July 2009 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Yeah, I just gave a name to the next version. Who knows what it’ll actually be? Anyway, a BizTalk discussion list I’m on starting down a path talking about “little changes” that would please BizTalk developers. It’s easy...

I’ve been through many integration projects and I think now I’ve found a product more complicated than BizTalk. For the last 6 weeks internally we’ve been ‘rolling out’ (more like dragging through the mud) an OCS/UM setup – it now finally works!!!! (Inbound...

Over the past several months, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the concept of service virtualization. Service virtualization is an emerging trend in the SOA landscape that focuses on providing a common infrastructure for building and managing a complex...

Maybe you have decided WCF is the right technology for your next project because it has the power, productivity, and flexibility you need. But you might be a little nervous that your team will be able to get up to speed quickly and make the right design choices in applying WCF to you project.  Or maybe you just used WCF successfully for you last project, but wonder if there are things you could have done better. Either way, you will want to check out the new series of articles that we are releasing...

  The BizTalk Server 2009 RFID Operations Guide has hit the streets! The BizTalk 2009 Operations Guide was made available last week, and yesterday Microsoft have also released its RFID counterpart, with 108 pages worth of BizTalk RFID goodness, with...

Rama, one of my colleagues in the CAT team has just shipped the BizTalk Server 2009 RFID Operations Guide. Rama worked for two years as a Feature Program Manager on the V1 release and joined the CAT team just under a year ago. He knows RFID inside and out and this guide represents comprehensive documentation on how to actually run it in your environment. Everything that Rama wrote he has personally tested to ensure it is the optimal technique. This is an absolutely must read: The BizTalk Customer...

The next ACSUG meeting is set for the 12th of August at 6:00pm at Datacom, 210 Federal Street downtown Auckland. Register here. Presentation: The introduction of cloud computing marks a significant change in the IT industry. Offering scalability, flexibility...

The Live Mesh adapter is part of the recently released BizTalk Azure Adapters SDK 1.0 July CTP . It was first shown at TechEd 2009 North America by Danny Garber . But as someone who didn’t attend the conference, it passed me by. It didn’t surface for...

I am not sure if the war over ‘ which product is better ’ will ever be over, but the price battle sure has been won: WebSphere TX BizTalk IBM Passport Advantage Express Microsoft BizTalk Server Pricing and Licensing Overview Microsoft sure has made it...

The SBUG guys are holding their second online mini-meeting on Wednesday 29th July 2009 at 8pm (BST). Santosh Benjamin will be demonstrating the excellent Mocking Bird web-service mocking tool – I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks and...