PDC is here again! This year my friend and colleague Don Demsak and Andrew Brust will be presenting a business intelligence (BI) workshop covers some of the fundamental patterns and techniques that can help developers to build modern BI applications in…(read more)
Please see this blog post for detail.
The AppFabric Team
Service Pack 1 for BizTalk 2006 R2 is now released as beta, and includes a number of hotfixes.
(See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974563 )
SP1 also includes a new feature, namely the ability to configure different certificates for signing outgoing AS2 messages for different parties.
Prior to SP1 for R2, we could only set one certificate for signing outgoing AS2 messages per BizTalk group.
After installation of SP1, you will see in the AS2 party properties a new tab, where you can override the group certificate.
If you do not choose to override the group certificate, the group certificate will be used by default.
We are already describing how to use this in R2 with SP1. See the topic ” To configure a certificate for signing outgoing AS2 messages for a specific party” in the R2 documentation.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb728096(BTS.20).aspx
We are currently working on porting this feature to BizTalk 2009.
Manuel Stern
A project team recently asked me if they could use the BizTalk BRE to validate incoming data. I asked what sort of validation we were talking about, and it came down to four areas:
Setting default values when the incoming fields were empty
Doing look-ups based on existing data and populating related fields
Doing concatenation of fields
Catching any […]
I found what I would call a bug with the BizTalk Mapper (does anyone dare call it a feature?). Let me show a simple version of the problem I encountered:
I created a BizTalk project that contains a map that calls an external assembly (in my case part of the same solution), such as:
My external assembly […]
Some time ago, back on the 20th of November, Richard Seroter visited BizTalk User Group Sweden and talked about BizTalk, SOA and leveraging the cloud. His talks are now live on channel9, part 1 and part 2. A short blogpost explaining the talk is here.
It was great fun to have Richard visit, although some (most) of the laughter and clapping that your hear on the videos is really due to me making a pantomime Richard imitation outside of the frame of the video and should not be credited to him 😉
Getting the videos published wasn’t lightning fast due to some unfortunate circumstances and personnel changes. Hopefully that will be all ironed out by November 26th when Charles Young swings by us again, this time to talk about the Business Rules Framework. I’m sure it’ll be a classic. Take the chance to say “I was there”. There are still slots left. Sign up here.
Should you happen to pass by Sweden and have an interesting Connected Systems topic that you would like to talk about feel free to drop us a line.
Or as Richard commented his visit on his blog through this sentence taken totally out of it’s context 😉 “If you get the chance to visit this user group as an attendee or speaker, don’t hesitate to do so.”
Here’s the background: I love using fully qualified domain names (FQDN) for my IIS sites when doing some sweet EPiServer-development. Like this: local.<customer>.website.
Like so in…
Daniel Berg’s blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk
Well some people are still not convinced BizTalk is here to stay, today some very nice information popped up in bloglines (my favorite RSS reader) about the futur of BizTalk. Almost every new technology MS has released are mentioned, to name a few: WCF…(read more)
The big seven factors that often come about when negotiating an SLA with a cloud provider are:
Privileged User Access
– Know as much as you can about those who touch your data
Regulatory Compliance
– Ensure the provider is willing to undergo an audit
Data Location
– Ensure legal privacy standards are upheld by location
Data Segregation
– Identify the need for encryption, or providing some separation of your data from the data of others in the cloud
Recovery
– Ascertain what will happen when the service or data is unavailable, and how long a complete restore will take
Investigative Support
– What capabilities and support does the provider offer to investigate illegal activities
Long-term viability
– What happens if the provider is acquired
In the instance of multiple datacenters, however, it’s oftentimes unclear as to exactly where your data resides, and the privacy standards set forth by the cloud provider.
Microsoft has just released a whitepaper titled Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era. In it Microsoft sets forth ten guiding privacy principles by which policies surrounding privacy in the cloud are directed. The whitepaper also addresses legal and regulatory issues as part of Microsoft’s foray into Cloud Computing.
The whitepaper may be found here.
If you have been wondering why we have been quiet for so long – well we have been busy lately and for a good reason – within a week from now we are going to present some very exciting sessions and demos at the Professional Developers Conference in LA.
The first session will provide a sneak peak to BizTalk’s future with a demo of some cool innovations that will dramatically enhance BizTalk developer productivity and will make BizTalk more appealing to .NET developers using WF and WCF technologies.
Following are the details of the BizTalk sessions:
Speaker: Balasubramanian Sriram in 502A on Tuesday at 3:00 PM
Abstract: Learn how BizTalk Server 2009 lets you focus on writing the code to do the hardcore business logic and let BizTalk take care of moving the data. Hear how your development skills with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) work seamlessly with the powerful integration platform of BizTalk. Find out how BizTalk aligns with the Microsoft application server in the longer term.
Session title: Connecting Applications with the Microsoft BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus
Speakers: Syed Rasheed, Dmitri Ossipov in 515B on Tuesday at 4:30 PM
Abstract: See how the BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) enables you to build services that can be quickly located and connected, whether they live behind the firewall or in the cloud, without creating a brittle point-to-point link. Learn how to dramatically improve the service lifecycle of development, testing, and deployment by using the powerful messaging, routing, and transformation capabilities of the BizTalk ESB in your solution today, and get a glimpse of future plans for BizTalk service bus/pub-sub pattern.
Additionally we will host the following interesting chalk talk:
Title: BizTalk and StreamInsight: A Better Together Story (Session 3 – Theatre Chalk Talk on Tuesday at 1:00 pm)
Speaker: Mark Simms
Abstract: SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces StreamInsight, providing a powerful platform for developing and deploying complex event processing (CEP) applications. Come and learn how StreamInsight can be used to enable new capabilities in BizTalk for providing real-time monitoring and analytics for infrastructure and business events at scale.
Also at PDC we are hosting the following two BizTalk labs:
Last but not least stop by the BizTalk demo booth in the Microsoft Products Pavilion if you want to chat with members of the BizTalk product team and other BizTalk experts. We will be presenting cool demos and would love to help you figure out how to leverage the most of BizTalk Server regardless of your level of knowledge of the product.
You can also meet us at the “Ask the Experts” session on Wednesday 5:30 – 7:00 PM.
See you next week,
The BizTalk team.