One day I was given an interesting requirement – I needed to design a report that would render as a delimited text file. My first thought was to make it a report designed to be exported as a CSV, but I soon realized that the specs for this report required that the columns be separated […]
Blog Post by: mbomberger
Like I mention in one of my last posts, I decided to publish all my demos that I have been using in my sessions in BizTalk Innovation Event series. This will be the first demo. This demo is a basic integration scenario: “Event registration” and intends to show some of the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2013/01/30/fail-nokia.aspx
I can’t say I follow things that closely in the Windows Phone world, but I am aware of the upgrade to Windows phone 7.8. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. The improvements in the UI look nice, and when I get it, I can try to kid myself that my company phone, a Nokia Lumia 800, is really an 820.
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Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges: BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Torben Chrona Christiansen
The year 2013 promises to be a great year for us BizTalk professionals. BizTalk Server 2013 will be released in a few months, the beta is currently available on-premise and in Windows Azure. A few events have taken place already this month like the BizTalk Summits in London, Amsterdam and Stockholm. There will be more events coming this year. A lot of community involvement in 2013.
Today’s story
In my previous post I introduced the concept of Customer Power Outages and, at a high level, introduced how Outage Management Systems work. The key take away from that blog post is that important, event driven data is passing through BizTalk and there is an opportunity use this information to provide better Customer and Employee engagement through Service Bus Notification Hubs. Think about, conceptually how different is it from BAM Alerts? The idea behind BAM Alerts is data is moving through BizTalk, Tracking Profiles pick it up and send it to subscribers who are interested in it via email (oversimplifiedI know). The process of collecting this information for Notification Hubs is different but now we can reach an audience that we may never had access to before.
In this post we will take a closer look into how we could actually implement a Power Outage system and include notifications to both customers and employees by using Service Bus Notification Hubs.
Note: In some areas I have over-simplified the process in order to focus on some of the key technical aspects of Notification Hubs.
In the diagram below I have laid out the series of events that make up the architecture:
Conclusion
Hopefully this post has described in more detail how Service Bus Notifications can improve customer and employee engagement. I promise that the next post in the series will have some code. I just felt that if I could build a story, it would provide some worthwhile context that truly demonstrates why this Notification Hub technology is important.
Once again, Cnext is proud to announce the renewal of the gold partnership with Microsoft, demonstrating a “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment and distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem. Cnext reached this gold partnership in the category Application Integration. […]
Blog Post by: Cnext
Microsoft Learning used the ALM Summit 3 this week to announce the new “Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD): Application Lifecycle Management” certification. The new certification required you to pass the following three exams.
QuickLearn’s two TFS instructors have both already obtained this certification and have prepared comprehensive exam preparation sessions to help candidates focus their study and pass these exams.
The exam preparation sessions are available as FREE, ONLINE WEBINARS that anyone can register to attend. Over the coming month we’ll also release online video preparation sessions.
Attending these webinars will help you in the following ways.
To sign up for any of the free webinars, simply click the following link, choose the webinar you wish to attend and register.
SESSION DATES/TIME and REGISTRATION LINK
NOTE: We do not tell you the questions or the answers. We provide sample questions that we have written ourselves. We respect the NDA we signed prior to taking these exams. We do not encourage the use of brain dumps. Brain dumps devalue the certification and reduce value for everyone.
This week QuickLearn was involved at the third annual Application Lifecycle Management Summit held on the Microsoft Corporate headquarters in Redmond.
Nick and I were both involved in delivering content and sharing our TFS knowledge and skills with attendees. Here are the two activities we presented.
I delivered a sold-out pre-conference workshop entitled “Managing your application lifecycle with TFS”. The workshop provided attendees with a rapid overview of many of the features of Microsoft’s ALM suite. Based on the number of questions from attendees, there was a lot of interest in the new features in TFS 2012.
Microsoft took the opportunity to announce the brand new MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management certification at the conference. Nick and I paired up to deliver a 90 minute exam prep session to help attendees learn the best way to prepare for the three exams required for the new certification. Fortunately, both Nick and I both already have the certification so this made things a little easier.
Feedback from both activities was overwhelmingly positive and with our commitments done, we’re both just enjoying attending sessions at the conference for the rest of the week.
TorbenChrona Christiansen wrote a very handy blog post last year on how to bulk stop and start EDI batches in BizTalk Server 2009 using SQL queries. These queries can be used to aid in creating proof of concepts, to demonstrate batching in presentations, as a setup step in integration tests, or during deployments. Seeing as […]
Blog Post by: Johann