BizTalk Training – Orchestrations – How to Call Orchestrations developed in a different Visual Studio Solution

BizTalk Training – Orchestrations – How to Call Orchestrations developed in a different Visual Studio Solution

In the past I developer a demo on “How to Call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application” that you can read here and download the source code from Code Gallery here. This demo was compose by one Visual Studio Solution with two different projects: Project1 Orch1 Schema1 Project2 Orch2 However there were […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Map Unit test does not work in BizTalk 2013 because TestableMapBase class is not correct.

Map Unit test does not work in BizTalk 2013 because TestableMapBase class is not correct.

Reblogged from shadabanwer: While working on the BTS2013 project, I started writing unit test for Schemas and Maps. I found that unit test for maps do not work anymore with the BTS2013 upgrade. I keep on getting “Transform failure” error messages. I with the help of one of my colleague figure out actually Microsoft had […]
Blog Post by: Johann

Adding a unique constraint to your BizTalk schemas to prevent duplicate value in elements/attributes

Adding a unique constraint to your BizTalk schemas to prevent duplicate value in elements/attributes

A customer asked me recently if the BizTalk business rules engine was a good place to search for repeating elements containing duplicate values in an XML message that is received on a one way BizTalk hosted WCF service and to throw an exception back to a service consumer if a duplicate is found. My initial […]
Blog Post by: Johann

Using the Identity and Access extension in Visual Studio with an Azure ACS namespace created in the new Azure Management Portal (working around error ID1113)

Using the Identity and Access extension in Visual Studio with an Azure ACS namespace created in the new Azure Management Portal (working around error ID1113)

Continuing my foray into the world of Azure I started playing with using my Azure VM as an ADFS server with the goal of using it as an identity provider in Windows Azure ACS for the appropriate candidate azure services. I followed the instructions on this fantastic step by step walkthrough by Haishi Bai (he […]
Blog Post by: Johann

BizTalk PowerShell Add-In updated for BizTalk 2013

BizTalk PowerShell Add-In updated for BizTalk 2013

I was working on building out the BizTalk 2013 environments for a client when one of the guys in IT mentioned that the BizTalk PowerShell snap-in was not updated for working with BizTalk 2013. The CodePlex site athttp://psbiztalk.codeplex.com/ mentions the currently released version only works on BizTalk 2010. So I downloaded the source and rebuilt […]
Blog Post by: clineer

Our first TFS2012 ADMIN COURSE IN LONDON SCORES 96%

Our first TFS2012 ADMIN COURSE IN LONDON SCORES 96%

QuickLearn’s first TFS 2012 Configuration and Administration course to run in London has just finished and we’re happy to announce that the course scored a staggering 96% customer satisfaction rating based on the course evaluations. Our trainer also scored a perfect score of 100% for both his knowledge of TFS and his presentation ability. Our […]
Blog Post by: Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor)

Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Days 2013

It’s that time again when we are announcing that the community driven event “BizTalk Innovation Event” once again will come to Norway. This year Bouvet I the main sponsor again and the webpage is already up and running and registration is officially open! We have decided to add 2 extra speakers this year, MVP Kent […]
Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

Unable to RDP to Windows Azure VM using AD credentials – The local security authority cannot be contacted

Unable to RDP to Windows Azure VM using AD credentials – The local security authority cannot be contacted

I hit an interesting problem today while trying to RDP to my Windows Azure VM usingactive directorycredentialswhere I was getting an error message stating “An authentication error has occurred. The local security authority cannot be contacted.”. This VM was connected to a domain, my domain controller also being an Azure VM. At some point I […]
Blog Post by: Johann