by community-syndication | Nov 21, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m very happy to announce that I am authoring Tallan’s new book on SQL Server 2012! The full title, “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012” will technically be published by O’Reilly, yet it will be branded as a Microsoft Press book, and will feature Tallan’s logo on the front cover. O’Reilly recently acquired MS Press, but […]
Blog Post by: Lenni Lobel
by community-syndication | Nov 21, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
The demand for webinars about Moesion keeps growing and tomorrow we will be hosting a new one( http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1030856 ) to show you how to use Moesion to manage your Windows Server infrastructure from your smartphone…(read more)
Blog Post by: gsusx
by community-syndication | Nov 21, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Last couple of week I written a few wiki article for TechNet Wiki a place, where content is generated by community about Microsoft technologies for the community. I very much like the concept and glad I was able to contribute (see my interview on Wiki). Below you will find a list of my ten completed wiki articles on BizTalk:
- First the featured article BizTalk Server 2010 and discusses BizTalk and shows all resource on its features.
- Second a list on all available BizTalk Server 2010 community tools in BizTalk Server 2010 – Tools.
- Third article is on BizTalk Server 2010 Adapter Pack an enhancement of previous adapter pack 2.0.
- Fourth article is a short overview on BizTalk Server 2010 and created before I written complete article on BizTalk and its features.
- Fifth article on BizTalk databases as a survival type of article listing all relevant resources on how to maintain healthy BizTalk environment with focus on BizTalk databases.
- Subsequently I written another article listing resources for recovery of BizTalk itself not its databases, but this article goes hand in hand with the previous fifth article.
- Seventh article is a BizTalk beginners guide listing all resources for a beginner and a little outline how he/she should proceed.
- Subsequently I also written a preparation guide for 70-595 exam that can be read in conjunction with beginners guide.
- Ninth article talks about monitoring tools for BizTalk and lists all alternatives to SCOM.
- Final tenth article is a collection of resources for BAM and is again a survival type of article.
I hope you will find these articles useful and feel free to edit them (correct, add, enhance) as that is intention of wiki’s. I will be working on next couple of articles in near future, which will be more in depth BizTalk ones.
Cheers!
by community-syndication | Nov 21, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
My company Ordina will host next Dutch BizTalk User Group Meeting. This event we will have four speakers and agenda will be:
- Steef-Jan Wiggers (Ordina) – “BizTalk Server Adapter 2010 Integration”
- Jeroen Boiten (GasUnie) – “BizTalk at Gas Unie”
- Jasper Defesche (Axon Olympus) – “BizTalk and Dynamics AX”
- Jeroen Hendriks (Axon Olympus) – “Robust BizTalk DTAP”
It will be all Dutch talks and if you able to attend you can sign up here.
by community-syndication | Nov 17, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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As announced on the Windows Azure blog, “Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games” version 1.1 was just release.
Here is the architecture diagram that can be found in the documentation of the toolkit, once installed:
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Comme annonc%u00e9 sur le blog am%u00e9ricain de Windows Azure, la version 1.1 du “Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games” vient de sortir.
Je reprends ici la diagramme d’architecture qui est dans la documentation de la bo%u00eete %u00e0 outils, une fois install%u00e9e:
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Let’s have a tour of this toolkit in this video (sorry, I speak French in this video): |
Je vous propose d’en faire le tour en un petit quart d’heure et en images: |
And here is a screenshot of the Tankster game on the Internet, which is built with the toolkit and available on Windows Azure: |
et enfin une copie d’%u00e9cran de Tankster disponible sur Internet, construit avec cette bo%u00eete %u00e0 outils et h%u00e9berg%u00e9 sur Windows Azure: |
Benjamin
Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE
by community-syndication | Nov 16, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
BizTalk developers have often felt the need to unit test any dotnet components called from within an orchestration. However, messages passed to dotnet components are of type XLANGMessage and this class is an abstract class, therefore rendered useless when it comes to initialising these types in your unit tests. The way around this is to […]
Blog Post by: DipeshA
by community-syndication | Nov 15, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Recently, I came across a very odd issue in CRM 4.0. This issue popped up because of an improper deploy/refresh in conjunction with the removal of an entity between test and production servers. It was very out of the ordinary, and I had not seen anything like it before.
The Issue at Hand
This issue was that […]
Blog Post by: rlanzilli
by community-syndication | Nov 15, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
So far in this blog series we’ve been looking at how Enterprise Integration Patterns apply to cloud integration scenarios. We’ve seen that a Shared Database Pattern works well when you have common data (and schema) and multiple consumers who want consistent access. The Remote Procedure Invocation Pattern is a good fit when one system desires […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
by community-syndication | Nov 15, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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This video shows a Windows Azure VIP Swap (VIP = Virtual IP Address), which is one of the means to deploy a version n+1 of a web site while version n is live. |
Cette vid%u00e9o montre un %u00e9change d’adresses IP virtuelles qui est un moyen de d%u00e9ployer une version n+1 en production, alors que la version n est en train de tourner. |
In this demo, |
Dans cette d%u00e9mo, |
– version n is deployed to the production slot. Visually, it has a white border. |
– la version n est d%u00e9ploy%u00e9e dans l’emplacement de production. Visuellement, elle comporte une bordure blanche. |
– version n+1 has additional modules (which cannot be seen here) and also a yellow border for demo purposes. It is deployed in the staging slot. |
– La version n+1 a des modules additionnels (ce qu’on ne voit pas ici) ainsi qu’une bordure jaune %u00e0 des fins de d%u00e9monstration. Elle est d%u00e9ploy%u00e9e dans l’emplacement interm%u00e9diaire. |
– after seeing both versions of the site (note that staging slot has an Azure generated and hard to guess URL), a VIP swap is initiated |
– Apr%u00e8s avoir vu les deux versions du site (on notera que l’emplacement interm%u00e9diairea une URL g%u00e9n%u00e9r%u00e9e par Azure et difficile %u00e0 deviner), un %u00e9change d’adresses IP virtuelle est initi%u00e9 |
– after a few seconds, navigating to the production URL shows version n+1 instead of version n. |
– Apr%u00e8s quelques secondes, on navigue vers l’URL de production qui montre la version n+1 au lieu de la version n. |
Benjamin
Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE
by community-syndication | Nov 11, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m currently working on an application for a un-named organisation. As part of this, I need to export files for processing in the Australian defacto standard for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) files – the ABA format.
I’m using BizTalk of course, and it can handle this weird format, however all I had was the sample file, which for a fixed width flat file is not great.
I found the format documented here: http://ddkonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/aba-bank-payment-file-format-australian.html
Apparently the banks have all agreed on this format, which is firstly Ancient in origin and format, and design Highlighting that it’s a flat file, of fixed field lengths..
If this was re-factored into a XML format, it would be much easier to generate, highly flexible, and they could expose an interface, via a simple web service to accept this format. All authentication could be done via a secure https web service, with encryption on the web service.
Let’s understand that this is used to effect payments from a company’s bank account to individuals, this is highly sensitive and needs to be secured.
This format of this file is NOT encrypted in anyway; it is open, readable, and modifiable. There are no check digits, no certificate of authentication or any of the modern features you would expect in such a file.
By Exposing a WCF endpoint, which had authentication via certificate, using an https/transport encryption/security would handle some of this requirement; the rest is in the detail of the message itself.
Currently what happens is we output this file to the file system, and then someone picks it up… and processes it…
If a WCF or web service endpoint was open by the bank, we could securely communicate with this, and send the payment file, someone could log onto their secure interface and approve the transfers still, however there would be zero chance of someone modifying this file before it got there….
Before we got involved, this was just popped onto the file system somewhere, generated via a different method
I am not one to mess around when it comes to security, and this smells to me. The banks need to provide an interface. I’ll happily build it, securely and flexible enough for all platforms to communicate with it.