by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
One of the important thing we addressed in BizTalk360 version 7.8 (releasing Oct, 2014) is a mechanism to have consistent date and time handling. Handling date and time consistently may sound very obvious one, but it’s pretty hard to get it right if you haven’t done it correctly in the early stages of the project. […]
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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar
by community-syndication | Oct 8, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Hi folks – I’m lined up to present the Azure Dev Camps over the coming weeks in Sydney,
Melbourne & Brissy.
Given the rate of change of Azure – there’s some amazing stuff in here.
Come along for 1 day and just up to speed or maybe top up your skills and we can kick
tyres together.
It’s FREE!! Wooo hooo (so please only register if you’re coming,
resist the ’register but something came up’ scenario)
Here’s the topics we’re covering:
Full details here on Esther’s blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizspark_au/archive/2014/10/01/microsoft-azure-devcamps-sydney-melbourne-and-brisbane.aspx
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
by community-syndication | Oct 8, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This post is for the BizTalk Server and SQL Server Portuguese Community, will be held on October 15, 2014 between 18:30 – 21:50 the LIX SQLPort Community Meeting at the Science and Technology Park of University of Porto (UPTEC) in Oporto. LIX Encontro da comunidade SQLPort Realiza-se no dia 15 de Outubro de 2014, o […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
by community-syndication | Oct 7, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Read the second post in this series: Serializing Custom .Net Types for use with the Azure Redis Cache. I spend a lot of my time at the moment architecting and writing integration code against Dynamics CRM 2011 and 2013. My current project is based on Azure Worker Roles and sucks CRUD messages from an SFTP […]
Blog Post by: modhul
by community-syndication | Oct 7, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Today I gave a presentation on upcoming and new things in Azure. Talk about a tough
gig to condense the amazing new features into just 55 mins!!!
The crowd was great and I spoke & demoed about:
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Cross Site VPNs (with powershell demo)
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Cross region resilient Traffic Manager.
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Autoscale
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SignalR ASPNET ServiceBus backplane
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ServiceBus Event Hubs
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Azure Document DB
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Azure Search
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Application Insights
I’ve got links to the Demo & Powerpoints below Enjoy!
Here’s the links to:
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Demos – http://1drv.ms/1oM1vMg
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PowerPoints – http://1drv.ms/1oM1mZk
I’ve got a session tomorrow on: Extending your Security to Azure 🙂 which I’ll post
up here shortly there after.
Have a great night.
Mick.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
by community-syndication | Oct 5, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m proud to announce that I will present a session about BizTalk Services: “Introduction to Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services” at SQLSaturday #341 Porto (Portugal) on October 18th, 2014! I’m excited and it is truly an honor because this is the first time I submit a session to this kind of event and I have been […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
by community-syndication | Oct 4, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Recently Microsoft and BizTalk360 have announced the continuation of the Global BizTalk Summit that is held annually in the greater Seattle area. This year the event moves from downtown Seattle to Redmond and has been branded Integrate 2014. The event will take place December 3rd – 5th, 2014 on the Microsoft campus. If you are interested in Microsoft Integration technologies, this is a must attend event.
Based upon the current Session Schedule you will be exposed to:
- New BizTalk Adapter Framework for BizTalk Services
- New Workflow designer in BizTalk Services
- New BizTalk Rules Engine in BizTalk Services
- B2B Improvements in BizTalk Services
- Internet of Things (Service Bus)
- Hybrid Connectivity
- Azure API Management
- Customer Success Stories
- Ask the Experts (MVP) interactions
As you can see there is a lot of unique and progressive content on display at this event. I will be attending the event as will many other familiar faces from the Microsoft Integration community.
Registration is now open and there are some early bird tickets available until November 15th, 2014.
See you there!!!
by community-syndication | Oct 4, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I recently read the Getting Started with BizTalk Services book and decided to blog about my experience with it. I have test drove earlier versions of BizTalk Services (blog, blog, and blog) and decided that I wanted to catch up on some of the more recent developments in this space. Reading this book was a great way to get this type of information from one source.
Let’s first start off with the authors; Jon Fancey and Karthik Bharathy. Both Jon and Karthik are BizTalk veterans and are both very well respected in the community. I knew picking up the book that the quality would not be a concern.
The book does not require a reader to possess extensive BizTalk Server experience. It does help when drawing comparisons between features in Server vs Services. Even without a lot of Microsoft Integration experience, a reader can be very productive working through the examples in this book.
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Within the book, you will discover 8 chapters covering 156 pages. Each chapter contains some contextual background information followed by easy to follow examples that include:
- Introduction to BizTalk Services
- Messages and Transforms
- Bridges
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Business to business Integration
- Management APIs
- Tracking and Troubleshooting
- Moving to BizTalk Services
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Even though I have some experience with the BizTalk Services beta and its predecessors I did learn some things from this book. Probably most valuable chapter for me was Chapter 2 – Messages and Transforms. While I have used the new “mapper” in BizTalk Services, there were certainly some operations that I haven’t used before including:
- List Operations
- Get Context Properties inside a map
- If then else operation
- Transform Exception Settings.
Another useful chapter for me was Chapter 5 – Business to business Integration. Even though the BizTalk Services platform is rather young, the BizTalk Services’ EDI capabilities are known to be one of the strengths of the platform. Since I have not done much in the EDI space, this chapter acted as an EDI Primer and then was able to relate these EDI concepts to the BizTalk Services solution.
Lastly, the Management API chapter was interesting as well. I have seen Steef-Jan present on the topic, but it was nice to be able to read through some examples on how you can manage your BizTalk Services application.
Conclusion
In the final chapter; Chapter 8 – Moving BizTalk Services discusses some of the current gaps between BizTalk Server and BizTalk Services. The authors drop some subtle hints around what features are coming that will close the feature parity gap that currently exists. Based upon the agenda for the upcoming Integrate 2014 event, I suspect this gap will be closed rather quickly. Which means, the timing to pick up this book, to ensure you understand the fundamentals of the BizTalk Services, before some of these other features are announced provides a great opportunity to ensure you can hit the ground running.
The book can be sourced from both Amazon and PacktPub in both e-book and traditional paperback format. The Kindle version of the book is a mere $8.96 USD which is a incredible bargain.
by community-syndication | Oct 1, 2014 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
SharePoint has the Content Query web part, which is a control that allows a user to display an aggregated list of items based on some criteria. You can choose to return items from all sites within a site collection or from a specific list; all based on a list type and content type. You also […]
Blog Post by: Brian Feldmann
