I found these earlier this week but after I printed them on poster size paper everyone who sees them wants a copy.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34F41573-C552-466F-B531-32CB09A57CDD&displaylang=en
Enjoy.
Hard working and always available ‘Big
Kev’ aka Scott Scovell has come up with a gem in his latest blog post.
Grab the sequence and the order of components, as well as finer details around the
need to change BizTalk RFID Services from using your default website (usually if Sharepoint
is on the box, then it’s a good idea to)
Well done Scotty! Nice one.
Well what a week…..I’ve finally put a media interview that I originally started
with Steve Sloan and Christine Bishop for Aussie FEN
Magazine. I was there representing the local industry topology around RFID and
MS RFID Services.
It was one of those things that as we were all talking, I did have a thought flash
across my mind – “Mick if that comment is taken the wrong way, or you say the wrong
thing……then you’d better cherish your last MVP year :)”
Coming through the other side and a Podcast later – it’s all looking very cool. There’s
some great news to be released in this space….more on this later.
Anush Kumar Mr RFID Services
himself – had a ball at the R2 Launch and we got to once again hang out. All superb!
There’s a handful of people who you meet in your travels that are just great guys…..he’s
one! And I’m overlooking the fact he wants to get out there on the cricket pitch and
play for India!
http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkrfid/archive/2007/09/28/other-biztalk-rfid-ers-in-blogosphere.aspx –
it’s all true folks 🙂
Another guy who’s making huge leaps and bounds in the RFID space is our very own Scott
Scovell. Scott and I are working on some serious RFID stuff at the moment and
he also has a wealth of stories/knowledge from right down at the coal face in not
only implementing BizTalk RFID Services but a very good head for the whole integration
environment. Stay tuned……. I promise we’ll share soon 🙂
Rocking and rolling…..
I was onsite the other day on a WinXP machine doing some work. I had a few moments
to kill before I entered the time of ‘men are men….and women are satisfied’
and had to perform (something close 🙂
I came across http://universal-vista-inspirat.en.softonic.com/ie/screenshots
These guys have done some great work around the screen, UI, control panel, applets
and there’s even a MacOS x still chooser bar……stacks of options. (e.g. I love
the number of ‘bounces’ an icon will do when you double click on it to launch the
app) – all free.
This has got the big thumbs up from me….. I’m very tempted to install XP just for
this theme!
I normally don’t just link to announcements from MS – but this poster http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34F41573-C552-466F-B531-32CB09A57CDD&displaylang=en is
very very cool.
Every person I’ve shown it to wanted a copy immediately.
I’m actually working on a whitepaper that goes along with it – with links to the pertinent
documentation. I’ll post that link when that piece is done.
Check out my BizTalk
R2 Training.
A friend of mine Dan, gave a great recount of his very first experience with BizTalk
when I came in and built a prototype in a couple of days (no pressure or anything
– not that the business decision makers were watching over my shoulder at every move).
Later I realised that Dan’s company was doing the ‘Pepsi’ challenge on me, by giving
Microsoft and the others a set of 25 tasks to do within the integration space.
No pre-canned demos, real live sink or swim stuff. Two days later I came out of the
‘Tribal Council’ with immunity and they had a great path forward. I then went on to
help them with their actual implementations.
Dan recounts a little of this encounter here – http://techtalkblogs.com/blog/archive/2007/10/10/3221.aspx
In February of this year Microsoft issued a patch to fix a time change issue in BizTalk Server. The issue wasn’t specific to any recent change to Daylight Savings Time (DST) but was discovered when we tested BizTalk in preparation for the United States legislation that extended DST this year. This patch should be applied to any BizTalk installation in a region that experiences a seasonal time shift.
If you haven’t already installed the patch you should get it from:
For BizTalk Server 2004: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;931960
For BizTalk Server 2006: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;931961
The recently released BizTalk Server 2006 R2 already includes the fix. No patch is required for this issue.
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