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51 of 74 | The BizTalk Server product team is looking for your feedback! - We are conducting baseline usability studies of BizTalk Server 2006 over the next several months (Feb – May) and are looking for BizTalk 2004 hands-on users (IT Pro/Developer/Business) to give feedback and help direct the vision for future versions of BizTalk! Your input and participation as we develop our products is extremely valuable to us and helps us ensure that our products address your needs. You will receive a free piece of Microsoft software (or choice of an MSPress book) for your time and feedback.  If you are in the Seattle/Redmond area and would like to participate, please contact nancyp@microsoft.com as soon as possible to get on the schedule!...

52 of 74 | BizTalk Adapter Development Blog - Hey Check out the new "BizTalk Adapter Development" blog! Michael is looking for suggestions, comments, complaints, problems, and ideas on BizTalk Server 2006 product samples, papers, and documentation relating to adapter development. URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_adapter_development...

53 of 74 | Updating BizTalk Server Services and Accounts After a Password Change - "Your password will expire in x days." Remember seeing that string of scary words in a dialog box sometime before your BizTalk server stopped functioning It`s quite common in the enterprise space that an administrator specify how often you must change the password in the workstation`s account policy. Your network administrator can force you to change your password every so often. By default, passwords are set to expire every 42 days in Windows Server 2003. Microsoft recommends having users change their passwords every 30 to 90 days. While this is definitely best practice and highly recommended, it can cause problems if you are using accounts for BizTalk Server in which the passwords are set......

54 of 74 | Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2 - As always, looking for feedback on the installation guides. For those of you that only had a chance to see the Beta 1 docs, you`ll notice some new items such as the dependency matrix, progress graphics, multiserver considerations, and .doc vs .htm file format. Thoughts on improving these documents Remember that these are not designed to provide prescriptive guidance on multiserver build outs. Those documents are coming later. Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2 Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Server...

55 of 74 | BizTalk Server 2006 User Task Permissions Dependency Matrix - So how about something like this This is not in the game plan, but I think it should be and would like to get some voting in before I churn too many cycles on it. Feel free to leave comments or ping me directly. Thanks! Take a look at the image below (click to enlarge). Does this help address your questions on what security rights you need to perform tasks Are there other things you expect to see on this chart Can you provide a list of things you want to see Is the chart too confusing If so, how would you like it to be presented Any other feedback in this area Note: This chart is pre-release content and is subject to change....

56 of 74 | BizTalk Server Learning Survey - International - If you live outside of the United States or Canada, we want to know more about your experience with BizTalk Server! How did you initially learn to use BizTalk What are your preferences for learning new topics What can we do to make BizTalk easier to learn and use Send e-mail to wssinfo@microsoft.com to obtain a secure code and link to the survey. Complete the survey for a chance to win a portable MP3 player! (Please note the survey language in your mail: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified or Chinese Traditional)...

57 of 74 | QuickStart Guide to Installing BizTalk Server 2006 (Beta 2) - For Beta 2 we are introducing a quick start guide (similar to the blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/articles/211384.aspx for BizTalk Server 2004). I really want to hear feedback on this content. It`s geared towards users who want to build a single server installation of BizTalk Server 2006, generally for a proof of concept. The content is very basic (too basic) and requires that you understand a number of things prior to installation. So my questions are: Is this useful Should we ship it with the product in addition to the full blown online installation guides (step-by-step) Is it too basic Should it be more complete Look for this when Beta 2 ships....and SEND ME FEEDBACK! [:)]...

58 of 74 | Screenshots in the installation guide for BizTalk Server 2006 - We tend to hear a lot of mixed reports around this subject. What are your thoughts Do we need to include product screenshots in the installation guide Will it help What screenshots Looking forward to comments.........

59 of 74 | BizTalk Server 2006 Platform Dependency Matrix - We all know how daunting the installation and configuration of BizTalk Server can be. It`s an amazing product that rides on top of an amazing platform that can become quite difficult in trying to understand all the complex platform dependencies needed for a feature. For BizTalk Server 2006, we have made huge strides in solving this problem by creating a product that is capable of sniffing your machine, finding out what software is missing, and installing it for you. Unfortunately, we can`t do it for all of the pre-requisites needed. There are also times in which you will be building out machines created for the sole purpose of serving up a few select features of BizTalk Server. Then the qu......

60 of 74 | BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 Installation Instructions have been updated - We are pleased to announce that the BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 Installation Instructions have been updated. The installation instructions explain how to install BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 on Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows Server 2003. The known issues file describes known issues about this beta release.  Whats newThe installation instructions have been updated with steps on installing BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 with SQL Server 2005 (Yukon). It also includes a number of bug fixes based on customer feedback. What files are included with this downloadBTS2006_KnownIssues.htmThis is the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 list of known issues.   BTS2006_Installation_Guide_WindowsSe......

61 of 74 | Installing & Configuring BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 - I want your feedback!!! - Now that BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 is out the door (Yay!!), one of the first things you will be doing is checking out the installation instructions. The installation instructions for BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 are available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/LinkId=46922. For this release, we created separate platform based installation guides. The following guides are available: Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 on Windows XP Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 on Windows Server 2003 Installing and Configuring BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 on Windows 2000 Server This is (what I consider) a welcomed departure from the 2004 version. All three guides wal......

62 of 74 | Effective Writing for Adapters - Many people, both within Microsoft and in third-party companies, have written successful adapters for Microsoft BizTalk Server. This task can be difficult, and this paper is intended to present some of the "tricks of the trade" that these developers have learned, in the hope that these will help others avoid common problems. This document is structured as a set of issues that programmers face when writing adapters, and provides guidelines for resolving these issues. These guidelines can be read in any order, although you may find that reading the whole document first will make the individual guidelines easier to understand. If you have comments and suggestions regarding future versions of t......

63 of 74 | New Blog - BizTalk Server Performance & Stress Team! - Hey check out the new action from the BizTalk Server Performance & Stress Team! http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkperformance/ The first blog dives into understanding the throughput and capacity of BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 and how to monitor and observe your system behavior.  Looks like they plan to provide a host of entries on optimizing, tracking, adapter performance details, host configuration, and lots more!...

64 of 74 | BizTalk Server Developer Center - Come check out the BizTalk Server Developer Center, the home of developer information for the BizTalk Server developer community. This site provides up-to-date information on how to integrate people, systems, and data to develop solutions for your business with BizTalk Server. http://msdn.microsoft.com/biztalk/...

65 of 74 | Large message support in BizTalk Server 2004 - Jean-Emile Elien, a developer on the Messaging Runtime team, has posted a nice blog about large message support for BizTalk Server 2004. http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/archive/2005/02/28/381700.aspx...

66 of 74 | Learning BizTalk Server 2004 - Are you getting started with BizTalk Server 2004 Are you confused as to where all that good information is If so, this QuickStart guide is a great place to start! This is the third in a series of QuickStart guides to help you get moving with BizTalk Server 2004. The QuickStart Guide to Learning BizTalk Server 2004http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/articles/380519.aspx...

67 of 74 | BizTalk Server 2004 Product Documentation Updates - The Microsoft BizTalk Server documentation team is pleased to announce the release of the RTW+6 documentation set for BizTalk Server 2004 (Documentation Update 2). This update contains numerous fixes to the existing documentation based heavily on customer feedback that was gathered through our documentation feedback mechanism. The updates are available for download at the following locations:        BizTalk Server 2004 Core Documentationhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxfamilyid=CDD47461-F4E2-4BC6-B5C2-2018AFF2823D&displaylang=en        BizTalk Server 2004 User Guide for Information Workershttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxFamilyId=9F718376-28DB-498E-989A-008728F41......

68 of 74 | Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Web Services Enhancement (WSE) v2.0 Released - The BizTalk Adapter for Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 integrates secure Web services with BizTalk Server 2004. The Adapter for WSE is implemented using the WSE 2.0 framework for Microsoft .NET, and supports WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy, and WS-Policy. The Adapter for WSE can be used for securely calling Web services and publishing BizTalk orchestrations as Web services. Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxFamilyId=BA643360-E9DC-4FC5-8D60-8E6C5ECA7861&displaylang=en  ...

69 of 74 | BizTalk Server 2004 PowerToys - Erik Leaseburg, a consultant with Microsoft Premier Services for the past five years and an expert in BizTalk Server, has collected the best PowerToys on the Web! Get your BizTalk PowerToys now!http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/articles/365678.aspx...

70 of 74 | BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 Released - BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 just released! This release contains a collection of hotfixes, security fixes, and performance enhancements. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxdisplaylang=en&FamilyID=f4a5ab9e-d599-4cc8-abdf-ae6ae68bac3d  ...

71 of 74 | Step into the BizTalkVirtual Lab for Free - Have you seen http://msdn.demoservers.com It`s simple no complex setup or installation is required to try out BizTalk running in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab. As part of the MSDN Virtual Lab, you will have full access to BizTalk through the following modules: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Creating Schemas Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Creating a Schema Map Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Enabling Message Routing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Creating a Custom Encryption Pipeline Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Creating a Deployment Package Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Tracking and Debugging Messages Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 - Creating and Debugging an Orchestration Micr......

72 of 74 | Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapter Migration Toolkit Available - The Adapter Migration Toolkit allows you to reuse your Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 custom components (AICs, preprocessors) in a BizTalk Server 2004 environment. See here for details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxFamilyId=3383F89E-8223-4DB5-947A-1873C4C555BB&displaylang=en  ...

73 of 74 | Microsoft BizTalk Server Roadmap - The roadmap for BizTalk Server has been published. Come check out what we have in store for BizTalk Server 2006 and beyond! http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/roadmap/...

74 of 74 | Calling all Programmer Writers! - The Microsoft E-Business User Education team is looking for an extraordinary person to join our team. This team is responsible for creating content for BizTalk Server and Commerce Server. The position requires a technically-adept person with senior-level writing skills who can deliver customer-responsive documentation for the developer audience. The right person for this job will have an excellent understanding of E-Business technologies, their business problems, and the audience for this content. The right candidate will have a passion for customer work and the drive to produce content for our customers. Requirements include experience in developing C++, C#, or VB samples or scenarios, an ......