by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Hey guys, I’ve got a couple of seats left for some MOSS 2007 training at the end
of this month.
If you’re wondering what all this WSS/MOSS stuff is all about, I’ll be running an equally
focused MOSS developer and administration course very soon 🙂
What do I ned to say about moss? (if you’re using/developing/designing
and implementing – come along and fine out what works and what doesnt. Save you a
whole lot of head banging later – unless you’re at AC/DC 🙂
Who should go:
– If you have a SPS V2 site you’re thinking of upgrading, deployment, farms
structures and capacity planning.
– developers – if you’re currently building/designing Web based solutions, spend a
couple of days looking at what WSS gives you for free! (it’s just like another framework
within the .NET System space – use what ever parts you want)
– you’re curious about what is WSS V3/MOSS/FormsServices/Excel/Infopath web based
solutions and must be fluent in 3 languages (that part I made up 🙂 – reminded me
of a job description I saw one day)
Check it out – I’ve managed to reserve a couple of seats.
Course details:
When: Jun 25th – Jun 28th
Where: Sydney
Further Details
http://www.breezetraining.com.au/site/Default.aspx?tabid=49
p.s. we run the course in conjunction with Dimension
Data Learning Solutions to give you the best experience possible.
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
The BBC is using Microsoft’s Photosynth 3D imaging software to provide views of prominent British buildings in conjunction with a new TV show, How We Built Britain.
Check it out!, blog post here.
The Photosynth images will be updated with new photos submitted by the public. The BBC is using Flickr for image uploads.
VERY COOL!
Photosynth was one of the technologies that blew me away when I first saw it at last years Microsoft Global Exchange event that I attended in Orlando.
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
From Bill Chesnut – user group organiser…
We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Tuesday 19th June 2007 at 5:30pm
The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Microsoft at Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank Click here for a Map
The topics will be:
Anthony Bettanin, Business Development Manager, RuleBurst
RuleBurst are one of ten global partners in the Microsoft Business Process Alliance. RuleBurst have a world leading natural language rules technology based on authoring rules in Microsoft Word, Excel & Visio. RuleBurst rules can be executed in the RuleBurst inference engine (including SOA and .NET API integration options) or compiled to a Microsoft BizTalk policy to import into the Business Rule Composer for execution in BizTalk. In contrast to BizTalk rule authoring which is intended for technical rather than business users, RuleBurst empowers business users to directly author and maintain their own rules in the Microsoft Office tools they are already familiar with, while retaining the broader advantages of the BizTalk middleware platform for execution of their rules. If you work with BizTalk deployments where non-technical users would like more control over their rules, this demonstration will be of interest to you. For more background information, see the attached one page brochure or Richard Seroter’s blog for a Microsoft perspective on RuleBurst rule authoring.
Bill Chesnut, Senior Consultant, Readify
Changes to the Business Rules Engine in BizTalk 2006.
Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be pizza and drinks supplied
Please rsvp for [email protected] if you plan on attending the meeting.
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
During a web demonstration of the Rule Manager I had to go for a full OS reboot. Not very pretty for a product demonstration. What happened? Not really sure, but it seems that the latest version of Adobe Acrobat (8.1.0) started to lock the generated Rule PDF report.
Few days later I started to get the forced updates from Adobe. Considering I have many VM installations to test all different platforms and configurations, you can imagine I’m not too happy with these forced downloads.
Finally the free PDF viewer started to contain advertisement to FedEx. These ‘convenient’ link buttons are always a big annoyance to me.
It was time to provide an alternative to the PDF format. The latest release of the Rule Manager (1.5.0.17) supports now the Microsoft XPS as an alternative.
The good part of this is that an XPS viewer comes pre-installed on Microsoft Vista. I’m not really sure if it is part of .NET 3.0 framework, but on my XP SP2 box I could use the XPS viewer as well.
Currently the Adobe PDF format is still the default report format, but you can easily change that (and we will store your preferences in your user settings)
The main shortcoming I currently see with the XPS viewer is that you can not rotate a page.
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m fortunate that my company does a summer shutdown during the July 4th week. I plan on taking a day or so of that “free” time off to learn a new technology or go deeper in something that I’ve only touched at a cursory level.
I’ve recently read a few books (below) that were quite […]
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’ll be doing two talks on Team Foundation Server at the upcoming Minnesota Developers Conference (MDC
2007) on August 22nd, 2007. One talk will be on release management (branching
strategies, deployment, etc.) and another on options for using Scrum with TFS.
Should be a great conference all around – four great tracks and what looks to
be a great keynote on BizTalk RFID solutions.
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’ll be doing two talks on Team Foundation Server at the upcoming Minnesota Developers Conference (MDC
2007) on August 22nd, 2007. One talk will be on release management (branching
strategies, deployment, etc.) and another on options for using Scrum with TFS.
Should be a great conference all around – four great tracks and what looks to
be a great keynote on BizTalk RFID solutions.
by community-syndication | Jun 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m currently working on the design of the “fan out” process from our ERP system (SAP) and we’ve had lots of discussions around asynchronous services and exception handling.
The pattern we’ve started with is that BizTalk receives the message from SAP and fans it out using one-way send ports (and web services) to each interested subscriber. […]
by community-syndication | Jun 10, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Is it snowing? Is it
cyclonic rain in Sydney :)- Microsoft have planned a fantastic 4 day course.
Are you looking for developing in Sharepoint/WSS V3.0?
I’m sure you’ll be spending around 60% of your efforts finding and optimal deployment
path…..let’s sort that one out.
Jump onto this offer and register while you can – coming up in a few weeks.
For those of you that are coming – save your questions and let’s get cracking.
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Microsoft Readiness for Partners!!!
>>
MOSS 2007 Developer Intensive – including ECM & WCM
This 4 day intensive workshop gives hands-on solution development with
the 2007 Microsoft%u00ae Office System including Customizing and Extending Enterprise
Content Management Solutions.
This course will teach you:
– how to brand sites WSS sites,
– well as how to extend them with collaboration services, Web Parts, Content Types,
and custom workflows.
– The course will also show you how use and extend other server side components, such
as the Business Data Catalog, Forms Services, Excel Server, and Report Center.
-The goal is to give you an in-depth look and hands-on experience of WCM capabilities
now integrated into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from a developer perspective.
Course Level: 300/400
Location: Sydney – 16 Jul 2007 to 19 Jul 2007
Cost: $715 AUD inc GST
Register now: https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=783945&linvitation
by community-syndication | Jun 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As
I’ve mentioned several times here already, I spent the last week at Microsoft’s TechEd
2007 conference. It was great, but this is the story of finding my way home
from TechEd.
After a very long taxi ride to the airport because of rain on the road, the weather
cleared and I found myself finally at the Orlando Airport. It was 5:45pm, and
our flight was scheduled to take off at 7:50pm, hence boarding at 7:20pm. Well
our flight suffered a 20 minute delay of departure, and then didn’t start boarding
until 8:05pm which meant at 7:38pm I was in an airport terminal of mostly glass walls,
with CNN running the countdown on lots of monitors, as the Space Shuttle Atlantis
took off from Cape Canaveral just 60 miles away.
It was, and is, an ambition of mine to see the shuttle (or it’s replacement) take
off from a distance close enough to see the pad, but this was still a special moment
to stand around with about 150 other people just in that terminal and watch the orbiter
rise on the horizon.
To Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee Archambault and Specialists Patrick Forrester,
Steven Swanson, Danny Olivas, James Reilly and Clayton Anderson as well as Specialist
Sunita Williams whom they will be collecting from the International Space Station,
god speed, good journeys and safe returns. To often we forget these heroes because
for some reason, to the American public, the mystique of space has worn-off.
But at least this tech geek is continually impressed by the heroism displayed by all
those in the Astronaut Corps.
(Photo Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
