by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
BizTalk product team is holding a series of focus groups at Tech Ed Boston. Our goal is to have our best customers and partners have a chance to provide direct input to the BizTalk Server product group while we’re in early planning stages for future versions of the product.
There are six sessions in total. Details are provided here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/focusgroups.mspx
We encourage you to participate and invite your colleagues and customers. We want to hear your feedback!
by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer is used to automatically examine a BizTalk Server 2006 deployment and generate a list of issues pertaining to best practices standards for BizTalk Server deployments. The primary use of this tool is to examine BizTalk Server production and staging environments, although it will still be useful on Dev machines.
The Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases, and registry entries. The Best Practices Analyzer uses the data to evaluate the deployment configuration.
Downloads (live on 6/2):
- Live Download Center URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DDA047E3-408E-48BA-83F9-F397226CD6D4&displaylang=en
- Technet Page: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/biztalk/downloads/bpa.mspx
by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer automatically examines a BizTalk Server 2006 deployment and generate a list of issues pertaining to best practices standards for BizTalk Server deployments. The primary use of this tool is to examine BizTalk Server production and staging environments, though it will still be useful on Dev machines.
You can donwload it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DDA047E3-408E-48BA-83F9-F397226CD6D4&displaylang=en….(read more)
by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I found an interesting thing about Biztalk 2006 map backward compatibility with Biztalk 2004. As you cannot install both Biztalk 2006 and Biztalk 2004 on the same box, I am sometimes left with a Biztalk 2006 map on a Biztalk 2004 machine.
I had a few maps which were initially developed in Biztalk 2004 and migrated to Biztalk 2006. I had made a few updates to the maps using Visual Studio 2005. If you try to open the Visual Studio Solution file created with VS2005 in VS2003, it would not open the project, However I found that you can open the “.btproj” project file in Visual Studio 2003 (Biztalk 2004 Machine) and make changes to the map/Schema. This backward compatibility was neat and helped me a lot!!
Thought this might be useful to somebody who works both on Biztalk 2004 and 2006 at the same time 🙂
Note: If you add any Biztalk 2006 Specific Functoids (for ex: Assert Functoid), this would not work.
by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2006 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I love the new-to-06 BizTalk admin console. I’m on my 3rd project with 06 and couldn’t imagine going back to 04. But… I find myself navigating left-to-right an awful lot while working with the BizTalk admin console. Specifically my scenario is try something, figure where it breaks, terminate the suspended services, and then try something else. The horizontal navigation comes when I click on the BizTalk group in the left tree, then have to click the “Run Query” button all the way over on the right before I can scroll to the bottom and terminate the suspended instances. Why can’t this button be left side of the query expression? I guess I can hit F5 to refresh, but I don’t think keystrokes are consistent with the rest of the admin console usabilty….
