In the past I publish an article about “An unhandled exception (‘<System.StackOverflowException>’) occurred in BTSNTSvc.exe” with the promise that I would explain in detail how I was able to debug the .NET stack using the Microsoft Symbol Server to obtain debug symbol files, and now is the time . Step 1: Prepare the environment for […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Introduction Over the past couple of days I have been doing some diagnostics with a partner to setup SSO over a SAMLHTTP POST using ADFS. The partner is using the SAML ComponentSpace component. An important part of the diagnostics has been collecting the HTTP POST trace and sending this to the partner for diagnostics. This […]
Blog Post by: clineer
It has been a while ago I did a series of posts on monitoring tools for BizTalk solutions. Back then I discussed the following tools:
And now there is a new tool made by Saravana Kumar, who I met last MVP summit in person, called BizTalk360. During bus ride from summit back to hotel he demoed me this monitoring tool and I was impressed by functionality and look and feel. Finally there is way for administrators to have a tool similar to administration console, but now web based. The other tools also have a web interface and I still cannot understand why Microsoft hasn’t thought of bringing administration console also in web version (like SCOM 2007 R2!). BizTalk360 is feature rich and I suggest to look at it.
I am impressed by work Saravana has put into it and provided the tool with such a nice UI. User experience in my view is an important factor for a tool to be adopted.I definitely recommend developers and administrators to have a look at this tool and see if it fit for purpose in their environments.It can be download easily from the site after registering. Installation and configuration is easy and straight forward.
Above you have a screenshot of BizTalk360 in my VM, a single box installation of BizTalk Server 2010. In near future I hope a do a new comparison between current offerings for monitoring BizTalk solutions.
The content from the BizTalk training course from Microsoft has now been publically released. You can download this video content and the VMs for learning BizTalk 2010 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=38c2ccfc-510c-4627-a33c-95e9d19f3478. Enjoy!
Blog Post by: clineer
Last week I presented two sessions at Microsoft Teched USA. This year my sessions were focus on Real World Windows Workflow Foundation and WCF Patterns. Do I like challenges or what? 😉 Well, both sessions received were jammed packed and received an amazing…(read more)
Blog Post by: gsusx
All,
If in case you haven’t noticed Kevin Smith has released BizUnit 4.0 yesterday. Look like Kevin was hard at work during the weekend. It’s a stable release after an alpha and beta phase.
Go get it at http://bizunit.codeplex.com/releases/view/66850
BizUnit 4.0 introduced some fundamental changes around writing coded tests and XML tests. XML tests are now based on XAML.
Nandri!
Saravana
Thanks to everyone attending my TechEd session on Thursday. You can find the scripts I was running here (sorry I didn’t put them up earlier). Let me know if you have any trouble.
If you didn’t attend, you can view the session online here.
Good luck
//Mikael
Blog Post by: wmmihaa
I know I am late (probably will be the last) in taking BizTalk 2006 R2 (70-241) exam (Released in October 2009) and will be now retired on June 30 2011 with BizTalk 2006 (70-235) which I passed in June 2008. So I am heads up with BizTalk 2010 (70-595) exam which just released on March […]
Blog Post by: Abdul Rafay
A little while back I did a blog post that showed how to query and create Dynamics CRM 2011 records from BizTalk Server. This post will demonstrate how to handle more complex scenarios including creating fields that use option sets (list of values) or entity references (fields that point to another record). To start with, […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
One of the strengths of BizTalk 360 is its fine grained authorization module. It allows administrators to set fine grained authorization policy to users.
The below screen shots shows the various areas you can either grant or deny access to the user profiles. As soon as the user login, he can check his authorization level right on the home dashboard.
In this article, we will take a look at how a super user can restrict an user to access only selected applications in the environment. In our test environment there are 5 BizTalk applications deployed as shown in the below picture, in addition to the default BizTalk.System and BizTalk Application 1.
The task we are going to show here is, Mike Watson is one of the application support person and he only need access to LoanProcessorApplication and MortgageProcessorApplication. To accomplish this task, a super user (administrator) will access BizTalk 360, and click on the "setting" link at the top right hand corner, which will bring the settings home screen as shown below.
Depending on whether its he is going to modify the existing user or assigning a new user, he will select one of the options under "User Access Policy". For this demo, we are going to select "Add New" which will bring the below screen.
The administrator can then enter the name of the domain and the user name (which is Mike Watson in our case) and select the applications (example LoanProcessorApplication and MortgageProcessorApplication) from the list and save the settings.
Now, when Mike Watson access BizTalk 360, on the home screen he can check his rights. As shown in the below picture, he is restricted to access only LoanProcessorApplication and MortgageProcessorApplication. And he also got very restricted access in the environment, he is not granted permission to access other parts of the system like BAM, Topology, Advanced Event Viewer etc.
His object navigator is going to look as shown below. As you can see one two applications are listed for his access and other parts of the system are not visible.
Summary:
Fine grained authorization brings lot of advantages for the enterprise. The foremost reason is, security, the users can only view and operate (if granted) on applications (and suspended instances) they got access to. Also on the other hand it makes life easy for application support people, they are hidden away from unnecessary things, which are not related to their task.
Social:
twitter: @biztalk360
facebook: http://facebook.com/biztalk360
support: http://getsatisfaction.com/biztalk360
Note: If in case you haven’t noticed BizTalk 360 is a web based (RIA) application, built using Microsoft SilverLight. The above screens are accessible via browser. There is no necessity to install anything on the client PC except Microsoft SilverLight.
Nandri!
Saravana