BizTalk 2006 R2 - with RFID support
2008 Oct 06
1 of 116 | How to expose an old style WSDL with the schema's included from BizTalk 2006 R2 with a WCF adapter - It is really nice to have WCF around. With WCF you are ready for the future. Unfortunaltely this is only true in a Microsoft landscape. The new style WSDL with the schema's no longer included is one of those enhancements that should be really nice. Unfortunately there are tons of software out there that cannot handle the default WSDL behaviour of a WCF service. Below is a picture of the default WSDL behaviour. And this is not the behavoiur old clients like. So we have to modify the WSDL that's...(read more)...
2008 Sep 29
2 of 116 | Central Florida BizTalk User Group [Meeting in Tampa] - Central Florida BizTalk User Group [Meeting in Tampa]
Wednesday, October 1st, 6:30 PM at Tampa Microsoft Office
Central Florida BTUG is an independent, non-commercial user group focused on Microsoft’s BizTalk 2006 R2 and related technologies such as RFID, SOA, Windows Communication Foundation, and other divisions of connected systems. Targeted audience includes technologists at all levels including developers, architects, users, and decision makers. The user group will hold bi-monthly meetings delivered by technology experts in the field. Meetings will be located at the Tampa Microsoft Gulf States Office at 5426 Bay Center Dr Suite 700 Tampa, FL 33609. Future meetings may also be held......
2008 Sep 25
3 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification (70-241) - Recently to I have been to Redmond to participate in BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification exam (70-241) development.
It was wonderful experience being at Microsoft and working with the fellow BizTalkers.
Microsoft has greatly improved the exam development process. The questions will go through several stages to make sure they meet the product objectives and technical accuracy without any ambiguities in the answers. Also it's more closer to what we do with the product in day-to-day development as SMEs from the industry involve in this process.
Overall, for every BizTalker its a worth writing exam to get to know more about the product capabilities and making sure that they are product technol......
4 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Pre-requisites CAB Files - With many thanks to Sanket for posting this information originally, I wanted to post these links here so that the next time I can save my self the Google search and just hit this post. These links are for the EN language, but there's a link at the...(read more)...
2008 Sep 23
5 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 + R2 Performance and Optimisation Paper -
Folks - I recently came across a great article on Perf in BizTalk.
I had previous noted a BTS2004 one but always handy to have the updated version.
I thought I'd jot this down before I lost the reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc558617.aspx
Enjoy,
Mick.
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6 of 116 | Upgrading BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 - New EDI components not available - An issue that I recently came across was when we upgraded our servers from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 is that we were unable to see the new EDI features. This is the context menu I saw when right clicking the parties: Which is incorrect, I should...(read more)...
2008 Aug 20
7 of 116 | Death of the BizTalk JDE Adapter? - I have recently had to investigate integrating BizTalk 2006 R2 to JD Edwards version 8.12 (latest version). My first thought was to use the BizTalk JDE Adapter. I enquired about it on the BizTalk MSDN forums and also on a mailing list we have between...(read more)...
8 of 116 | Odds and Ends - A couple things to share on this glorious Wednesday.
First, one of our BizTalk developers came across an odd scenario, and I just learned that everyone’s favorite Dahan (Yossi Dahan) wrote about it a couple years ago. Our issue was that an orchestration needed to consume a service with a multi-part input, but the complex type parameter wouldn’t show up as message for mapping. After a quick poke around, I see that Yossi explained how multi-part messages that have a mix of complex parts and simple type parts cannot be used in a map. I tried it out, and sure enough, if you create a multi-part orchestration message that does not have all parts set as schema types, then that message isn’t a......
9 of 116 | Odds and Ends - A couple things to share on this glorious Wednesday.
First, one of our BizTalk developers came across an odd scenario, and I just learned that everyone’s favorite Dahan (Yossi Dahan) wrote about it a couple years ago. Our issue was that an orchestration needed to consume a service with a multi-part input, but the complex type parameter wouldn’t show up as message for mapping. After a quick poke around, I see that Yossi explained how multi-part messages that have a mix of complex parts and simple type parts cannot be used in a map. I tried it out, and sure enough, if you create a multi-part orchestration message that does not have all parts set as schema types, then that message isn’t a......
2008 Jul 16
10 of 116 | Upgrading to BizTalk 2006 R2 Experience - On one of the projects im associated with we have recently upgraded from BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2006 R2 for our next release.
In doing this we needed to upgrade our development environment and a number of testing environments. Fortunately the testing envronments are not managed by our team so we didnt need to have too much involvement in this other than providing guidance and support.
In the development environment we needed to upgrade a number of developer machines and also some build servers. We also needed to support some cycles of testing which were still happening on the non R2 machines.
Two things which you might want to consider if you are doing the same is as follows:
1. The ......
2008 Jul 11
11 of 116 | BizTalk Namespace Issue - Here is a little gem that I have come across recently... I have only confirmed this in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you create a receive shape with a filter expression of (BTS.Operation=="somevalue") and your namespace contains BTS. then you will get a build failure similar to: The type or namespace name 'Operation' does not exist in the namespace 'Spike.BTS' (are you missing an assembly reference?) It appears that during compilation it is trying to resolve the BTS.Operation in the project assembly. I was surprised by this one and have created several projects in the past with BTS. in the namespace without encountering an issue. To illustrate, I created a proje......
2008 Jul 08
12 of 116 | Working with Global Parties - AS2, EDI 'stuff' -
I was recently working on a AS2/EDI project using BizTalk 2006 R2 and came across
an interesting question:
How do I create 500+ parties? and with the AS2 Properties included (or even
HL7 for that matter)
After a little digging - there is the BizTalk.ExplorerOM that we could drill into
and create the parties through code.
However, there's a more hands off approach....using Bindings!!!!
(1) Export Bindings from an existing setup including Parties!!! to
an xml file.
(2) Modify the XML file - particularly the Party information.
(3) Import Bindings back into your new environment.
There's a great blog post by the BizTalk Team on this subject a while back -......
2008 Jun 24
13 of 116 | Biztalk Host Instances not starting - Our production BIZTALK 2006 R2 machine was restarted today but the Biztalk Host Instance services did not start automatically. There was an Event in the Systems Log that stated:
The Enterprise Single Sign-On Service service hung on starting
When I looked the SSO was started. From prior experiences this tells me that the service depends on another service but the registry did not contain that service.
I'm assuming that SSO depends on MSDTC because the SSO db is on another machine. So I added MSDTC as a dependent service.
Here's a post of a similar problem and solution:
http://www.mombu.com/microsoft/biztalk-server/t-sso-hung-on-starting-468886.html
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2008 Jun 11
14 of 116 | New BizTalk Performance, WCF Whitepapers - I was looking for a particular download today on the Microsoft site, and came across a couple of new whitepapers. Check out the Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide which 220+ pages of performance factors, analytic tools, planning/preparing/executing a performance assessment, identifying bottlenecks, how to test, and optimizing operating system / network / database level settings.
Also check out the new whitepaper on BizTalk 2006 R2 integration with WCF. This is a different paper than Aaron’s WCF adapter paper from last year.
And not sure if you’ve seen this, but the BizTalk support engineers are blogging now and chat about orchestration performance and other topics. ......
2008 Jun 10
15 of 116 | BizTalk and Systems Center: Operations Manager w/ BizTalk Management Pack - The BizTalk 2006 R2 Management Pack is a rewrite from the original pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM). It is designed around all of the new features of BizTalk 2006 R2 including RFID and EDI. The pack ties into SCOM very nicely and once...(read more)...
2008 Jun 05
16 of 116 | Tracking EDI Control Numbers in R2 EDISend Pipelines - After months of working on Biztalk 2006 R2 EDI tracking I'm still not sure how the inbound EDI 997s are correlated to outbound EDI transactions.
I need to track certain message properties in the outgoing EDI transactions. For some reason one of our trading partners is not sending 997s for all of the EDI messages we transmit. But I can query their system and see that the transactions were received. So my problem is now finding the outbound EDI messages and somehow resolving the open status.
Using HAT I can see certain EDI message properties are created in the EDI assemble pipeline component. These properties are
<Property Name="InterchangeControlNo" Namespace="http://schemas.mic......
2008 Jun 04
17 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Downgrade - Downgrading from BizTalk 2006 R2 to plain 2006 doesn't seem to be a well-trodden path. It's not ideal, but if you have to do it, the following steps should get you there:
Uninstall BizTalk 2006 R2 from Add/Remove programs
Try to uninstall Enterprise SSO from Add/Remove programs*
Remove the BizTalk databases (detach the databases in SQL Server, then remove the MDF and LDF files)
Delete all the BizTalk-related SQL Server Agent jobs
Unregister the Notification Service for BAM Alerts
Install & Configure BizTalk 2006
* - I had issues with SSO where the uninstall kept crashing halfway through. Eventually removed it by selecting "modify" then removing ......
2008 May 29
18 of 116 | Learnings with the BizTalk Adapter Pack and SAP - Recently I had the opportunity to get some hands on experience using the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 (BAP) and I thought I'd dust off my blog and share some of my takeaways. If you are unfamiliar with the BAP, it consists of a set of WCF-based LOB Adapters/Bindings for: mySAP Business Suite Siebel eBusiness Applications Oracle Database While the BAP falls under the BizTalk brand (and is included with recent purchases of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or Software Assurance), the BAP is also available as a separate stand-alone product. This is cool because as these adapters are packaged as WCF bindings you can leverage them as a part of your "vanilla" .NET 3.0 projects. Just i......
2008 May 27
19 of 116 | Magenic Technology Summit - June 20, 2008 - The Magenic Technology Council (MTC) is proud to present the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008. This two-track, 1 day summit is packed with great sessions and TWO keynotes from Rocky Lhotka (Magenic, creator of CSLA) and Jay Schmelzer (Microsoft, Visual Studio Group PM.) In the Developer track, members of the MTC will present on Writing Better Code, the ASP.NET MVC framework, LINQ indexing techniques, WPF and Silverlight in UX design. The Server track offers sessions on SharePoint branding, SQL Server 2005 health, TFS, and RFID with BizTalk 2006 R2. If you're anything like me, it's going to be tough deciding which sessions to hit. Make sure to bring a collea......
2008 May 26
20 of 116 | ESB Simple Samples on CodePlex - I've finally uploaded my ESBSimpleSamples project to CodePlex here: ESB Simple Samples
It's intended as a quick-start for using the ESB Guidance package, and it has a client library for building strongly-typed service request objects. It has two very simple sample services which return the encoded value of a given character, either in ASCII or Unicode. The services are exposed as Web services and IIS-hosted WCF, and there's a WinForms client which lets you call them directly or via ESB.
Prerequisites
To use the samples you'll need the following up and running:
Visual Studio 2005
BizTalk 2006 R2
ESB Guidance package
ESB Guidance sample app ("GlobalBank" – th......
2008 May 25
21 of 116 | Error configuring BAS - Written by: Michael Stephenson (http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson)
Just came across an error while configuring BAS. In the log file it contained the details below:
[00:36:30 Error Configuration Framework]Feature: [BAS] Failed to configure with error message [<Exception Message="Error -2147467259 occurred configuring feature TPMConfig" Source="TPMConfig" HelpID=" "><Exception Message="An error was encountered in executing the SQL script C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Schema\BTS_Version_Logic.sql on database BizTalkMgmtDb Server WIN2003AD.
Detail: (null)" Source="TPMConfig" HelpID=" "><Exception Message="The database specified has an incompatible ......
2008 May 23
22 of 116 | Magenic Technology Summit - Join my colleagues of the Magenic Technology Council (MTC) at the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008. This geeky, two-track, day-long mini-conference is packed with great sessions and keynotes by Rocky Lhotka and Jay Schmelzer, Group Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio team. In the Developer track, members of the MTC will present on code quality, the ASP.NET MVC framework, LINQ indexing techniques, WPF and Silverlight in UX design. The Server track offers sessions on SharePoint branding, SQL Server 2005 health, TFS, and RFID with BizTalk 2006 R2. It will be difficult to decide which track to attend. Make sure to bring a colleague! This is a free eve......
2008 May 19
23 of 116 | A Generic WCF Service for BizTalk -
I've been playing lately with a few WCF features as well as with the WCF Adapter in
BizTalk Server 2006 R2. As part of that I had a need to set up a receive location
using one of the WCF HTTP-based bindings.
Normally, this isn't a big deal; you can easily use the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing
Wizard to create the receive location and IIS service application for an orchestration
or from a set of BizTalk schemas.
However, this time I did not want to go that way. What I really wanted was just a
simple receive location that would simply receive messages and submit them over to
BizTalk without tying the receive location to a specific service defini......
2008 May 09
24 of 116 | Speaking at KNUG - Karlstad .NET User Group - Yesterday I presented the MasterData Management using BizTalk 2006 R2 talk (I’ll soon have a post out with the presentation in English) I recently held at Developer Summit at the local .NET user group in Karlstad (KNUG). KNUG is a new .NET user...(read more)...
2008 May 04
25 of 116 | Introduction to developing B2B solutions with BizTalk - Ive been doing a little research recently about the B2B capabilities of BizTalk. Based on the content currently available I thought it might be useful to have a B2B 101 style article with some background information and links to useful resources. so here goes!
Background
BizTalk is an integration and business process platform which can help you develop different kinds of solutions (BPM, EAI, ESB etc). One of the key scenarios which BizTalk allows you to develop solutions for is B2B. BizTalk can act as an integration hub between your internal applications and systems at your trading partners. This can help you to develop business processes that seamlessly flow across your organisation......
2008 May 02
26 of 116 | Magenic Technology Summit - Coming Friday, June 20th in Downers Grove, IL The Magenic Technology Summit is a full day of Magenic-provided training. We have lined up an impressive array of speakers and topics in two tracks, .NET development and Microsoft servers. And we have lined up two keynotes. Our first keynote speaker is Jay Schmelzer, who is the Group Program Manager for RAD tools. This basically means he runs the teams for all the Visual Studio designers and related RAD tools. He’s an excellent speaker and should provide some great insight into the present and future of RAD development tools from Microsoft. Our second keynote speaker is Rockford Lhotka, Magenic’s Technology Evangelist and the creator of the v......
2008 May 01
27 of 116 | BizTalk Host Creation and Adapter Assignment Tool Available for Download - What is one of the biggest problems with having to set up BizTalk in a new Environment? Creating all the Hosts, Host Instances, and assigning the Adapters to these new hosts. This process has been made much simpler with the help of the BizTalk Host Setup Tool. This tool is fed by a configuration file to set up the Hosts, install Host Instances, and assign Adapters to those Hosts. This tool also has the ability to prompt for a user password and reset all the Adapters back to the default Host (this was used extensively when I was testing the tool). This will allow one developer to create the solution host layout and easily distribute it to others! How should you set up your ......
2008 Apr 26
28 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2, EDI and RFID SCOM2007 Management Pack Released!!! Yeah baby! -
We've now got official Management Pack support for R2 and the newer things in R2 such
as EDI and RFID.
I've had many students come up to me and say "Mick - what in the world are you talking
about?"
(mind you I get that at home as well - but let's not go there)
Have you ever asked the question:
I wonder how our BizTalk (et. al.) servers are going?
(this is where you could send the work experience kid around to all the servers gathering
details and report back to you by lunch.....but not all of us have work experience
kids)
The answer to this is relatively complex - as you'll need know things like:
Services......
2008 Apr 24
29 of 116 | Writing BizTalk context properties to a message from a WCF service using behaviors - The new WCF adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2 offers a lot of new possibilities. One of those is to write data to the BizTalk Message context properties directly from an exposed WCF Service. A practical use of this technic could be to write the username from...(read more)...
2008 Apr 15
30 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 (incl. R2) Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 Released - Looks like the BizTalk 2006 & BizTalk 2006 R2 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 has been released and is available in the Management Pack Catalog.
To quote the catalogue entry, the management pack:
…is a entirely new … providing...(read more)...
2008 Apr 06
31 of 116 | Microsoft ESB Guidance: Getting Started & Installation - We're looking at using Microsoft's ESB Guidance package to implement a message bus. The bus will be the core of the client's planned Service Oriented Infrastructure, and all existing apps will route communication through ESB. There'll be a few posts coming up covering what it provides, how to use it and some simple walkthroughs, but I'll start with a basic overview and installation tips.
Overview
Ignore the name - ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Guidance is not a set of documents giving you best-practice guidance. It's a Microsoft-coded framework which sits on top of BizTalk 2006 R2 and provides services typically seen in custom service bus solutions (dynamic endpoint resolution, namespace......
2008 Apr 01
32 of 116 | INT05 and INT06 @ TechDays 2008 - SlideDecks - A few days back I delivered a presentation on Microsoft's ESB Guidance Package at TechDays 2008 in Lisbon. The session included demos of the ESB and BizTalk 2006 R2. The slide decks (mostly in portuguese) are avaliable at my skydrive: INT05 and INT06...(read more)...
2008 Mar 30
33 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 with PeopleSoft Integration & MicroSoft BizTalk PeopleSoft Adapter Overview - BizTalk 2006 R2 with PeopleSoft Integration & MicroSoft BizTalk PeopleSoft Adapter Overview...
2008 Mar 25
34 of 116 | Biztalk Configuration Error: Cloned Machines - I recently ran into an error attempting to configure a Biztalk 2006 R2 instance on a virtual machine. I had a virtual services box (where Biztalk was installed) and another virtual SQL box (where the Biztalk configuration was kept). However, I kept getting an error during the configuration deployment step:
Exception of type 'System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException' was thrown.
After googling for a bit, I ran into an excellent article by Wade Wegner explaining that the two virtual machines appeared to have the same CID value (basically, a unique machine identifier for MSDTC). This can occur when a virtual machine is a clone of another and the CID value isn't made unique ......
2008 Mar 24
35 of 116 | BTSUG - on This Wednesday! BAM + XBOX-ing -
Happy Easter,
It's user group week and this Wednesday we're going to look at BAM (as well as playing
some xbox!)
Wow another month has gone by and there’s been some great work done in the land of
BizTalk.
There’s been a BizTalk Operations guide released and a whole swag of BizTalk whitepapers/articles
published also – keep an eye on my blog (Main
link, and the BizTalk
Specific Info Link) for all of these and more.
If you haven’t checked out the BizTalk Adapter Pack V1.0 then it will be available
from MSDN Downloads from April 1 (no April fools joke) – US Date, April 2 for us.
So what’s coming up in March I hear you ask.......
2008 Mar 19
36 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Branch Edition - What's the go? -
I get alot of questions about this - for those of you who have been mentally scarred
with early editions of BizTalk (haven't we come along way since then :-) there was
a BizTalk Partner Edition (lower priced for hub/spoke type implementations)
which was limited in some way with the number of Orchestrations/Tradining Partners
etc etc. (like 10 Orchs, 2 partners from memory).
With BizTalk 2006 R2 we have the Branch Edition which
retails for approx USD$1500 and it gives you........
- BizTalk Business Rules Engine (alot of people are wanting to use
the BRE as a centralised rule store in a cost effective manner, until now it was BizTalk
Standard a......
2008 Mar 18
37 of 116 | Expose an orchestration as a web service difference between BizTalk 2004 and BizTalk 2006 - Another issue we ran into while upgrading a client’s BizTalk 2004 solution to BizTalk 2006 R2 is related to exposing an orchestration as a web service. Our client has a website that calls a web service exposed orchestration. The website sends to BizTalk...(read more)...
2008 Feb 29
38 of 116 | Commerce Server Orders Adapter on 64-bit BizTalk in a 64-bit Host - Recently I have spent a lot of time working with the Commerce Server 2007 Orders Adapters for BizTalk. Getting it set-up and running on a single machine with BizTalk and Commerce Server together was not too hard (although anyone who thought BizTalk 2004 was hard to install should try installing Commerce Server). Getting everything to work correctly on a 64-bit BizTalk Server installation was another story. I was running BizTalk 2006 R2 64-bit with a 64-bit process Host. I was setting up the Commerce Server Order Receive Adapter just like I had many times, only to receive the following two errors: 90% of the time: Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software......
39 of 116 | Commerce Server Orders Receive Adapter: Search clause factory failed - Sometimes getting BizTalk to communicate successfully with Commerce Server 2007 using the provided Orders Adapter can be tricky. Here is a quick tip when initially setting up the Orders Receive Adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you receive the following error: Creating the search clause factory failed for Commerce Server Orders Receive Adapter. Message You are not authorized to perform the requested operation. Make sure the user the BizTalk Host is running under is added to the Commerce Server Order Web Service using azman (I made the user an Orders Admin) and that anonymous access is disabled on the site hosting the web services. If you are on the same domain and Windows Authenti......
2008 Feb 27
40 of 116 | SOA and BPM Conference 2007 Recordings on TechNet Spotlight -
A set of video recordings of sessions from the SOA & BP conference are posted on the Spotlight! sight. This is a fantastic channel for IT Pros to get access to key content from MS events worldwide. Please see the list of sessions below including the event keynote.
SOA and Business Process issues reach across the entire organization from developer service enabling existing investments to architects recommending IT standards to business analysts optimizing processes and business owners investing in their IT portfolios. The Microsoft 2007 SOA and Business Process Conference provides guidance across this spectrum and go over Microsoft's current portfoli......
2008 Feb 22
41 of 116 | Where has all the thinking gone! - As Microsoft readies Windows 2008 for launch coupled with SQL server 2008 launch and the re-launch of Visual Studio 2008 ?? I am left feeling a little uneasy... When Visual Studio 2008 hit the streets it quickly became apparent that it was incompatible with a number of other products not least BizTalk 2006 R2 on recently launched!!! It is now also clear that Microsoft aren't supporting BizTalk 2006 R2 on Windows Serve 2008 either and of course it goes without saying that BizTalk will not support SQL 2008 or is it SQL 2008 will not support BizTalk. So with a sweep of arrogance all the good work done around BizTalk is swept aside. Do Microsoft expect customers to really wait until 'Oslo' gr......
2008 Feb 04
42 of 116 | Resharper 4 in Two Weeks? - The good folks at JetBrains have recently announced that Resharper 4.0 Early Access Program will be available in two weeks. It's like one of those long awaited things like Duke Nukem Forever, but it looks like R# will beat it to the punch, fortunately for me. For those like me, I can honestly say I haven't been as productive in Visual Studio 2008 as I can say I have been without it. Many people will use the workaround as stated many times around the blogs, but I've just stayed away until they can get it working just right. Instead, I've been happy using it with Visual Studio 2005 in the mean time.
The only thing now that keeps me with the Visual Studio 2005 sitting around continues t......
2008 Feb 03
43 of 116 | Dynamic WCF Step for BizUnit - Ive recently put together a WCF step for BizUnit to help us with predominantly with projects using BizTalk 2006 R2. However remember that BizUnit can be used without BizTalk
Anyway this article will provide some information about the how this is implemented. There is also a link to the sample application at the bottom. In the sample I demonstrate how to call the service in a normal test, then how to use dynamic code and reflection to execute the same test. This dynamic code is basically what is implemented inside the custom BizUnit step. The third test demonstrates how to call BizUnit and allow it to execute your test.
Aim
The aim of the step is to recreate the standard SoapRequest......
44 of 116 | MsBuild Task for WCF Service Publishing for BizTalk - A number of months ago I did a couple of posts about how we integrated the Soap and WSE web service publishing wizards into our build process as MsBuild tasks. These posts are located at the following url's:
Soap Adapter: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2006/09/16/91369.aspx
WSE 2 Adapter: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2006/09/16/91371.aspx
Now that BizTalk 2006 R2 is around I want to have the same approach for the WCF Publishing Wizard.
Before I get into the details of this, it is important to note that WCF provides a hosting model that means you do not need to host services in IIS and they can be hosted by In Process BizTalk hosts. Although ......
2008 Jan 31
45 of 116 | RFID - Where are the innovative solutions? - I've been involved/interested in RFID for over 3 years now and even with BizTalk 2006 R2 + RFID server I am still looking forthe really innovative solution, the jaw dropper, the one you want to tell everyone about. At the moment I find most customers are still stuck in the 'tag and reader' world without cottoning on to the bigger picture. If anyone out there knows differently please let me know....
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2008 Jan 28
46 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 Posters - For all of those stuck in the BizTalk 2006 R2 world as I am constantly, Microsoft has released two new posters with the BizTalk 2006 R2 Architecture. These are rather large PDF files that you could print out if so desired through a plotter. Each of these are about 5-6MB, but make a great reference.
Download each at your leisure:
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Database Infrastructure Poster
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster
Get them while they're hot!
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2008 Jan 27
47 of 116 | Interactive BizTalk 2006 R2 Poster - This is a great use of Silverlight! Take the BizTalk 2006 R2 capabilities poster, add Silverlight and tons of info and what we have is qan excellent technical resource! Go here now
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2008 Jan 21
48 of 116 | BizTalk Downloads - New BizTalkGuru downloads: First Look at the WCF Adapter Video - BizTalk 2006 R2 Multiple Binding Files in an Application - BizTalk 2006 Splitting POP3 Email Attachments - BizTalk 2006 Building and Deploying with MSBuild - BizTalk 2006
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2008 Jan 15
49 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 / R2 Publishing Throttling State #2 (imbalanced message publishing rate, input rate exceeds output rate) - BizTalk 2006 / R2 Publishing Throttling State #2 (imbalanced message publishing rate, input rate exceeds output rate)...
50 of 116 | BizTalk 2006 R2 - Throttling - Perfmon Parameters - My Experience - BizTalk 2006 R2 - Throttling - Perfmon Parameters - My Experience...