My Latest Article: Taking IT System Management to the Cloud

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’ve been a fan of the Cloud Times for some time now. Last week, they published one of my articles about the movement of taking IT systems management to the Cloud. Check it out here: http://cloudtimes.org/taking-it-system-management-to-the-cloud/…(read more)
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BizTalk Server Roadmap the vNext: BizTalk Server 2010 R2

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Great news for the BizTalk community, after many speculations about the end of BizTalk after Tony Meleg session (here) and with the upcoming integration features of Azure, Microsoft just release today the announce of Microsoft BizTalk Server vNext (see roadmap) . For now this version is called: BizTalk Server 2010 R2 (you can see the […]
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Learn Windows Azure for free with the Emulator and the training Kit | Apprendre Windows Azure gratuitement avec l’émulateur et le kit d’apprentissage

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

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Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 | Installer Visual Studio 2010 SP1

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

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Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE

Install the Windows Azure SDK for PHP with Windows Azure SDK 1.6 | Installer le SDK Windows Azure pour PHP avec le SDK Windows Azure 1.6

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Error: Source: WshShell.RegRead
Description: Invalid root in registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\ServiceHosting\v1.0\Inst
allPath".

()\AzurePhp\library\Microsoft\WindowsAzure\CommandLine\Package.php

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\ServiceHosting\v1.0\InstallPath

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\ServiceHosting\v1.6\InstallPath

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New kid on the block: My BizTalk Processing Monitor

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Since quite some time I am developing a BizTalk monitoring tool, called BizTalk Processing Monitor (or BPM). This tool is different from most other BizTalk monitoring tools in that it does not monitor end points, but it gives (near) realtime insight if messages flow through your BizTalk Group. If there are any interruptions, you get warned. To retrieve this kind of information, BPM uses the Tracking database.
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Diagram View – here you can add a picture from your system and define which information you want to see

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For January my collegue Steef-Jan Wiggers, Saravana and me are planning a talk at Ordina, Nieuwegein in the Netherlands about BizTalk monitoring and the available tools. This talk will be part of Ordina’s ‘Innoveer jij mee’ series (Innovate wih us). For now I’ll just show you a couple of screen dumps from BPM, but for a live demonstration I hope to meet you in January! Details will follow when available.

In the mean time: if you are interested in the capabilities of this tool or just want to know how it works, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line!
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Warning Levels legend – When, for example,  it took longer than 60 minutes to receive a certain messagetype, the so-called Tracker in the Diagram View will turn red

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Throttling View – Your Hosts and their instances are auto discovered. In case BizTalk is throttling, you get a warning.

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Performance Counters by Throttling State – this screen shows more information about the throttling related performance counters

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BizTalk Server 2010 R2

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s integration and connectivity server and is one of the most deployed integration server in the industry. BizTalk Server 2010 was released just over a year ago. Today we are happy to share details on what customers can expect from the next release: BizTalk Server 2010 R2.

BizTalk Server 2010 R2 will focus on three primary themes:

• Platform Support – Supporting new and current server and development platforms
• Improved B2B – Aligning with industry standards and continuing to invest in performance improvements
• Ready for the Cloud – Enabling customers to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing

BizTalk Server 2010 R2 will be delivered approximately 6 months following the release of Windows Server 8. Release timing for Windows Server 8 is yet to be announced and will be disclosed by the Windows Server team in the future.

In addition to the investments we are making in BizTalk Server 2010 R2, we will continue the tradition of providing regular cumulative updates on a quarterly basis. These include updates to comply with Line-Of-Business (LOB) systems, schema changes, accelerator certifications, and bug fixes.

We believe that with this release we continue to deliver a mature, reliable and stable integration server that honors the trust of the thousands of customers who run their mission critical business processes on BizTalk Server.

Below is the detailed view of the features we are releasing:

* Release dates for these products have not been disclosed yet

For additional details on BizTalk Server and purchasing options please contact your local Microsoft Account Manager or visit our website.

The BizTalk Server Team.

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Finally MCTS again!

by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Earlier this year Microsoft retired the old certification for BizTalk 2006 and so I was no longer a Technology Specialist.

Well I finally got around to it, took the test, and scored a healthy 91%.

I have received some questions as to how you should prepare for the exam and based on that I have a couple pointers:

If you are an experienced BizTalk developer you really don’t need to study.

This is not a bad thing. It just shows that the exam is made to show that you have working experience and if you do; you will pass.

Read an excellent book

The unequivocal one is of course BizTalk 2010 Unleashed. Use it to read up on things you feel you don’t know; like perhaps the BRE or Wcf-adapters or BAM or Orchestrations or EDI or

Based on what you have used the last year, you should skip those parts and read up on the parts you have not used. If you spent the better part of 2011 developing integrations using advanced maps and Wcf; read up on BAM and orchestrations.

See how others have prepared

The ever productive Steef-Jan Wiggers has written a TechNet Wiki called BizTalk Server 2010 Exam 70-595 Preparation. It is about resources that is available for free from Microsoft. It comes highly recommended.

Buy beer

Do you know someone that is a MCTS for BizTalk 2010? If so; you can invite him/her to some kind of “after work event”. Buy the person some good beers and then start asking nicely about the exam.

As an MCTS you get special training, and these special pills, so you can’t remember specifics about the exam. We can however talk generally about it: What skills are measured? How much is there about BRE compared to other topics? Is it hard?

Just saying

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Deploying Drupal 7 on Windows Azure | Déploiement de Drupal 7 sur Windows Azure

by community-syndication | Dec 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

CREATE LOGIN drupalLogin WITH PASSWORD = ‘BVvvgdjs65’

CREATE USER drupalUser FOR LOGIN drupalLogin WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = dbo
GO
EXEC sp_addrolemember N’db_owner’, N’drupalUser’
GO

• SQL Azure:
  • server=j2f2uoqrmd.database.windows.net,
  • database=durpal
  • username=drupalLogin,
  • password=BVvvgdjs65
• Windows Azure Storage:
  • drupal111205a
  • key= QQ9TTO5oCjnWZxcMW/pegWHJccKCOHW9WaeRZbNK5vGPAwbhle3AbQCynf6sVmWAuCqjWPL45d5iQWnyFvFUfg==

https://github.com/downloads/Interop-Bridges/Windows-Azure-PHP-Scaffolders/drupal.zip

C:\Temp\scaffold-drupal.cmd

set here=%~dp0%

scaffolder run -s=”%here%Drupal.phar” -out=”C:\Temp\Drupal01″ -DiagnosticsConnectionString=”DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=drupal111205a;AccountKey=QQ9TTO5oCjnWZxcMW/pegWHJccKCOHW9WaeRZbNK5vGPAwbhle3AbQCynf6sVmWAuCqjWPL45d5iQWnyFvFUfg==” -sql_azure_database=drupal -sql_azure_username=drupalLogin@j2f2uoqrmd -sql_azure_password=BVvvgdjs65 -sql_azure_host=j2f2uoqrmd.database.windows.net -sync_account=drupal111205a -sync_key=QQ9TTO5oCjnWZxcMW/pegWHJccKCOHW9WaeRZbNK5vGPAwbhle3AbQCynf6sVmWAuCqjWPL45d5iQWnyFvFUfg==
pause

https://github.com/downloads/Interop-Bridges/Windows-Azure-File-System-Durability-Plugin/FileSystemDurabilityPlugin-v1.1.zip

C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.6\bin\plugins

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceConfiguration serviceName="PhpOnAzure" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration" osFamily="2" osVersion="*">
  <Role name="WebRole">
    <Instances count="2" />
    <ConfigurationSettings>
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" />

      <Setting name="sql_azure_database" value="drupal" />
      <Setting name="sql_azure_username" value="drupalLogin@j2f2uoqrmd" />
      <Setting name="sql_azure_password" value="BVvvgdjs65" />
      <Setting name="sql_azure_host" value="j2f2uoqrmd.database.windows.net" />
      <Setting name="db_prefix" value="" />
      <Setting name="update_free_access" value="FALSE" />
      <Setting name="drupal_hash_salt" value="Some unique value" />
      <Setting name="base_url" value="" />
      
      <!-- For RDP access. Commented by default -->
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.Enabled" value="true" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.AccountUsername" value="RDAdmin" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.AccountEncryptedPassword" value="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" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.AccountExpiration" value="2012-12-07T23:59:59.0000000+01:00" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteForwarder.Enabled" value="true" />
      </ConfigurationSettings>
    <!-- Certificate for RDP access. Commented by default --> 
    <Certificates>
      <Certificate name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.PasswordEncryption" thumbprint="C9D6F3C6FFB37EE967244FC7BAC7E9C362DF70BE" thumbprintAlgorithm="sha1" />
    </Certificates>
  </Role>
</ServiceConfiguration>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceDefinition name="PhpOnAzure" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceDefinition">
  <WebRole name="WebRole" enableNativeCodeExecution="true" vmsize="ExtraSmall">
    <Sites>
      <Site name="WebRole" physicalDirectory="./WebRole">
        <Bindings>
          <Binding name="Endpoint1" endpointName="HttpEndpoint" />
        </Bindings>
      </Site>
    </Sites>
    <Startup>
      <Task commandLine="install-php.cmd >> .\startup-tasks-log.txt 2>>.\startup-tasks-error-log.txt" executionContext="elevated" taskType="simple" /> 
    </Startup>
    <Endpoints>
      <InputEndpoint name="HttpEndpoint" protocol="http" port="80" />
    </Endpoints>
    <Imports>
      <Import moduleName="Diagnostics"/>

      <!-- For RDP access. Commented by default -->
      <Import moduleName="RemoteAccess"/>
      <Import moduleName="RemoteForwarder"/>
    </Imports>
    <ConfigurationSettings>
      <Setting name="sql_azure_database" />
      <Setting name="sql_azure_username" />
      <Setting name="sql_azure_password" />
      <Setting name="sql_azure_host" />
      <Setting name="db_prefix" />
      <Setting name="update_free_access" />
      <Setting name="drupal_hash_salt" />
      <Setting name="base_url" />
    </ConfigurationSettings>
  </WebRole>
</ServiceDefinition>

http://localize.drupal.org/translate/languages/fr

(http://ftp.drupal.org/files/translations/7.x/drupal/drupal-7.10.fr.po)

C:\Temp\Drupal01\WebRole\includes\database\sqlsrv\database.inc

  /**
   * Internal function: prepare a query by calling PDO directly.
   *
   * This function has to be public because it is called by other parts of the
   * database layer, but do not call it directly, as you risk locking down the
   * PHP process.
   */
  public function PDOPrepare($query, array $options = array()) {
    if (!$this->bypassQueryPreprocess) {
      $query = $this->preprocessQuery($query);
    }
    // THIS FIX IS TEMPORARY UNTIL MICROSOFT MOVE THE IMPLEMENTATION
    // OF THIS ATTRIBUTE IN THE PDO DRIVER OPTIONS.
    // Let's emulate the attributes preparation because it costs a little
    // bit more to have it disabled than enabled and because we are not
    // leveraging the benefits of it.
    $options[PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES] = TRUE;
    return parent::prepare($query, $options);
  }

  /**
   * Internal function: prepare a query by calling PDO directly.
   *
   * This function has to be public because it is called by other parts of the
   * database layer, but do not call it directly, as you risk locking down the
   * PHP process.
   */
  public function PDOPrepare($query, array $options = array()) {
      $query = $this->preprocessQuery($query);
    return parent::prepare($query, $options);
  }

C:\Temp\Drupal01\WebRole\php\php.ini

set here=%~dp0%

package create -in=”%here%Drupal01″ -out=”%here%.” -dev=false
pause

PDOException: SQLSTATE[IMSSP]: An invalid statement option was specified.: SELECT SCHEMA_NAME(); Array ( ) in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of E:\approot\includes\lock.inc).

http://appazure.cloudapp.net/install.php

Benjamin

Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE

Create Windows Azure remote desktop configuration | créer une configuration Azure pour le bureau d’accès à distance

by community-syndication | Dec 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceDefinition name="WindowsAzureProject1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceDefinition">
  <WorkerRole name="WorkerRole1" vmsize="Small">
    <Imports>
      <Import moduleName="Diagnostics" />
      <Import moduleName="RemoteAccess" />
      <Import moduleName="RemoteForwarder" />
    </Imports>
  </WorkerRole>
</ServiceDefinition>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceConfiguration serviceName="WindowsAzureProject1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration" osFamily="1" osVersion="*">
  <Role name="WorkerRole1">
    <Instances count="1" />
    <ConfigurationSettings>
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.Enabled" value="true" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.AccountUsername" value="RDAdmin" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.AccountEncryptedPassword" value="MIIBnQYJKoZIhvcNAQcDoIIBjjCCAYoCAQAxggFOMIIBSgIBADAyMB4xHDAaBgNVBAMME1dpbmRvd3MgQXp1cmUgVG9vbHMCEFmUr8LcQTGbRpiY5c+XiyowDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQAEggEAOXUkCgGgaT/q6QET/mIc3vBm26kuKjGuRt6uYG4LTDXRORXqalBSGN3KMq3LcZu839h9fFoud9SwsHBeTRZJZUspn2aCg46oZRbUGXULZwfmy9DrXdWuNfUUf2pTZ9W8b4ycXuDwEhiMn2h7WUl6b7Wr/855Ig8zMgOEROVObjYSH4Y7cnAcN8LZBpCE5AhdoiB6+UX6gOMO9tB3vxEgF1O12MilpC0uceMtVvdMQKreBz4zFWlDtMOcx0snQ0LrHy67Lg5akyarkoarmV34yYmnW8zeC4tQI/Y2AJgO62JB69wcqOKcFUyLdWr4RcJ/qd1TFFPrbk1uxA8O8ZNWrDAzBgkqhkiG9w0BBwEwFAYIKoZIhvcNAwcECPTuBPW9liu/gBD//feGUjpCq4d09Uvvf2QV" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.AccountExpiration" value="2012-12-07T23:59:59.0000000+01:00" />
      <Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteForwarder.Enabled" value="true" />
    </ConfigurationSettings>
    <Certificates>
      <Certificate name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.RemoteAccess.PasswordEncryption" thumbprint="224E9C052400EA028D0E9E369F3895437C71DC75" thumbprintAlgorithm="sha1" />
    </Certificates>
  </Role>
</ServiceConfiguration>

Benjamin

Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE