from the BizTalk Management Pack...

TechEd 2005 and DevCon presentations...

TechEd 2005 and DevCon presentations...

Calling A Receive Pipeline Inside an Orchestration in BizTalk 2006

The 11th BizTalk Commandment - Thou shalt not change thy namespaces

BizTalk BAM Portal 2006: Activity Search

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - BizTalk Assembly Replication and Viewer

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - Installing Windows Sharepoint Servcies Batch File

Why (good) Xml is much better than plain text

BizTalk Server 2006: What is new with Business Activity Monitoring?

Bloggers Guide to BizTalk 2006*

New White Papers...