For the BizTalk and Azure Portuguese Community, after Oporto (Windows Azure One Day Lab on May 14) and Milan (Overnet BizTalk Innovation Event on May 23) is now time for Coimbra receive my session about Introduction to the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI features. On June 09, 2012 will be held the 5th Meeting of NetPonto […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
So we’ve gotten through the final part of our TFS upgrade and as with all new products
there’s a sense of anticipation in discovering the new, the brilliant and the clever
that’s been baked into these products.
So I’ve offloaded as much as possible such as the DBs, SSRS and Analysis on our SQL2012
cluster, leaving the function of TFS and SharePoint 2010 on the one box.
Here’s my list:
Before I embark down the track like the Leyland Brothers I go hit with a very informative
message – BOOM
“TF400080: Your system does not have the recommended amount of system memory
available: 10 GB. While SharePoint 2010 with Team Foundation Server can operate with
less than this amount of memory, the performance will be degraded. Upgrade your system
memory to at least the recommended minimum for optimal performance”
Soooothe old 10GB means it will run ’better’. I reckon anything in 10GB will run
great! SQL supporting 4000 concurrent transactions, etc.
10GB! Run TFS + SP2010 = 10GB (optimal).
I guess for years the ’recommended guides’ have undersold themselves. This time round,
they’re not guilty of that.
Looks to be a great upgrade though.
Cracking on.
Mick.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
I think at the moment, the short answer is no! Off to check the documentation
”To continue with this installation or upgradeplease remove!”
.
From the documentation – we uninstall TFS 2010 bits, but not
the DB obviously and you do.
Use
Control Panel to completely uninstall the previous version of Team Foundation Server.
If SharePoint Products is running on a computer other than Team Foundation Server,
you have to uninstall the TFS Extensions for SharePoint from the SharePoint server,
too. If SharePoint Products is on the TFS application tier, don’t worry: We’ll automatically
uninstall the TFS Extensions for SharePoint while we remove the old version of TFS.
Run
the Team Foundation Server install from the product DVD and then use the Upgrade Configuration
wizard to upgrade your installation. But wait-if SharePoint Products is running on
a computer other than the computer running Team Foundation Server, you’ll first want
to install the new TFS Extensions for SharePoint on the SharePoint server. Similar
to the previous step, if SharePoint Products is on the TFS application tier, we’ll
automatically install the Extensions for SharePoint while we set up the new version
of TFS.
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
It is common knowledge that you use a Correlation Set to correlate message by creating an instance subscription that subscribes to hopefully unique properties. The subscription is created by pointing out a number of properties that you want to use for the correlation. Then when a message is published to the MessageBox that matches that subscription it is delivered to the orchestration. What most experienced developers knows is that Correlation Sets also promote properties as they are initialized; as the first message is sent by the orchestration. There is no other way to manually select properties to be promoted in a message sent from an orchestration. However, do not think that manual promotion through the use of Correlation Sets is the only way that properties will get promoted when published by an orchestration. It is not.
If the property has a Property Schema Base of MessageDataPropertyBase as below, then you do not need a correlation set. You only need to send the message and promotion will be taken care of automatically.
Only if you want to promote a property that has a Property Schema base of context type (MessageContextPropertyBase or PartContextPropertyBase) do you need to manually provide a Correlation Set to make sure promotion happens.
By *ContextPropertyBase we mean that its origin cannot be found within the data of the message, but is expected to be promoted to the context by another component, such as the adapter, a pipeline component or something else – in this case an orchestration, do you need to manually take action to make sure it is promoted as you publish a message to the MessageBox from an orchestration. And in this case you need a Correlation Set.
Of course if you were to be actually doing correlation with the Correlation Set and not only using it to promote a property then you would still want to Initialize a Correlation Set containing all properties you want to use regardless if these have their origin in the message data or not.
Blog Post by: Johan Hedberg
Ever updated, The Microsoft Integration Story, in an extended 3h format, joins the lists as one of the available topics in Microsoft Swedens Summercamp (Sommarkollo) 2012. Two stops in Stockholm (27/6, 21/8) and one in Helsingborg (26/6). I hope to see you there.
Enjoy
/Johan
Additional info (in Swedish):
Snart %u00e4r sommaren h%u00e4r och med den Microsofts uppskattade evenemang Sommarkollo. F%u00f6r tionde %u00e5ret i rad har vi massor av sp%u00e4nnande seminarier och produkter att presentera. Delta i s%u00e5 m%u00e5nga seminarier du vill – helt utan kostnad! Passa p%u00e5 att tr%u00e4ffa oss n%u00e4r vi bes%u00f6ker Stockholm, G%u00f6teborg och Helsingborg p%u00e5 v%u00e5r turn%u00e9 genom Sverige i sommar.
Sommarkollo %u00e4r ett evenemang f%u00f6r dig som vill bli inspirerad och p%u00e5l%u00e4st inf%u00f6r h%u00f6sten. Du blir v%u00e4l insatt i nyheter, teknik och annan intressant och anv%u00e4ndbar information som r%u00f6r v%u00e5ra senaste och hetaste produkter. Seminarierna riktar sig b%u00e5de till dig som %u00e4r kund och partner till Microsoft.
Vi kommer bland mycket annat presentera nyheterna System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 och SQL Server 2012. Vi ger dig %u00e4ven unik inblick p%u00e5 hur Windows 8 kommer se ut och hur du och ditt f%u00f6retag kan arbeta enklare och effektivare med hj%u00e4lp av Microsofts produktivitetsplattform. Vi bjuder ocks%u00e5 p%u00e5 flera m%u00e5lgruppsanpassade seminarier f%u00f6r exempelvis utvecklare, it-proffs och s%u00e4ljare.
V%u00e4lj och kombinera de seminarier som intresserar och passar just dig. Om du bokar b%u00e5de f%u00f6r- och eftermiddagspass bjuder vi p%u00e5 en l%u00e4ttare lunch.
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Blog Post by: Johan Hedberg
The book has finally been published. I couldn’t be happier about it. It’s been a fun ride but reaching the finish line is always sweet.
The book itself is targeted at the BizTalk Server certification 70-595. We have done our very best to be as brief and as focused on the areas of the certification as possible, while still keeping it far away from being verbatim or a cheat sheet. We want people to come away having learned useful pieces of BizTalk Server, not only be able to successfully answer the certification questions. The book does contain a healthy number of certification style (but not certification copied) question and answers, with a short explanation of why and why not the correct answer applies. All you need to know is there, explained and put into context. Hand in hand with being certification bound and focused also goes carrying a thread throughout and across chapters that will make the book an easy and time efficient read. I hope, in the end, that we succeeded in that.
You can read all about the book and it’s content, as well as making purchases 😉 on either Packt or Amazon (or if you prefer and are in Sweden from Bokus).
Authoring a book was more of a challenge than I anticipated. Not so much the writing in itself, but all the things that goes around it. All the editing and proof reading and keeping track of changes etc. The latter took basically half of the time if not more, both calendar wise and in number of spent hours. I would do it again if the title was interesting enough, but right now I have other plans for the summer.
Completing a book is a real team effort, and without the team at Packt and our reviewers the quality would not be at the level it is. Thanks to Kent and Morten, to all the people at Packt, Kerry especially, and to our reviewers, Jan Eliasen, Mikael H%u00e5kansson, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Todd Uhl among others.
Kent has written two post (1, 2) on the progress of the book as well.
Blog Post by: Johan Hedberg
I was browsing through the BizTalk Server Downloads section on MSDN recently and came across an excellent resource for BizTalk Server professionals looking to learn and leverage the capabilities of the ESB Toolkit. BizTalk Server 2010 ESB Toolkit Training Kit I wasn’t aware of it’s release and it doesn’t appear to be publicised anywhere on […]
Blog Post by: Colin Meade
I received word from Packt Publishing today that our book has officially been published. This book has been around 10 months in the making so it is very rewarding to see this book released.
The intent of this book is to prepare experienced BizTalk developers and administrators with the tools that they need to write the exam. It was an interesting project and different from my last book adventure. In the BizTalk LOB book we were really interested in addressing a few core concepts within a particular chapter. For instance in the SAP chapter, I emphasized on how to send and receive IDOCs. This time around in the MCTS book we needed to address the requirements of the exam to ensure that we provided proper coverage. I definitely feel that we did hit the areas that we needed to hit.
Another interesting aspect of the MCTS book was our existing NDA as we all wrote (and passed) the exam before starting out on our journey. This book is not a cheat sheet. You won’t find the exact questions and answers on the exam. Overall the book is around 467 pages so there is a lot of content to cover. If you invest the time in reading the book and working through the examples and practice tests, I am confident that you will do well on the exam.
It was a pleasure working with the other authors: Johan Hedberg and Morten la Cour. Writing books is not always a smooth process and Johan, as the lead author, did a great job keeping the book moving. I had not worked with Morten before the project and appreciated the professionalism that he brought to the project.
Creating a polished product like this book takes more than just talented authors. There is a core team that is working behind the scenes that really make these projects successful. With that said I would like to thank the Packt team for their determination in getting this project to the printers. I would also like to thank the very talented reviewers who held us in check and increased the quality of the book. These reviewers include:
The book is available for purchase from both Packt and Amazon websites.
What’s Next?
I have already been asked by a few people, what’s next? Do you have another book coming out? I do not have any immediate plans to write another book. If a topic did come up that was extremely interesting I would consider it. Writing is a very large time commitment and has been a very positive experience but I do want to spend some time reading(and learning new things) instead of writing.
There is a brand new developers’ blog site on Windows Azure, called windows azure roadtrip. three specialist developers, each in thier own programming language, will be posting some blogs regularly.
Maarten Balliauw (a .NET developer) kicked it off with the very first blog post ‘Winsows Azure when you code .NET: what & Why’.
The other blog writers are Michelangelo van Dam (a PHP developer) and Fran%u00e7ois Hertay (a Java developer).
Keep a close eye on this webiste, more useful blog posts to come.
Resource: https://www.azure-roadtrip.be/
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During part of the setup process, you secure SSL communications between the SharePoint server and the fast server by running the SecureFASTSearchConnector.ps1 script. You supply the certPath, the username of the user running the OSearch14 service, and the name of the FAST Content SSA.
In my case, it was an account called SP Farm. […]
Blog Post by: Michael Gerety