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
As a continuation of my Keyed Cumulative Sum post, where I did a key based summation using an xslt call template in a BizTalk map I got two main points of feedback worth repeating and showing.
Questions
Answers
This will make the outlook of the xslt instead look like this (code is edited to improve readability):
<xsl:template name="OutputSum"> <xsl:param name="param1" /> <xsl:param name="param2" /> <xsl:element name="Compensation_Amount"> <xsl:variable name="SumOfNodes" select="//row[Compensation_SubCode=$param1 and
Compensation_Level=$param2]/Compensation_Amount)"/> <xsl:variable name="FormattedSum" select="format-number($SumOfNodes,'0.00')"/> <xsl:value-of select="translate($FormattedSum, '.', ',')" /> </xsl:element> </xsl:template>
The use of several variables are for maintainability only, and are not required. You could jam it all into the value-of select statement if you really want to.
/Johan
Blog Post by: Johan Hedberg
Thanks to everyone attending my session on integration with
Office365 and on-prem applications.
All demos can be downloaded from here: http://blogical.se/files/folders/downloads/entry25152.aspx
I recommended you to start downloading the AppFabric SDK CTP,
in which you’ll find the ClientAccessPolicyPublisher sample I was running in
the last sample: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d89640fc-c552-446e-aead-b1e0d940f31b
Good luck and let me know if you need any
additional help.
Blog Post by: wmmihaa
Mexia is delivering the new BizTalk Server 2010 Developer training in Brisbane the week of June 20th. So if you have been waiting for BizTalk Server 2010 developer training this is your chance. The new course material follows closely to the previous Microsoft training for 2006, but has been update to 2010 and has modules for WCF send and receive adapter and a new BizTalk Patterns module. We have a discounted early bird registration through the 3rd of June. For details and registration please go to: https://bizdevbris0511.eventarc.com/event/view/3009/biztalk-2010-developer-training—brisbane. For any additional information or question please contact me.
A few weeks ago I did the video about how we were testing what happens inside BizTalk by using the CAT Team Logging Framework and the ETW trace events and then testing the information coming out from our tracing to prove what was happening inside BizTalk.
Ive updated the codeplex project so that the code is a little easier for people to use and is packaged better. Also the source code is now available in codeplex and there is some additional documentation. Note that it now works slightly differently to in the video but performs much better.
The original video about the idea is on the following link
http://www.cloudcasts.net/ViewWebcast.aspx?webcastid=2521028145037920619
The codeplex project is on the following link:
http://btsloggingeventsinbi.codeplex.com/
Dallas TechFest 2011 has opened the Call For Speakers at our new website. In order to submit sessions you must register on the website, complete your speaker profile, and then you will be able to add sessions. We expect the end the call for speakers in early June, so please submit soon!
Dallas TechFest 2011 is a multi-day, multi-disciplinary technology conference focused on software development and IT professionals. It will be held on August 12th and 13th 2011 at the University of Texas at Dallas. We are interested in anything related to these subjects as talks, regardless of technology. We have had talks covering everything from iPhone to Java, .NET to Android.
Twitter Tag : #dtf11
Twitter Account : @DallasTechFest
Blog Post by: Tim