Slides from Calgary Azure Dev Camp

On January 10, 2015 I had the opportunity to speak about the Azure Service Bus.  This was an introductory presentation on the subject, but I  was able to sneak in a more complex demo at the end that includes Azure Mobile Services and BizTalk.  I have uploaded the slides to slideshare below.  If you want to see a video of the the final demo you can view that on Channel 9.

Why cloud computing?

Why cloud computing?

The origin of “cloud computing” term is unknown but the concept of cloud has been there in since internet. I have seen diagrams with cloud depicting the internet or grid of sophisticated computer network. Back in old web development days I used to deploy websites and its database on remote web/database hosting servers available publicly […]
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BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Visual Studio 2013 (Part 6)

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Visual Studio 2013 (Part 6)

This next posts will focus on installing the BizTalk prerequisites and perform the necessary configuration on BizTalk Server machine. Before installing BizTalk Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft. Install Visual Studio 2013 The BizTalk Server development tools are based on Visual Studio and it provides […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Microsoft Office Excel 2013 (Part 5)

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Microsoft Office Excel 2013 (Part 5)

This next posts will focus on installing the BizTalk prerequisites and perform the necessary configuration on BizTalk Server machine. Before installing BizTalk Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft. Install Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Microsoft Office Excel is required for using the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

No more updates of MsgBoxViewer : now replaced by "BizTalk Health Monitor" (BHM)

No more updates of MsgBoxViewer : now replaced by "BizTalk Health Monitor" (BHM)

Hello,

You are maybe already aware of our new Health Check tool "BizTalk Health Monitor" (aka " BHM") available now in its version 2. If not, I invite you strongly to download it and use it to check periodically for the good health of your BizTalk production platforms.

BHM is a full MMC snap-in sharing the same engine and repository (queries and rules) than MBV to analyze in-depth a  BizTalk group and present all important information in a complete dashboard view.
This MMC was created to replace definitively MBV by presenting in a more user friendly format its analyze results and providing so a better experience.
Its snap-in format allows to be easely integrated in an existing MMC like the BizTalk Administration console, and its TreeView control allows to keep well organized its multiple profiles and generated reports, making much more easy their comparison.
BHM provides also schedule & notification features, integrated perfomance counters views, and its latest version is now completly customizable; you can so customize as you want its dashboard view and add very easely your own queries and rules !

I inform you so that no updated public version of MBV will be available. Next updates of the rich repository of MBV (its large set of queries and rules raising warnings)  will be available only via BHM which will be periodicallly updated.

I encourage you to test BHM and its numerous features and report your feedbacks on the BHM blog

FYI, BHM v3 is in preparation and should provide remediation features 

Thanks

JP


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BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install and configure SMTP Server Feature (optional) (Part 4)

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install and configure SMTP Server Feature (optional) (Part 4)

This next posts will focus on installing the BizTalk prerequisites and perform the necessary configuration on BizTalk Server machine. Before installing BizTalk Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft. Install and configure SMTP Server Feature (optional) Again in the previous step “BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) (Part 3)

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Install Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) (Part 3)

This next posts will focus on installing the BizTalk prerequisites and perform the necessary configuration on BizTalk Server machine. Before installing BizTalk Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft. Install Windows Identity Foundation In the previous step “BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Enable […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 2)

BizTalk Server 2013 R2: Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 2)

This next posts will focus on installing the BizTalk prerequisites and perform the necessary configuration on BizTalk Server machine. Before installing BizTalk Server or its prerequisites, make sure you have installed the latest critical Windows updates from Microsoft. Enable Internet Information Services Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) provides a Web application infrastructure for many BizTalk […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira