Attending BizTalk User group meeting in Sweden on 13th June.

I’m flying out to Sweden this weekend to attend the Sweden BizTalk User group meeting. This time it’s Richard Seroter and Kent Weare flying from other side of the Atlantic to show us what we should know when integrating with line of business systems. Steef-Jan Wiggers from Netherland is also coming to the event. So, it’s going to be a great catch up with fellow BizTalk Server MVP’s Johan Hedberg, Mikael Sand, Mikael H?kansson, Alan Smith

If you really got any burning questions related to BizTalk, this is the best possible opportunity  to clarify it.

Here are the details of the meeting, not sure if there are any availability, but worth trying at http://swebug20110613.eventbrite.com/

Details:

Top 10 Things to Know When Integrating with Line of Business Systems

Monday, June 13th at Microsofts office in Akalla.

Session 1 at 18:00

Session 2 at 19:30 to around 20:30.

On the side note, if anyone interested to learn more about BizTalk 360, or like to see a live demo. Please let me know either via the blog or one of the contact options at http://www.biztalk360.com/Content/Contact.aspx. I’ll be there between 11th June to 14th June. So, there is plenty of time to catch up.

Regards,

Saravana Kumar

Having Fun with WinDBG

I’ve been spending lots of quality time with WinDBG and the rest of the Windows Debugging Tools, and ran into something I thought was fun to do. For the sake of keeping it simple, let’s say I have a sample console application that looks like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using […]
Blog Post by: Tomas Restrepo

TFS Backup – easy way to wake up computer from sleep

I’m in the process of setting up TFS backup plan using the TFS Administration console. Setting up TFS backup plan using the administration console is so trivial, you can read Bharry’s post Backing up and restoring your TFS server for the details.

The challenge for us is, we don’t run the server in active mode all the time, the server goes to sleep after 3 hours of inactivity. If the server is sleeping our backup is not going to happen. I was looking for some options to wake up the server automatically from sleep at certain times in the night, just before our backup job kicks in. I found few options like setting the BIOS, few commercial options, and some custom coding options. In the end it turn out, there is nice little hack you can do to bring your PC alive just by scheduling a task using "Task Scheduler"

Just schedule a dummy task something like open command prompt and exit it straight away.

Ex: cmd.exe /c exit

Make sure you select the "Wake the computer to run this task" check box under "Conditions" tab

Now the server will wake up and ready before the TFS backup plan kick in.

Nandri!

Saravana

"Your folder can’t be shared" – Windows 7

Today I was trying to share a folder in Windows 7 in the home group and I was constantly greeted by an error message "Your folder can’t be shared". There are no other message or description about the exact reason why its happening.

I just ran the troubleshoot problems wizard (on the task bar, right click on the network icon, and click "Troubleshoot problem"), after some diagnosis the wizard gave me the warning the PC is connected to multiple networks, and it gave me the choice to open Network sharing center.

There were 3 active networks listed, I clicked on the "Local Area Connection 2", which brought the "Local Area Connection Status" window, and clicked on the button "Disable". I followed the same steps for "Local Area Connection 3".

Once this is sorted, now the folder sharing works like a breeze.

Nandri

Saravana

Find schemas deployed in BTS 2004N

If you need to find the schemas that are deployed and their unique root node names you can run this query.

Yes BTS 2004 still exists.

use biztalkmgmtdb
select msgtype as [Schema NameSpace#RootNode],
clr_namespace as [Assembly Name],
clr_typename as [Schema TypeName],
docspec_name as [Schema Namespace.TypeName]
from bt_DocumentSpec
order by msgtype

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Blog Post by: Eric StottN

Find schemas deployed in BTS 2004

If you need to find the schemas that are deployed and their unique root node names you can run this query.

Yes BTS 2004 still exists.

use biztalkmgmtdb
select msgtype as [Schema NameSpace#RootNode],
clr_namespace as [Assembly Name],
clr_typename as [Schema TypeName],
docspec_name as [Schema Namespace.TypeName]
from bt_DocumentSpec
order by msgtype

Blog Post by: Eric Stott

Update to BAM Service Generator

I have previously written about how to generate a types set of WCF services to achieve end-to-end BAM based tracking – even from outside potential firewalls etc.  So for example external parties could log via a BAM solution when for example sending or processing messages that are part of your integration chain. In that post […]
Blog Post by: Richard