Recently, I came across a very odd issue in CRM 4.0. This issue popped up because of an improper deploy/refresh in conjunction with the removal of an entity between test and production servers. It was very out of the ordinary, and I had not seen anything like it before.
The Issue at Hand
This issue was that […]
Blog Post by: rlanzilli
So far in this blog series we’ve been looking at how Enterprise Integration Patterns apply to cloud integration scenarios. We’ve seen that a Shared Database Pattern works well when you have common data (and schema) and multiple consumers who want consistent access. The Remote Procedure Invocation Pattern is a good fit when one system desires […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
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| This video shows a Windows Azure VIP Swap (VIP = Virtual IP Address), which is one of the means to deploy a version n+1 of a web site while version n is live. | Cette vid%u00e9o montre un %u00e9change d’adresses IP virtuelles qui est un moyen de d%u00e9ployer une version n+1 en production, alors que la version n est en train de tourner. |
| In this demo, | Dans cette d%u00e9mo, |
| – version n is deployed to the production slot. Visually, it has a white border. | – la version n est d%u00e9ploy%u00e9e dans l’emplacement de production. Visuellement, elle comporte une bordure blanche. |
| – version n+1 has additional modules (which cannot be seen here) and also a yellow border for demo purposes. It is deployed in the staging slot. | – La version n+1 a des modules additionnels (ce qu’on ne voit pas ici) ainsi qu’une bordure jaune %u00e0 des fins de d%u00e9monstration. Elle est d%u00e9ploy%u00e9e dans l’emplacement interm%u00e9diaire. |
| – after seeing both versions of the site (note that staging slot has an Azure generated and hard to guess URL), a VIP swap is initiated | – Apr%u00e8s avoir vu les deux versions du site (on notera que l’emplacement interm%u00e9diairea une URL g%u00e9n%u00e9r%u00e9e par Azure et difficile %u00e0 deviner), un %u00e9change d’adresses IP virtuelle est initi%u00e9 |
| – after a few seconds, navigating to the production URL shows version n+1 instead of version n. | – Apr%u00e8s quelques secondes, on navigue vers l’URL de production qui montre la version n+1 au lieu de la version n. |
Blog Post by: Benjamin GUINEBERTIERE
I’m currently working on an application for a un-named organisation. As part of this, I need to export files for processing in the Australian defacto standard for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) files – the ABA format.
I’m using BizTalk of course, and it can handle this weird format, however all I had was the sample file, which for a fixed width flat file is not great.
I found the format documented here: http://ddkonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/aba-bank-payment-file-format-australian.html
Apparently the banks have all agreed on this format, which is firstly Ancient in origin and format, and design Highlighting that it’s a flat file, of fixed field lengths..
If this was re-factored into a XML format, it would be much easier to generate, highly flexible, and they could expose an interface, via a simple web service to accept this format. All authentication could be done via a secure https web service, with encryption on the web service.
Let’s understand that this is used to effect payments from a company’s bank account to individuals, this is highly sensitive and needs to be secured.
This format of this file is NOT encrypted in anyway; it is open, readable, and modifiable. There are no check digits, no certificate of authentication or any of the modern features you would expect in such a file.
By Exposing a WCF endpoint, which had authentication via certificate, using an https/transport encryption/security would handle some of this requirement; the rest is in the detail of the message itself.
Currently what happens is we output this file to the file system, and then someone picks it up… and processes it…
If a WCF or web service endpoint was open by the bank, we could securely communicate with this, and send the payment file, someone could log onto their secure interface and approve the transfers still, however there would be zero chance of someone modifying this file before it got there….
Before we got involved, this was just popped onto the file system somewhere, generated via a different method
I am not one to mess around when it comes to security, and this smells to me. The banks need to provide an interface. I’ll happily build it, securely and flexible enough for all platforms to communicate with it.
I’ve been using Watin for quite some browser automation projects. But it seems that Watin is a bit dead in the water. No Chrome support. No Firefox 4 or higher support. It also seems to be an heroic effort of a few people.
So it might be time to move over to Selenium. Active development, wide browser support…
QuickLearn’s MVP Anthony Borton is scheduled to teach the pre-conference hands-on workshop Managing your Application Lifecycle with TFS at next week’s ALM Summit.
Audience
This pre-conference workshop has been developed as a level 200 event to help get conference attendees up to speed with TFS and maximize their understanding of the product and its features prior to the ALM Summit kicking off.
Course Abstract
Many organizations use only part of what Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) has to offer and as a result are not realizing the full range of benefits available to them. This workshop will give you a hands-on walk through of the many ways TFS can help your team realise more frequent successes with software development projects.
The workshop will start by evaluating and selecting a suitable process template for the project. We’ll work through an end to end project and examine the many capabilities of TFS that can help you start your project off on the right track and keep it there. Some of the key topics we’ll look at include:
About Anthony Borton
Anthony has designed and developer all of QuickLearn’s ALM curriculum. Anthony is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP with over 20 years’ experience in the software development and training industries. Anthony is a sought after trainer and has delivered technical training and consulting in the United States and all across the Asia Pacific region. He is a Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio ALM), a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
View all of Anthony’s upcoming training courses at QuickLearn: http://www.quicklearn.com/tfs-training.aspx
The November 2011 release expands on the Service Bus brokered messaging content to provide more details of the features. Deadlettering and message expiration are covered, along with message deferral, duplicate message detection, message correlation and sessions.
Get it here.
In WCF there is an option in your contract to markup as an OneWay method like this:
[OperationContract(IsOneWay=true)]
Details:”System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The server did not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by a contract mismatch, a premature session shutdown or an internal server error.
Moesion’s adoption keeps skyrocketing and tomorrow we will be hosting our 2 nd Moesion webinar. We are going to be walking through real world scenarios about how to manage your IT infrastructure, whether on-premise or on the cloud, from your smartphone…(read more)
Blog Post by: gsusx
Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk image as the base for copies created for virtual machine clones. In most cases, you can operate with…(read more)
Blog Post by: Mark Russinovich