by community-syndication | May 5, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Looking to show off your skills in building cloud applications using either .NET or PHP? Like to make a little $$ while you are at it. Well, if you bring your A game, you just might have a shot in the new developer competition that Microsoft is running. You can check out the details on the contest web site, and find links to all the tools you need to get started.
I’m looking forward to seeing some cool ideas come out of this and participating in the community judging.
From the website:
new CloudApp() is a US-based developer challenge for .NET & PHP developers creating cloud applications or services (hereafter "application") on the Azure%u2122 Services Platform. Have your application judged by industry leaders Om Malik and Michael Cote and share your cloud coding skills with other developers. Grand Prize Winners will be announced on stage at Structure 09 and featured on azure.com.
Unfortunately, for those of you not in the US, you read that correctly, and this is only open to folks residing in the 50 states and DC. I’m sure it is for legal reasons, but that definitely limits the amount of cool submissions we’ll be seeing.
by community-syndication | May 5, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I have been contacted by Packt Publishing to post a blog review of Richard Seroter’s book ’SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009’. They have kindly provided me with the electronic copy while a printed copy I ordered a while ago makes its way to New Zealand.
The author Richard Seroter is a several times Microsoft MVP […]
by community-syndication | May 4, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
After an exciting launch of the BizTalk Server 2009 release at RFID Journal Live in Orlando, we are ready to hit the road again and deep dive into the details of this release at TechEd next week May 11 -15 in LA, California.
We will present a generic session on Introducing BizTalk Server 2009 and the product roadmap as well as individual sessions on specific topics of the 2009 release and some popular themes.
We have designed a variety of breakout sessions , interactive sessions and hands on labs, to maximize attendees experience and learning about BizTalk throughout the conference week. Following is the full agenda sorted by dates:
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Breakout Sessions
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SOA304 Introducing the Microsoft Integration Server: BizTalk Server 2009
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Mon 5/11 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Room 150
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Ofer Ashkenazi, Danny Garber
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SOA318 Microsoft BizTalk Goes Mobile: Collecting Physical World Events from Mobile Devices
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Tue 5/12 | 10:15 AM-11:30 AM | Room 408B
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Sudhir Hasbe
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SOA317 Dynamic Messaging with Microsoft BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance v2
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Tue 5/12 | 1:00 PM-2:15 PM | Room 408A
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Brian Loesgen, Syed Rasheed
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ARC306 Connecting Enterprise Applications to Existing Data
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Wed 5/13 | 10:15 AM-11:30 AM | Petree Hall D
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Paul Larsen
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SOA301 Achieving Success with Integration in the Enterprise Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009
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Wed 5/13 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Room 403A
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Mark Beckner
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SOA321 Best Practices for Virtualization of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 with Hyper-V
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Thu 5/14 | 8:30 AM-9:45 AM | Room 408B
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Ewan Fairweather
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SOA305 Enhancing the SAP User Experience: Building Rich Composite Applications in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Using the BizTalk Adapter Pack
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Thu 5/14 | 1:00 PM-2:15 PM | Room 408B
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Chris Kabat, Naresh Koka
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SOA312 Microsoft BizTalk: Application Lifecycle Management and Productivity Enhancements
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Fri 5/15 | 9:00 AM-10:15 AM | Room 403B
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Stephen Kaufman
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SOA205 Radio Frequency Identification: Affecting End Users, Online, ERP to Plant Floor
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Fri 5/15 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Theatre (Room 411)
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Winson Woo
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SOA04-INT Deep Dive with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Development Platform
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Wed 5/13 | 4:30 PM-5:45 PM | Blue Thr 2
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Stephen Kaufman
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SOA06-INT Integrating with Partners: Learn to Develop with EDI/AS2 in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009
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Thu 5/14 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Blue Thr 2
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Mark Beckner
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Hands on Labs
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SOA05-HOL Microsoft BizTalk Server: Building and Deploying Your First BizTalk Server Solution
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SOA01-HOL Microsoft BizTalk Server: Analyzing Business Activity Data with Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
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SOA02-HOL Extending BizTalk Server 2009 BAM Capabilities through Representation State Transfer (REST)
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SOA03-HOL Microsoft BizTalk Server: Capturing Data with Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
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SOA04-HOL Connecting Microsoft .NET Applications to Legacy IBM Mainframe and Midrange Systems Using Microsoft Host Integration Server 2009
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Come join us at the BizTalk booths in the Blue section of the Technical Learning Center. Get into follow-up and deep dive conversations with our speakers and members of the product team while watching compelling demos.
You may even try your luck to win cool prizes in one of the raffles that we will have throughout the week!
In the meantime you can find a wealth of new information on our refreshed BizTalk website.
See you at TechEd!!!
The BizTalk team.
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by community-syndication | May 4, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Hi,
Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office system 2007 and the list of packages available can be found here:
http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/23/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-available-today.aspx
Enjoy!
by community-syndication | May 4, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
File this under “I didn’t know that!” Did you know that if you add multiple BizTalk binding files (which all target the same environment) to an application, that they ALL get applied during installation? Let’s talk about this.
So I have a simple application with a few messaging ports. I then generated four distinct binding files […]
by community-syndication | May 4, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I ran into an issue with bm.exe this morning.
Here’s the error I saw when running the bm.exe depoy-all command on a spreadsheet.
Deploying View… ERROR: The BAM deployment failed.
Encountered error while executing command on SQL Server “MyMachineName”.
String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated.
I ran SQL Profiler the next time I executed this (as well as adding the -Trace:On parameter to the deploy-all command which _never_ seems to add any additional information. After a little bit of sleuthing it looked like this was the last statement executed before profiler showed sql statements that were deleting BAM tables, sprocs, etc.
— Register activity in RTA metadata table
INSERT [dbo].[bam_Metadata_RealTimeAggregations]
(
CubeName,
RtaName,
RTAWindow,
Timeslice,
ConnectionString
)
VALUES
(
N’CreateOESIView’,
N’CreateOESIPT’,
3600, — RTA window defaults to 60 hours
60, — Time slice defaults to 60 mins
N'[HugeStringHere]’
The ConnectionString column’s max size is 3600 and you guessed it, my [HugeStringHere] value was larger than that. The string was actually not just a connection string and included CREATE CUBE and other statements in it.
It turns out that the PivotTable that I created in Excel for this particular view was too big – as in it had too much stuff in it (Dimensions, Measures). I created a smaller pivot table with fewer Dimensions in it and then the activity deployed without problems.
by community-syndication | May 4, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As you know, I’m always up for a little friendly competition I’m excited to announce that today, we are kicking off the first Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge.
Over the next two months, developers will have the opportunity to show off what they can do on the Azure Services Platform. We’re looking for innovate apps developed with the user experience in mind that are applicable to the real-world and highlight new opportunities cloud computing brings to developers.
There are a couple of surprise twists to this challenge. The first twist is this contest will have three winners – best .NET application, a top PHP application, and one more we’ll talk about in just a bit. For the .NET application category, we want to see a great .NET application running on Windows Azure using ASP.NET or Silverlight to incorporate additional Azure services such as .NET Services and Live Services. Incorporate other Microsoft, 3rd party services, or other cloud services and author a unique web, mobile, or desktop application.
For the PHP contest category running on Windows Azure, we want to see a PHP application taking interoperability to the next level by integrating with other Azure services, 3rd party web services and APIs, and services provided by other cloud providers.
The second twist to this contest is that we’re really excited that the winner of the .NET and PHP application categories will be judged by industry leaders Om Malik, founder and senior writer for the GigaOM Network, and Michael Cote, IT Management Lead analyst at RedMonk. The winners chosen by the judges will be announced at Structure 09 on June 25.
And now the third and final twist We are inviting the community of web and software developers to decide the third overall community winner via online voting. This winner will be announced on June 30.
But before you head off to create your masterpiece, make sure you check out www.Newcloudapp.com for official rules, registration info, important deadlines and to learn what money, fame, and glory are in store for three creative developers J.
Expect to see some chatter about this on Twitter. Search for “#newCloudApp” as developers start sharing their creations online.
Good luck!
by community-syndication | May 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
The BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 was released to manufacturing and is now generally available .
For BizTalk 2009 users (except branch edition), the Adapter Pack 2.0 license comes free and can be downloaded from the volume licensing site.
Biztalk 2006 R2 users can get the Biztalk Adapter Pack if they have Software Assurance for Biztalk.
Others will have to buy it seperately.
The prequsite for this is the WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2. A 120 day evaluation version of the Adapter Pack 2.0 is also now available . The below table summarizes all the links you need to get started with the Adapter Pack 2.0 .
Product |
WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2(pre-req for BAP 2.0) |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147367 |
Adapter Pack 2.0 120 day Evaluation Version |
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=76736ba7-3c05-4436-9353-1c33f9005194&displaylang=en |
SQL Adapter SKU Download(Can use if you have a valid BizTalk license) |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147379 |
Documentation and Samples |
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MSDN Location of Adapter Pack 2.0 docs |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=149364 |
Download location for individual CHMs in Adapter Pack 2.0 |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147355 |
Download location for Adapter Pack 2.0 Installation Guide |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147364 |
Download location for SQL Adapter Installation Guide and CHM |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147377 |
Download location for all the samples for Adapter Pack 2.0 |
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=145144 |
The Forum to ask any questions or look for answers is here . This version also includes the Customer Experience Improvement Program. Do turn it on so that we get some valuable feedback that can be used for future improvements.
by community-syndication | May 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I have recently attended to a presentation on .NET and SQL Server certifications hosted at Datacom by the Auckland SQL User Group.
The presenter, James Hippolite, gave a great overview of the current .NET and SQL Server certifications available, and some insight into the experience of taking a Microsoft exam to those unfamiliar with the […]
by community-syndication | May 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
More Variation support, more standard document support, more bug fixes and an upgrade
checker (to make sure you can apply SP2)
Should keep those sites happier for longer
Details from http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/23/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-available-today.aspx
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system available today!
We’re pleased to announce the release of all languages for Service Pack 2 for the
2007 Microsoft Office System, the 2007 Microsoft Office servers, and Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0. As promised, this post contains a list of the products that are patched
by SP2 with their corresponding knowledge base articles, information on how to obtain
the packages, and links to additional SP2 resources. We hope you’ll find this to be
one of the best service packs produced by the Office team ever!
How to obtain SP2
Recommended Method: Microsoft Update
We recommend using Microsoft Update to
apply SP2. Microsoft Update’s detection will determine the products and languages
you have installed and update your machine all at once.
Optional Method: The Download Center
If you choose not to use Microsoft Update, the SP2 packages are available for download
from the Microsoft Download Center. Please click here to
find links to the downloads.
