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Earlier this week I had an ESB endpoint (Off-Ramp in ESB parlance) that I was sending to over http using WCF-BasicHttp. I needed to switch the protocol to https: which I did by changing my UDDI Binding over to https: No problem from a management perspective;...

We have had BizTalk 2006 R2, and now we will soon have BizTalk 2009 R2, so don’t get confused… and BizTalk is far from being replaced it only gets better. I’ve been looking at 2009 R2 recently, and I can tell you a few things about what’s coming, within...

I a previous post I described a way to deal with untyped messages in the Business Rule Engine. This allows for flexibility in scenarios where you want to use a single set of rules (lets call it an “untyped policy”) on multiple types of messages. Untyped...

In the past I have published overview tables of BizTalk version numbers. I used to publish a new table whenever a new version or service pack of BizTalk server was released. I wanted to do the same after the release of SP1 for BizTalk server 2006 R2....

Here we are at the 18th interview in my riveting series of questions and answers with thought leaders in the “connected technologies” space. All the MVPs are back from the recently MVP Summit and should be back on speaking terms with one another. Let...

A new white paper was released a few days ago by Microsoft, written by MVP Jon Flanders, on the ESB Toolkit. It’s a well written paper that walks through the architecture, and shows examples, and serves as both an overview and a mini-tutorial. Great place to start if you want to come up to speed on this. He REALLY nails it well in the summary, I would quote it here but that would violate the copyright, so I’ll paraphrase: “hey this is really cool and powerful, and adds tremendous business value”...

BizTalk: Compensation Model Charles Young mentioned, the Compensation is one of the most under-used features of the BizTalk. [“ BizTalk Server 2006: The Compensation Model ” http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/100424.aspx ] If you didn’t read his...

A couple of people have reported a nasty bug in the PowerShell Provider version 1.0 Beta. The provider doesn’t seem to work when SQL Server (hosting the BizTalk management database) is on a remote SQL Server. Although we will have this fixed in the 1...

Look at the next version of BizTalk 2009 R2, coming soon, and then think what else would I like to ...

Recently there’s been a few really good resources on streaming pipeline handling published. You can find some of the here and here. The Optimizing Pipeline Performance MSDN article has two great examples of how to use some of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Streaming...