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2008 Aug 28
101 of 889 | BTS Guys Understand SOA and Contract First - Aaron Skonnard has put up a good post about why BTS developers understand SOA and contract first. This is a hot topic at Solidsoft Towers and James and Duncan certainly have championed this at work for some time.I was talking with James the other day about the ASHX HTTP handler that bypasses all of the unnecessary XML->Object and Object->XML deserialisation and serialisation that goes on. We agreed that as a lightweight 'web service' for BTS running at the core of a SOA architecture it is essential as it reduces the evil of latency that BTS can introduce (due to its primary task of ensuring messages are durable which means trips to SQL Server that could be avoided in a request-respo......
102 of 889 | Cool XSD Validation Function for Orchestration - As I promised in an earlier post, here's a cool XSD validation function that can be called from within orchestration. Just add to a library - I tend to put it into a BizTalk Utilities library full of useful little functions that complement orchestration (most of which should be provided by the orchestration engine, but that's a rant for another day!).public static void ValidateDocument( XmlDocument businessDocument, string schemaStrongName ){ // Constants const int PARTS_IN_SCHEMA_STRONG_NAME = 2; const int PART_CLASS_NAME = 0; const int PART_QUALIFIED_ASSEMBLY_NAME = 1; // Parse schema strong name string[] assemblyNameParts ......
103 of 889 | Fed up of deploying BTS assemblies the 'standard' way? - Well, this is a little tip about deploying a BizTalk assembly quickly and easily without having to unbind, undeploy, redeploy, rebind and all that wonderful stuff.If you recompile a BizTalk assembly that does not affect the current bindings then all you need to do is the following: Open a view onto the GAC by clicking Start->Run and then typing assembly Compile BizTalk assembly Drag and drop the compiled assembly from the bin\Development folder (we're developing, right?) into the assembly view window Restart BizTalk NT service from BizTalk Administration snap-in, Services snap-in or the command line using net stop It really is as simple as that!...
104 of 889 | Using a Map with Large Messages - I was intrigued the other day about how maps were behaving in BizTalk Server 2004 with regard to potential memory problems. BizTalk Server 2004 gives us great large message support through streaming messages into the message box. However, what if we specify a map in the Receive port, or indeed anywhere in BizTalk (Orchestration or Send Port)?Well, BizTalk implements maps as XSLT stylesheets, and the way I understand it, the code uses the XslTransform class to perform the transformation and will load the input message into the DOM. This will require a significant memory footprint if the message is large!This is often overlooked and is worth pointing out......
2008 Aug 23
105 of 889 | BizTalk Message to System.String in BizTalk Server 2006 - I've needed to cast my BizTalk message as a System.String in a couple of occasions so I'm going to put it here to remember how to do it. 1. Create a Variable of type System.Xml.XmlDocument (I'm calling it xml_Temp here) 2. Create a Variable...(read more)...
2008 Aug 15
106 of 889 | Classes the week of August 25 at New Horizons of MN - New Horizons of MN, located in Edina MN, has the following classes running next week. Most classes are offered either as a public class here at our facility or as a remote class, which is the same instructor led class, but instead of coming in to our office, you take the class from anywhere. For more information on what remote learning is, please visit http://www.nhmn.com/Services/RemoteLearning.aspx .
IT and Developer Courses:
2793 Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=MI2793
8/27/2008 - 8/29/2008
2933/2934 Developing, Deploying and Managing Business Process and Integration Solutions using BizTal......
2008 Aug 13
107 of 889 | A BizTalk Server-based EDI Solution - Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) encompasses the largest share of real-world business-to-business commerce—nearly 90 percent of the current market—and is growing rapidly year over year. In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine, Mark Beckner introduces you to the EDI functionality within BizTalk Server 2006 R2 including schema creation, document mapping, EDI delivery and transmission, and exception handling. See our MSDN Magazine archives for more articles about BizTalk....
2008 Aug 12
108 of 889 | BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide -
This guide provides information for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.The emphasis is on BizTalk Server, but the performance evaluation methods and performance testing scenarios are useful for analyzing the performance of virtualized server applications in general. This guidance will be of interest to both the IT Pro and Developer communities.
To download a copy of this guide, go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123100.
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2008 Aug 08
109 of 889 | BizTalk RFID at Tech.Ed 2008 IT Pro - I participated, as a co-speaker, in the TechEd IT Pro conference at Orlando during June this year. Our team had a few sessions here: 1) Deep Dive Into BizTalk RFID: This was a one hour interactive theater style presentation. Here, we started with a general overview of the BizTalk RFID, and then explained the concepts in BizTalk RFID using a shipping/receiving scenario. We used a fixed RFID reader and did a complete end to end demo on how a RFID business process could be set up that can get events from this device and store them into a SQL Server database. The attendees were really excited by the fact that events could go all the way to SQL database without writing ev......
110 of 889 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 8-1-2008 - Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 1st August 2008. Key ones include: Infrastructure Development & Operations • SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 Update 1 • Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 • Overview Series: Windows Vista® Performance and Tuning • Preload Package Tool for Configuration Manager 2007 Solutions & Solution Development • BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide • Video: Adding Video or Audio Media to an ASP.NET Web Application • Microsoft Provisioning System SDK - June, 2008 • Windows Client Springboard Series: The Microso......
2008 Aug 07
111 of 889 | Admin console wish list feature - I’ve been fortunate enough to have to go through a bunch of suspended items on our production server from the last week and do some impact analysis – understand what failed, why it failed, what is the impact on the business, and how we can mitigate (technically or non-technically) I have to admit this is very interesting work, but I suspect only until it gets somewhat repetitive... Anyway, this has made me come up with a new wish list item for BizTalk, this time for the admin console – I was going through all the items in the list, for each one I had done some investigation, and possibly raise some queries with others to understand the process/impact/etc. Getting ans......
112 of 889 | SQL Server 2008 RELEASED - Microsoft has released to manufacturing SQL Server 2008. This version of SQL Server provides new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services. SQL Server 2008 is available in the following editions: SQL Server 2008 Enterprise, a data management and business intelligence platform that provides scalability, data warehousing, security, advanced analytics and reporting support for running business-critical applications. With this edition, it is possible to consolidate servers and perform large-scale online transactional processing. SQL Server 2008 Standard, a data manag......
2008 Aug 04
113 of 889 | August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine now online - The August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. Here's what's in the issue: Data 2.0: Expose And Consume Data in A Web Services World The ADO.NET Data Services Framework creates a simple REST-based framework for exposing and consuming data-centric services easily. by Elisa Flasko and Mike Flasko BizTalk EDI: Build a Robust EDI Solution with BizTalk Server We introduce you to the EDI functionality within BizTalk Server 2006 R2. by Mark Beckner Silverlight: Create Animations with XAML and Expression Blend In this excerpt from his upcoming book, Laurence Moroney explains the basics of Silverlight animation and the animation tools available in Expression Blend. Write ......
2008 Jul 31
114 of 889 | BizTalk: Create Message based on deployed schema - Here is technique for generating an instance of a BizTalk message (a.k.a, XmlDocument) based on a deployed schema. It requires references to the following assemblies:
Assembly
Location
Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipeline
%Program Files%/Microsoft BizTalk Server
Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM
%Program Files%/Microsoft BizTalk Server/Developer Tools
In a class library that has references to the above libraries, create a public class with the following two public methods:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using Microsoft.BizTalk.Component.Interop;
using Microsoft.BizTalk.ExplorerOM;
name......
2008 Jul 28
115 of 889 | QuickLearn Releases Expert Series Training! - QuickLearn has just released a new series of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 training classes for advanced BizTalk developers. The Expert Series classes provide a drill-down on specific BizTalk features and toolsets that are currently covered only at a high level...(read more)...
2008 Jul 25
116 of 889 | Deploying Pipeline Components in a CI Build - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman]
Most of the interfaces you implement for a pipeline component are boilerplate code, so I tend to put them in a base class and just override what's needed. If the base class is in a separate assembly from other pipeline components, and you're using a CI build process to build them all, you may have an issue getting your subsequent pipeline projects to build.
In a typical MSBuild script, I'll get the projects from the solution file(s), and then:
build the C# projects with MSBuild
copy any pipeline component assemblies to Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Pipeline Components
shell out to devenv for the BizTalk ......
2008 Jul 23
117 of 889 | Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide - The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide is the third instalment in a series of guides intended to provide easily accessible, hands-on guidance to our customer and partner community. This 145 page guide is available on MSDN, TechNet and as a separate DOCX, PDF or CHM download alongside the already available “Microsoft BizTalk Server Operations Guide” and “Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimizations Guide” The guide provides relevant information to IT professionals to enable them to make educated decisions about the advantages and tradeoffs of using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to virtualize BizTalk Server environments. It will be refreshe......
2008 Jul 22
118 of 889 | Recursive Orchestration -
This post describes how to implement a recursive BizTalk orchestration using correlation sets. The need for recursive orchestrations came up during one of my previous projects, where a message needed to be resubmitted with a changed status code, so that a new instance of the same orchestration type could pick it up for processing. Next to that, it's a fun excersize!
You can't recurse orchestrations using the Call Orchestration or Start Orchestration shapes, because the Orchestration designer just doesn't let you select the same orchestration type as the one you're trying to start/call from. I haven't tried fooling the orchestration editor by editing the .odx file in the xml editor, but I......
2008 Jul 21
119 of 889 | A Great BizTalk Scenario - Two Way Port being Serviced by two one way backend ports -
This one came from Paolo Salvatori (a
senior PM within the MS Connected Systems Division Team... I know a bit of a mouthful)
whom has gotten in touch with his creative side and drawn a picture for all us common
folk :) - well done Paolo.
The scenario is - a Request/Response Port is published at the 'front
end', goes through BizTalk and the work is done by a backend system that operates
via a One-Way Send and BTS gets the response via another
One-Way Receive.
The thing I like about Paolo's piece of work is that he shows all the Message Context
Properties required to be set by BizTalk for message correlation.
Which makes this a Messaging Only Solution and NO Orchestrations......
2008 Jul 19
120 of 889 | Using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V -
While building up some BizTalk R2 developer images I can across the answer to my question
"Is R2 supported on 2008 Hyper-V?"
Look no further than here.....
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c5d86ad-5e17-4ff2-abc9-5a81177f4b30&DisplayLang=en
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2008 Jul 18
121 of 889 | How can I find the installed hotfixes on the server/workstation? - Looks like a silly question, but recently I struggled to find the installed hot fixes on our server. We install certain hotfixes on all of our BizTalk server. One of the critical ones is http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943165 to solve the high CPU...(read more)...
2008 Jul 16
122 of 889 | Biztalk pour les éditeurs - Introduction - Cette présentation est la première d’une série qui aura pour objectif de vous faire découvrir les bénéfices qu’un éditeur peut tirer de Biztalk Server. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 offre une infrastructure capable de connecter les applications existantes (quelle que soit la plateforme) et de constituer, d'exposer et de consommer de nouveaux services. C’est un outil qui permet donc aux éditeurs d’intégrer leurs applications dans des architectures SOA et et ainsi assurer l’interopérabilité de leurs outils au sein d'une plateforme unifiée. De plus, il existe une vaste gamme d'adaptateurs de technologies et d'applications pour BizTalk Server. Grâce à une pri......
123 of 889 | CreateXmlInstance() with Multi-Root Schemas -
The DocumentSpec class
in the Microsoft.BizTalk.Component.Interop namespace of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipelines
assembly is commonly used in custom pipeline components (particularly assemblers in
disassemblers) to represent a compiled BizTalk schema (a document specification).
This class has one interesting method: CreateXmlInstance(),
which can generate an sample instance XML based on the associated schema [1]. Recently
I saw a question in the BizTalkGurus forum
about how to use this functionality if you had a schema definition with multiple potential
root elements.
Turns out its pretty easy, once you understand how DocumentSpec works and how......
2008 Jul 15
124 of 889 | Checklist for Reviewing Services for SOA Compatibility - I’ve got SOA on the brain lately. I’m in the process of writing a book on building service-oriented solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 R3 (due out right around the product release), and, trying to organize a service review board at...(read more)...
125 of 889 | Checklist for Reviewing Services for SOA Compatibility - I’ve got SOA on the brain lately. I’m in the process of writing a book on building service-oriented solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 R3 (due out right around the product release), and, trying to organize a service review board at my company. Good times.
So what’s a “service review board”? It’s a chance to look at services that have been deployed within our development environment and chat with the developer/architect about various design and deployment considerations. In reality, it’s a way to move from “just a bunch of web services” (JBOWS) to an architecture that truly supports our stated service-oriented principles. Now, clearly there are services that are meant to solve a specif......
2008 Jul 14
126 of 889 | BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide + MsgBoxViewer - Microsoft has published a few days ago a new guide around optimization of BizTalk Server performance. This is a lengthy guide (over 200 pages), but it has a lot of very interesting information, some of which you can't find anywhere else, and there's...(read more)...
2008 Jul 09
127 of 889 | BizTalk PERFORMANCE Optimisation Guide - First Edition!!!! -
Guys - this document has recently hit the shelves and what a great guide it is. Written
and reviewed by a huge team within MMS mostly - the two main authors Ewan
Fairweather and Rob
Steel (both MS and very much project/client oriented guys - out in the
field!) did a superb job.
Firstly - grab the Performance
Optimisation Guide
(checkout Ewan and Rob's blogs as there's some great bits on there, as well as a section
dedicated to the BizTalk Performance Explorer)
What's the meaty stuff I can expect to read? (I hear you ask...)
1. It serves as 2 things - a prescriptive guidance and two - best
practices around optimisation
(It's also great to see BizUnit in there for ......
128 of 889 | BizTalk: Distinguished fields and Promoted properties - additional information - Interesting information in KB:
"How to use distinguished fields and promoted properties in a BizTalk Server project" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942250
"...
A promoted property may not be available as a promoted property after you write a value into the message context. This situation can occur if the value that you write into the message context has the same name and namespace that was used to promote the property.
Properties that have a null value are not permitted in the message context. Therefore, if a null value is written into the message context, this value will be deleted.
..."
BTW What is it "a null value"?
Is i......
129 of 889 | Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide has been released. -
The new Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide has been released to the web.
This document provides guidance & best practices on optimizing BizTalk Server performance for demanding production environments. It is based on numerous real-world engagements with customers by the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team CAT (Rangers), Premier Field Engineering and MCS.
The guidance consists of the following 4 sections:
Getting Started: an overview of the BizTalk Server functional components that can affect performance. It also describes the phases of a BizTalk Server performance assessment.
Finding and Eliminating Bottlenecks: The Fi......
2008 Jun 21
130 of 889 | BizTalk Filters not Getting Imported -
... or how automatic formatting of XML files can make you miserable.
During the last few days I've been helping out a client get ready for deploying a
BizTalk solution. One of those things this involved was taking the existing BizTalk
Binding XML files and making minor edits to them so they would match the new environment.
I did the changes, and the BizTalk Administrator used the updated Binding Files to
import them into the new BizTalk Servers. They imported without any errors at all.
A couple hours later he noticed some test messages were getting incorrectly routed
to the wrong send ports (there's a lot of messaging only stuff in this solution)......
2008 Jun 09
131 of 889 | BizTalk Server 2006 R2: To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before! - This week I’m going to embark on a dark and mysterious journey, fraught with great danger, both real and imagined. I’m about to begin development of a BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN 3.5) project with the assistance of Microsoft Consulting Services...(read more)...
2008 Jun 08
132 of 889 | PipelineTesting 1.1.3.0 Released -
I just uploaded a new update to my PipelineTesting library.
This one comes courtesy of Gregory
Van de Wiele, who kindly made me aware of a nasty bug: The library wasn't handling
schemas with no targetNamespace correctly when adding them to the pipeline context.
Because of this, you needed to specify the documentSpec name as "#root"
instead of simply "root". This has now been fixed in this version and I
added a new unit test to make sure it doesn't come up again. Thanks a lot Gregory!
As usual you can download the updated code/binaries from here.
BizTalk
Server, Testing
...
2008 Jun 07
133 of 889 | BizTalk RFID sessions at Tech-Ed Dev week - This week at Tech-ed dev week I had 1 session on BizTalk RFID titled "Microsoft BizTalk RFID in Real World Deployments: Connecting Movements in the Physical World to Enterprise Applications". We showed how developers could use BizTalk RFID and very easily collect events from RFID devices and integrate those events into backend applications using BizTalk Server. I think session was well received. We had 65+ attendees in the session with overall score of 7.73 which is in top 5 sessions in our track. Other than this I also recorded a video for my first video podcast. Tech-ed team had done a great job of having production team onsite to record 20 minutes sessions. Title of our sess......
134 of 889 | My Tech Ed Demos - Thanks to everyone who came to my session on port binding options in BizTalk Server yesterday. You can find the demos here including the visual studio solution, binding files for BizTalk and the PowerShell script I used for setting up and running my demos. ...
2008 Jun 04
135 of 889 | TechEd US - highlights coming - including Silverlight 2 announcement - Bill Gates kicked of TechEd US with a keynote that included some important announcements. Keep an eye on the following site for all the news over the next few days: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/default.mspx This press release summarises the key announcements: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jun08/06-03TechEdDevPR.mspx - headlines copied below to help you quickly see. "Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 will be available this August in 20 languages worldwide. Internet Explorer 8 is the next version of Microsoft’s popular browser, and in beta 1 it delivers significantly improved standards support and developer platform investments with enhanced use......
2008 Jun 03
136 of 889 | Updated site for BizTalk Server - We've updated the BizTalk Server web site, it looks pretty nice. I think the 3D warped spiderman web graphic thingy is going to sell a lot of enterprise software! ;)
Seriously, though, the content is quite good. I think it's remarkable that we have so many customers – you can read about 'em there on the site. It's nice to be able to tout the Gartner Magic Quadrant recognition. For those who don't know, Gartner's an industry analyst and a couple weeks ago they updated their view of Microsoft as a provider of Enterprise Application Server technology. We were pleased with their analysis. The linked content off the BizTalk site is good to......
2008 Jun 02
137 of 889 | Convert existing 2004 or 2006 HIPAA, BaseEDI, or Covast maps to BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - I am on a project that requires that I take all EDI maps that were created using BizTalk preR2 and convert them to the new schemas. I looked here to be disappointed to find that everything except maps were listed. I started re mapping (dragging lines...(read more)...
138 of 889 | TechEd 2008 talk on unattended deployments... -
Are you going to be at TechEd this week? I’ll be delivering an expanded
version of the talk I gave on May 15 at the last Twin Cities BizTalk User Group.
The talk (mostly demos!) is all about achieving unattended deployments with BizTalk
using Team Foundation Server (with TFS Deployer.)
The session is on Wednesday at 12pm, titled “SOA07–TLC –
Automated Remote BizTalk Server Deployments with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation
Server” in Green Theater 2. (That’s a mouthful…)
See you there!
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2008 May 30
139 of 889 | BizTalk "Message Aggregation For Email" Pattern - One of our BizTalk developers had a requirement to collect related messages and send a single email summary with details about those messages. I built the example below to help her out.
In this scenario, a series of independent, but related, messages are sent to BizTalk. Each of these messages will have a “batch ID” which connects them as well as a “batch count” value which identifies the total number of messages in the batch. As you might expect, I’ll need a convoy to collect these messages. The interesting part was how to build up the email data which summarized the results of the processing for a given batch.
First, I have a schema that represents an individual message.
As you can see,......
2008 May 28
140 of 889 | Sydney BizTalk User Group On Tonight -
Hi folks, love to see you there
Check the details out at - http://sydbiz.org/Lists/Events%20Calendar/DispForm.aspx?ID=15&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fsydbiz%2Eorg%2Fdefault%2Easpx
Also one of the things we've been working on in the last month is a Private
BizTalk User Group mailing list
oztalk@groups.yahoo.com
This mailing list is 'invite only' and is intended to enhance learning within the
community, as well as an avenue to get bts (&related) problems solved - delivered
straight to your inbox.
There are currently Brisbane & Sydney User Group members on board (more
groups to come shortly)
How to get on:
- an invite was sent to your email address registere......
2008 May 27
141 of 889 | Duplicate Column Name When Deploying BAM Definition -
I've been playing around a bit with Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server
2006 R2 and ran into a problem deploying a BAM definition XML file I had just created
in Excel.
When I tried to deploy the definition, I'd get an error similar to this one:
Deploying Activity... Done.
Deploying View... ERROR: The BAM deployment failed.
Encountered error while executing command on SQL Server "NEWTON".
Column names in each table must be unique. Column name 'abc_id' in table 'bam_AbcEvents_Dim_abc'
is specified more than once.
I checked my BAM definition several files (even checking IDs on the raw XML) ......
142 of 889 | SF Bay Area Connected Systems - San Francisco Bay Area Connected Systems User Group On June 26, 2008, please join us for the next scheduled Microsoft Bay Area Connected Systems Division User Group meeting. This month’s topic will be “Patterns for Delivering Enterprise Class Services”. If you would like to join us for this event, please click here to register! Location:Microsoft San Francisco OfficeGolden Gate Conference Room835 Market Street7th FloorSan Francisco, CA 94103 Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Food and Beverage will be served at 6:30 PM and session will start at 7:00 PM. Prizes will be raffled off at the end of the session. Patterns for Delivering Enterprise-Class ServicesPresenters: Brian Gaffney......
143 of 889 | Speaking at Teched US - Teched US is here!!!, this year I am presenting two sessions in the SOA track and I have the honor of co-presenting with my good friend Joe Klug who used to be a Product Manager on the BizTalk Server team. On Tuesday 3 rd I will be presenting a session...(read more)...
2008 May 25
144 of 889 | Profesional 5 Estrellas - Biztalk Server 2006 - Hola a todos...
Dando un pequeño paseo por la web de Desarrollador 5 Estrela y Profesional 5 Estrellas, ahora tu puedes comenzar tu capacitación en BizTalk Server 2006 dentro del programa Profesional 5 Estrellas. En esta nueva certificación, comprenderás una tecnología de servidor de administración de procesos de negocios, que permite a las compañías automatizar y optimizar su productividad.
En el mismo sentido, puedes tomar curso tambien de SQL Server 2005, Unified Comunications y Biztalk. la direccion del programa aqui.
Mirenlo esta interesante, posteare al respecto del programa en unos dias, y les contare como me fue :P
Saludos......
145 of 889 | WOW! It's the Technology of TechEd Track - Following Kleefy's not so unexpected announcement, I've taken over the Technology of TechEd Track for this year's TechEd Australia event. Here's the spiel that I wrote for the track. Come on a journey behind the scenes at Tech•Ed. This track will take you end-to-end in the technology deployed to make the event the showcase it is. From hardware planning through network analysis and contingencies to application development and deployment including stops in Security and Management, mobility and virtualisation. Hear how it was done from the practitioners who made it happen. Here's our current thinking for the track sessions - let me know what you think: Track KickOff What is this ......
2008 May 24
146 of 889 | Resizing A Virtual PC Hard Drive - Holy Diver... The other day I was working on one of my Virtual PC demo images, when I noticed I was running out of disk space. When I originally created the Virtual Hard Drive (.VHD) I just accepted the default size of 16GB without thinking, but more and more often I find I need to install other products such as SharePoint Server, BizTalk Server, PerformancePoint Server, which inevitably require extra disk space. After a little "liveling" (what is the live.com equivalent of "googling"?) I found a...(read more)...
2008 May 22
147 of 889 | BAM Tracking and Failed Messages - Mikael Håkansson has a post called How to Replace Tracking with BAM in BizTalk that features a performance comparison he made for disabling global tracking in BizTalk Server 2006 and how that would look if you replaced that with BAM - in hard figures...(read more)...
2008 May 19
148 of 889 | BAM Poster available at Microsoft Download - The BizTalk Team anounced that a new poster, the BAM poster , will see the light of day. I really like the posters that have been released as companions to the BizTalk Server documentation. I'm not really the grapical guy, at least not when it comes...(read more)...
149 of 889 | BAM Poster for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - BAM Poster for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has been published by BizTalk Server Team.
Click Here to download BAM Poster.
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150 of 889 | Microsoft has released BAM Poster for BTS 2006 R2! - Microsoft has recently added another addition to their Poster Series. They have now added Business Activity Montoring Poster which provides an overview of the entire life cycle of a BizTalk BAM implementation. It illustrates the design of the observation...(read more)...