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BizTalk360 with SQL Server Express Edition

by Senthil Palanisamy | Aug 2, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Introduction Most of users prefer to install BizTalk360 in a standalone sever. Importantly, this approach does not overload the BizTalk environment or the BizTalk360 instance. Quite often, BizTalk360 database is configured in the same SQL Server instance as where...

Azure API Management Feature: SOAP pass-through

by Bill Chesnut | Jul 31, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

By Bill Chesnut This is the first post in a multi part series on the features of Azure API Management. When companies embark on a migration to Azure, they tend to have lots of legacy application, when they start using Azure API Management (APIM), they also want to...

Analytics Features enhancements in BizTalk360 v8.8

by Praveena Jayanarayanan | Jul 31, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Using BizTalk360 Analytics, you can visualize a lot of interesting facts about your BizTalk environment, like number of messages processed, failure rate at message type level, BizTalk server CPU/Memory performances, BizTalk process (host instances, SSO, rules engine,...

Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: July 30, 2018

by Gautam | Jul 30, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Do you feel difficult to keep up to date on all the frequent updates and announcements in the Microsoft Integration platform? Integration weekly update can be your solution. It’s a weekly update on the topics related to Integration – enterprise...

Demystify Invalid type name error on BizTalk Schemas (Part II)

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 27, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

In the last post, we try to demystify the reason and cause of the error: Invalid type name. The root node type has to be a valid C# identifier when you are working with a schema with a single root node. In this second part of the post, we will address what happens If...

Demystify Invalid type name error on BizTalk Schemas (Part I)

by Sandro Pereira | Jul 26, 2018 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A few days ago, while trying to compile a BizTalk Server solution I got the following error: Invalid type name. The root node type has to be a valid C# identifier. I end up solving this problem but while I was preparing this post the reason I realize that the cause...