I wish you all a happy new year 2009. This is my last post of the year and number 100 (special, not really more a coincidence). I expect a lot to happen in 2009. New release of BizTalk, ‘cloud computing’ (than fortunately does not have an acronym like Web 2.0, SOA or ESB) and credit crunch (yes there will be a recession, but we will get over it). I am very motivated to make 2009 a great success,
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Friday, 19 December 2008
Writers Award
Posted on 09:18 by Unknown
Yesterday I have received the Inter Access Writers Award from our new CEO Michel de Meijer during Christmas drink. I was very happy to be recognized as a writer and to be able to making the brand Inter Access stronger in the Dutch press. I have written a couple of articles in Software Release Magazine and Software Development Network. Article involved BizTalk, Internet Service Bus (BizTalk
Thursday, 11 December 2008
BizTalk Server 2009 Sandbox
Posted on 11:49 by Unknown
As anybody doing BizTalk probably knows that BizTalk Server 2009 CTP is available. I for one wanted to try it out so I download a couple things to get a BizTalk Server 2009 instance up and running. I download a couple of trail software, mimic a situation where one does not have a MSDN subscription available but still is able to create an BizTalk Server 2009 environment: Windows Server 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
BizTalk Server 2009 Public Beta
Posted on 01:53 by Unknown
Thanks to Richard I noticed BizTalk Server 2009 public beta is available (Microsoft Connect). After struggling a bit with my browser (Vista, IE7) and File Transfer Manager I downloaded: BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Installation and Configuration Guide BizTalk Server 2009 Accelerators Beta Evaluation Download BizTalk Server 2009 Public Beta
Monday, 8 December 2008
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Documentation Updated
Posted on 00:25 by Unknown
A couple of days ago new BizTalk Server 2006 R2 documentation was released. It is available in two formats : CHM and HxS. Technorati:BizTalk 2006 R2BizTalk Server 2006 R2BizTalk
Troubleshooting BizTalk Server with SOAP Adapter
Posted on 00:16 by Unknown
I found out that Microsoft released another whitepaper around BizTalk Server recently than the one from Dennis Mulder. There is an other around troubleshooting SOAP adapter in docx format. Summary: Microsoft® BizTalk® Server uses the SOAP adapter and orchestrations to receive and send Web service requests. The SOAP adapter enables orchestrations to be published as Web services and consume
Thursday, 4 December 2008
SOA & BPM Conference 2009
Posted on 01:31 by Unknown
I will be attending SOA & BPM Conference next year end of January. Today I received an email from Paul Sanford that one can expect the following during the conference: Network With Your Peers Arrive early on January 27th for the welcome reception co-sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics. There will also be a reception the evening of January 28th hosted by Global Premier Sponsor HP.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Developing Integration Solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 and Team Foundation Server
Posted on 08:10 by Unknown
Dennis Mulder has written a whitepaper available through MSDN about Developing Integration Solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 and Team Foundation Server. Last BTUG meeting he did a presentation around BizTalk and TFS with focus on msbuild. Whitepaper The provides developers with techniques for designing, developing, and deploying solutions within Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006 (R2) in
Monday, 1 December 2008
BizTalk Sandbox Installation on Vista
Posted on 00:54 by Unknown
There are various approaches for developing BizTalk solutions in team environments e.g. isolated "sandbox" models versus shared development servers, the use of VPC or physical boxes and moving from development to staging to production. Having a “sandbox” is best option, which is something I learned recently during a session at BTUG. Having an isolated environment to develop, test and build your
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Service Architecture Pocket Guide
Posted on 23:08 by Unknown
Thanks to Richard Seroter I stumbled on the Service Architecture Pocket Guide, which provides an overview and prescriptive guidance for designing services on the .NET platform. The guide contains the following chapters and resources: • Chapter 1, "Service Architecture," provides general design guidelines for a service application, explains the key attributes, discusses the use of layers,
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
BizTalk Server and "Oslo" and .NET
Posted on 01:02 by Unknown
In light of the announced and presented project OSLO, Microsoft’s modeling platform, during last PDC makes it interesting how it will relate to BizTalk. The reason I think it is interesting is, because of OSLO architecture (displayed below). If you look at runtimes, than BizTalk could be a runtime for models. At Microsoft’s BizTalk Server website it is stated in the roadmap that: In fact,
Monday, 24 November 2008
Last Dutch BTUG Meeting This Year
Posted on 10:10 by Unknown
Last BTUG meeting this year will be held at Microsoft Dutch Headquarters in Schiphol. This time the agenda is as follows: BizTalk Implementation at Interpolis (Large insurance firm in Holland); PDC Experience; Business integration with BizTalk; Microsoft about new developments on BizTalk. Last session will probably go to into new features of BizTalk 2009. This will also be one the
Friday, 21 November 2008
A First Look at WF 4.0, Dublin, and Oslo
Posted on 09:41 by Unknown
During PDC I could not attend any session on WF 4.0 or Dublin. I focused more on Azure and OSLO. Having just blogged about David Chappell’s talk today I noticed he has written a whitepaper about WF 4.0, Dublin and OSLO too. These technologies can be used together or independently (see below). I have taken this picture above from the whitepaper. David did a talk during Teched about the
Future is in the cloud
Posted on 08:34 by Unknown
David Chappell did a talk about Windows Azure Services Platform today at Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) in Barneveld (not according to his schedule). In stead of travelling thousands of miles in a plane to see/hear him talk, I now could step into my car drive a couple of miles (I live in Ede, which is nearby). His talk is centered around Azure Service Platform whitepaper he wrote recently and
Saturday, 15 November 2008
WCF Restful Services
Posted on 11:25 by Unknown
Steve Maine did a session about Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)for building Web 2.0-style services that use URIs, HTTP GET, and other data formats beyond XML. See how these features can be applied to AJAX web sites, "REST" applications, and data feeds. Now Jon Flanders has his book released on Safari about Restful .NET. Book description is as follows: RESTful .NET is the first book
Friday, 7 November 2008
BizTalk Deployment
Posted on 06:14 by Unknown
Very recently there is a new version of BizTalk Deployment Framework available through codeplex. It used to be hosted by Scott Colestock. It is 4th release of the framework. I will use it in my High Performance Learning for BizTalk environment (see post part I, post part II, post IIa, post part III, post part IVa). I will continue with this environment any time soon, discussing development, then
Thursday, 6 November 2008
BizTalk WCF Whitepapers
Posted on 08:36 by Unknown
In my previous post I talked a little bit about what going to happen with BizTalk. It going to be around a very long time and Microsoft has big investment in it and keeps innovating and supporting it. Latest examples of this are recently new published white papers about BizTalk and WCF: Using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Adapters in BizTalk Server Consuming and Hosting WCF
What is going to happen with BizTalk
Posted on 08:17 by Unknown
During PDC some BizTalk folks wondered what is going to happen with BizTalk now Dublin is coming. I talked with some Microsoft people from the Netherlands and they say is going to be around for at least a couple of years if not longer. In past Charles Young posted a post around difference between Dublin and BizTalk. This week Aaron Skonnard did a post about OSLO and future of BizTalk. I believe
Modeling with M
Posted on 01:13 by Unknown
This week I posted my lap around OSLO experience and in addition to this today Jon put out a intro into M video of approximately 40 minutes. It shows how to model with SQL tools inside SQL Server 2008 versus modeling in M using IntelliPad. In both cases tables are created, data is added and shown through a simple application made in Visual Studio 2008 using Dynamic Data Entitities Web Application
Monday, 3 November 2008
Views and Opinions about OSLO
Posted on 09:32 by Unknown
I am fairly new to DSL and especially now with OSLO. In my previous post today I did my own lap (experimenting) with OSLO and only scratch the surface. There are some experts in world though around DSL and better understanding of OSLO than me. I am at the beginning of a long and steep learning curve, but I eager enough to accept the challenge to learn and understand it thoroughly. Here are some
My lap around OSLO
Posted on 04:02 by Unknown
Now I am home I can start experimenting with things I heard at the PDC. In my previous post I created a Azure Service; my first one. This time I am going to do my own lap around OSLO. In some post you have already read what OSLO is; if not here’s a brief explanation. OSLO is a platform for model-driven applications. It contains three components: “M” (The language for authoring models & DSLs)
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Creating Windows Azure Services
Posted on 07:48 by Unknown
This can be done with October CTP of Windows Azure. You will be needing to install IIS 7.0 and Azure SDK first. Everything in this blog post can be done today as long as you have access to Azure Platform. I will go through developing a service, testing and debugging it locally, deploy it in the cloud and look at analytics. For creating a service you need Visual Studio, .NET, IIS 7 and WCF. When
PDC 2008 Impression
Posted on 02:20 by Unknown
I am back as most of PDC attendees are. It was exciting to be able to attend PDC in LA. I was not to thrilled about downtown LA, but I was in good company and had lots of opportunities to enjoy myself in the evening like Universal Studios, Lakers game at Staple Center and some local bars. As for PDC is was just awesome to witness announcement of Azure, seeing OSLO in action, watching session
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
M at PDC
Posted on 14:58 by Unknown
I ran into Shoshanna Budzianowski today at PDC. She and I hooked through linked in after a post about OSLO months ago. She is Product Unit Manager, Repository and Modeling at Microsoft Corporation and involved in M. We had a nice talk not just about M, but also kids and so on. She also introduced me to Don Box who even autographed a OLSO Model Language book for me. I have got two copies now of
PDC So far
Posted on 08:55 by Unknown
I keep appearing in some ones blogs constantly everyday. I do not know the guy. Look at blog posts of Robert Jan who does describe the experience here at PDC very well. Today PDC will kick off with a key note by Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research. I keep you posted.Technorati: PDC 2008
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Cloud Computing
Posted on 17:18 by Unknown
At PDC I bought this book called 'Cloud Computing Web-based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online'. I read two chapters before I went to the first keynote on monday. Concept of cloud computing Ray Ozzie explained just really falls in place with content in first two chapters. This book is focused on 'Cloud Computing' in general looking at Microsoft, Amazons and Google's
Microsoft OSLO available
Posted on 14:15 by Unknown
Finally I can witness one of the first sessions about OSLO at PDC; now I and rest of world get to actually see it. There will be another frenzy and plethora of blog posts being shed next couple of hours. OLSO is M, Quadrant and Repository; language, tools and store/share models. More than 150 Dutch people are here and some already blogged about OSLO, therefore I am going to be lazy and refer to
Monday, 27 October 2008
The Keynote
Posted on 11:46 by Unknown
I will be short since there will be a blog frenzy over Microsoft Azure. During keynote this cloud windows platform new name was announced. So Windows Cloud OS is now: Azure. Available only PDC attendees for now, but later on for general public. Technorati: Microsoft AzurePDC 2008
Sunday, 26 October 2008
WCF History Lesson
Posted on 13:38 by Unknown
Pre-conference session of Microsoft Software Legend Juval Lowy today seems more a history lesson of WCF than something completely new. All stuff that was shown and demoed was .NET 3.0. If you read his book WCF Programming than you have a the knowledge all attendees got today during this pre-conference session. For me it was/is history repeats it-self and story about WCF and origins is the same.
Touch down in LA
Posted on 06:53 by Unknown
I have arrived in LA as you can see on the pictures. Impressive view from the plane on LA when we landed. I had a taxi trip to hotel with Edward and some old colleagues from him Robert Jan en Rutger. All of us went for a nice meal at Mexican Grill downtown. Today I will attend pre-conference WCF.
Friday, 24 October 2008
Ready for take-off
Posted on 06:59 by Unknown
Just came back home after a few days with the family in Limburg. I packed my bags and am ready to leave to Los Angeles to attend PDC. Sunday I kick off with pre-conference; WCF. Monday to Thursday I will focus on OSLO, SSDS, Windows Cloud and Dublin . See you there.Technorati:PDC 2008
Saturday, 18 October 2008
Microsoft 2.0 continued
Posted on 07:51 by Unknown
Yesterday I received Microsoft 2.0 book by Mary Jo Foley. I have already read half the book by now and I do not think it will be the book be reading on my way to LA. Book starts a bit slow on why it was written and she was not able to talk to big shots at Microsoft like Ray Ozzie, Steve Ballmer and so on about which way Microsoft I heading in the future. After first pages it started to get
Thursday, 16 October 2008
SOA and cost reduction
Posted on 00:32 by Unknown
Will SOA lead to cost reduction? Recently I followed this discussion (answers on the question) amongst some of my colleagues. Well on the long-run this may be one of the drivers to adopt SOA, but an enterprise will need to invest upfront. In adaption of SOA investments in legacy systems are not down the drain. SOA is not applied inside enterprises to rip and replace all legacy systems.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Microsoft codename Dublin: you want to know some more !
Posted on 09:51 by Unknown
Today I found some interesting posts about Dublin. Very interesting one comparison of BizTalk and Dublin. Another one by Darren Jefford quote: ‘BizTalk is by no means dead’. And last but not least this one by Damir Dobric. In less than two weeks more information during PDC will be available.Technorati:PDC 2008
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Microsoft 2.0
Posted on 23:36 by Unknown
As PDC is coming closer I noticed that Mary-Jo Foley blog all about Microsoft is a good resource to track to news about PDC and coming announcements (like Windows Cloud). She also wrote a book a book called ‘Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era’, which I recently ordered through Amazon. Notice 2.0 version like web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and so; everything seems
WSCF Blue
Posted on 06:03 by Unknown
WSCF.Blue has recently been made public (available) on Codeplex. My colleague Edward Bakker is project leader on this project and I am happy to join in his conquest to make this a better tool. Together with Buddhike de Silva, Benjamin Santosh and hopefully some other developers I hope to make this a very useful tool as Christian Weyer states in his blog post. He is the 'father' of this project. I
Monday, 13 October 2008
Platform as a Service: PaaS
Posted on 01:41 by Unknown
Today I received an message through LinkedIn from a BizTalk colleague in the field Jonathan Gurevich about Cloud Platforms. I got this message from him concerning my blog post Window Cloud. David Chappell has written a whitepaper 'A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms'. In this paper I saw terms like on-demand platform and platform as a service (PaaS). Last one a new acronym to be added to a
Saturday, 11 October 2008
OLSO CTP
Posted on 00:09 by Unknown
At PDC a mere two weeks away attendees will get a first-hand look at OLSO through a CTP. Three technologies that will make up OSLO will be in it:• A language – codenamed “M” – that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages (DSLs) and data models • A relational repository – that makes models available to both tools and platform components • A tool – codenamed “Quadrant” – that
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Windows Cloud
Posted on 18:42 by Unknown
I recently found something interesting while browsing through the web. Something called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). What is this? Well it is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Ok and it seems that one is able to use Amazon EC2 to host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance
Monday, 6 October 2008
First SharePoint Services 3.0 HOL Experience
Posted on 04:47 by Unknown
In my previous post I downloaded a VPC from Microsoft ‘Developing with SharePoint Services 3.0 and visual studio 2008’ together with some hands on labs. On my laptop containing a Vista OS I did the following:1) Deploy VPC2) Start WSS-July2008-V73) Install Office On VPC (Plus version MSDN)4) Unpack HOL5) Start VS 2008 and exerciseI created a web part through HOL called HelloWorld, deployed it and
Developing with sharepoint services 3.0 and visual studio 2008
Posted on 02:10 by Unknown
VS 2008 has been released for some while and same accounts for SharePoint Services 3.0. As a developer or experienced .NET Architect and so on you might want to know how to develop with SharePoint Services. I am interested how and therefore I downloaded a time limited VHD (30th September 2009) containing Windows SharePoint Services SP1, Visual Studio 2008. I also wanted some Hands-on Labs to with
Thursday, 2 October 2008
PDC Dublin and .NET 4.0
Posted on 00:47 by Unknown
I survived yet again another edition of Munich Oktoberfest. Now it is back to life and hard work. PDC is next trip I will make and I read some new announcements of .NET 4.0 and that there will preview of this with something called Dublin. Nice codename, I visited Dublin last year I must say a great town. Connect new technology to such a codename must promise something. Dublin as it is stated on
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference 2009
Posted on 06:10 by Unknown
Yesterday I attended BTUG Meeting at ATOS Origin Utrecht. At end of this meeting some announcements were made about next BizTalk Server Release and that next SOA & BPM Conference will be held not this year, but January 2009. Exact dates were mentioned as well 26-29 of January. Fact that it will not be held end of this year is probably due to PDC 08, where some BizTalk related things will be
Saturday, 20 September 2008
BAM Training Kit
Posted on 09:55 by Unknown
Microsoft recently added a training kit for Business Activity Monitoring. I downloaded the kit and installed it on my BizTalk 2006 R2. This kit kit contains an overview of the BAM feature ("BAM Training.doc"), a BAM solution sample ("BAM Training_Hands-On Exercises.doc"), sample code files to use with the sample solution ("BAM Training_Lab Files" folder), and a PowerPoint slide deck to use in an
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Dutch BTUG Meeting
Posted on 00:56 by Unknown
I sometimes see posts of BizTalk User Group Meetings taking place in other parts of the world than where I live in the Netherlands. Coming Monday there will be one BizTalk User Group Meeting (part of BTUG world wide, dutch chapter) too at ATOS Origin in Utrecht. Following presentations will be given:* BizTalk Implementation at Kas Bank;* Experiences BizTalk at Unive (Insurance company);*
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Posted on 01:10 by Unknown
I finally decided to add myself on FaceBook. Facebook is not used by many in the Netherlands, people use Hyves more. I like Facebook though and did not have a look at it before. My family in Canada already found me so I am connected to them. Also so people I know in the IT space are connected now. I also added some pictures of my children and so on. So now you can find me there too. Feel free to
Friday, 12 September 2008
Some more OSLO
Posted on 07:58 by Unknown
Microsoft OSLO is getting more attention as PDC 2008 is approaching. In eWeek there is a new article published about 'The Origins of Microsoft's Oslo Software Modeling Platform'. Santosh Benjamin already posted some great comments on that article. But there is more look at article published on PDF zone called 'Microsoft's Oslo Helps Non-Programmers Build Data-Centric Apps', which essentially
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Asynchronous or synchronous?
Posted on 04:52 by Unknown
Currently I confronted with a dilemma concerning synchronous or asynchronous processing of batches. A customer I work for currently process batch in the back-end system. This customer is demanding a solution in which processing can be controlled and back-end systems are efficiently used. At the moment this not the case, systems are sometimes running idle and batch processing is done during
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Microsoft Netherlands
Posted on 12:31 by Unknown
This afternoon I went to Microsoft Head Office in the Netherlands at Schiphol. It is their new Office I not yet had the chance to visit. Microsoft Netherlands held an presentation about the new way their magazine is going to be in the future. Microsoft will focus on content (articles) itself, since it is all technology and out sources the publishing aspect to Array publications that also
C# and .NET 3.5
Posted on 00:39 by Unknown
In light of announcement of BizTalk Server 2009 I started reading a book called C# in depth. Why? Well new version of BizTalk will support Hyper-V, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, SQL 2008 and Windows Server 2008. This book is designed to bring you to a new level of programming skill, which dives deeply into key C# topics—in particular the new ones. By reading this book I hope to learn to reuse
Monday, 8 September 2008
Workflows
Posted on 12:13 by Unknown
On Mike Breeze blog I noticed two posted about last TechEd08 about building RFID solutions with BizTalk and Getting Workflows Running and talking in Your Applications. First one I could not much with since I do not have an environment with BizTalk running together with RFID the another one was for me more interesting. The slide deck and code could be downloaded. I tried out the examples on my
Face lift
Posted on 08:19 by Unknown
As some of you might have noticed I have given my blog site a new look. After almost two years of blogging I got fed up with template from blogger one can standard add. So I took the liberty of taking a new one. I have chosen the frozen-age look and changed the banner to a picture of myself taken during my stay at LEAP 2008 in Redmond. It is me with mount Rainer in the back. I also left so things
BizTalk 24*7 BlogDoc
Posted on 01:07 by Unknown
Saravana Kumar has added new functionality to BizTalk 24*7 called blogDoc, which basically a MSDN style structured grouping of BizTalk blog articles out in the public. It’s a consolidation of blog posts from different BizTalk blogs. Check it out.Technorati:biztalk
Saturday, 6 September 2008
BizTalk Server 2009
Posted on 03:50 by Unknown
BizTalk Server 2009 is the new name instead of BizTalk Server 2006 R3. Does this mean that it will be a complete new version of the product of just an extension of BizTalk Server 2006 like R2? What can be expected from this version is :- Support for the latest Microsoft Platforms including Hyper-V Virtualization, Visual Studios 2008, .Net 3.5, SQL 2008, and Windows Server 2008. - Enhancements to
Friday, 5 September 2008
PDC 2008 I can't wait
Posted on 00:34 by Unknown
Today I stumbled over a blog by Marcel Fernee from Microsoft The Netherlands. I know him through projects I have done with customers and he helped me out a couple of times. I read his post about coming PDC. As a employee of Microsoft he went to their internal TechReady Conference in Seattle. He mentions that there will be a lot announcements from Microsoft. In his posts two code names where
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Microsoft ESB and OSLO
Posted on 03:59 by Unknown
Today I browse around some RSS feeds about BizTalk and came across two interesting things. First I interesting thing I found was a discussion on MSDN about ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server. I recently wrote an article together with Wouter Goedvriend about ESB Guidance package to be publish hopefully in Dutch Software Release Magazine coming fall. We posted a question: Is Enterprise Service Bus (
High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part IVa - Developing Solutions
Posted on 01:38 by Unknown
A couple of weeks ago Jean-Paul Smit released BizTalk Software Factory V1.5. I myself want to start with next part of my High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk i.e. development. This factory is useful if you want to start developing BizTalk solutions. In a previous post I already described the previous version of the BizTalk Software Factory. This version has improved a lot and there
Thursday, 28 August 2008
SaaS Expert Panel
Posted on 01:08 by Unknown
Today I noticed I was admitted to participate in Software As A Service Topic of Computable a big ICT magazine in the Netherlands. The magazine has a large website for jobs, opinions, events, ICT topics and so on. There are a number of ICT topics like ERP, BI, Infrastructure, etcetera and SaaS is one of them. Quite lot of ICT company have people in these topics acting as experts. I lately focus
Monday, 18 August 2008
Microsoft PDC 2008
Posted on 01:18 by Unknown
I enjoyed my holiday in Czech republic. I stayed a couple of week near Krkonossky narodi park in house around trutnov. Very nice scenery, lovely place to walk or cycle. During the winter the area is suitable for ski-holiday, there are a lot of sloops near Spindleruw Mlyn or Pec Pod Snezkou.Now it back to work again, finishing some articles, blog post around high performance learning for BizTalk
Monday, 21 July 2008
Olso story continues
Posted on 04:25 by Unknown
A few days ago an article appeared on eWeek titled ‘Oslo: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud’. This article displays a nice outline, where Oslo is heading. With PDC coming in October Oslo will also get its fair share of attention. I for one hope to be able to go there together with my colleague Edward Bakker from Inter Access. If you are interested you should look at the session agenda. For now I will
Thursday, 10 July 2008
BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer
Posted on 04:44 by Unknown
One of my High Performance Learning Environment post reader gave me a hint to have a look at BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer. In past I have used this tool and I forgot that it could be useful to apply on the environment I created. The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer (version V1.1)performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer
Monday, 7 July 2008
High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part III - Tooling
Posted on 00:53 by Unknown
First step for High Performance Learning environment lasted two days in total, setting up OS, AD, SQL Server, BizTalk Server en SCOM. Next step is install tooling, one is of course VS 2005 to be able to develop BizTalk artifacts like orchestrations, pipelines, maps and schema’s. For alignment of BizTalk Server R2 to align with VS 2008 you have to wait until R3, that integrates with not only VS
Friday, 4 July 2008
High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part IIa - Configuration SCOM
Posted on 05:44 by Unknown
Last bit of my High Performance Learning Environment was configuring System Center Operation Manager (SCOM). At least I installed operation manager and in my menubar I have operation manager and access to command shell, operation console and web console. Screen shot of web console can be seen below.In setup of SCOM you can find installation documentation, it also tells you how to deploy SCOM on a
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part II - Install & Configuration
Posted on 08:15 by Unknown
In this part I will lay out what I have done to create the environment.Setting up VPC one will need the following Iso's or DVD's:VPC:* Microsoft Virtual PC 6.0.156.0 (2007)OS:* en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_with_sp2_cd1_X13-05460* en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_with_sp2_cd1_X13-05460BizTalk:* en_biztalk_server_2006_r2_developer_x86_x64_dvd_X14-00846SCOM:* en_scom_2007_cd_X13-72525SQL Server 2005:*
Sunday, 29 June 2008
SOA Design Patterns
Posted on 23:56 by Unknown
Thomas Erl will publish a book soon about SOA Design Patterns. An article about SOA Design Patterns Patterns can be found in SOA World June issue. Later this year a SOA Symposium for practitioners will be held in Amsterdam with some workshops later on. In these workshops one can gain certification for SOA Consultant, SOA Architect and SOA Analyts. On the website launch of SOA Design Patterns book
Saturday, 28 June 2008
High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part I - Concept
Posted on 07:39 by Unknown
In post I would like to explain my view of how one can be very productive inside a BizTalk Development/Production Environment by setting up the right learning environment, installing open source tooling to help you as a developer/administrator with testing, setting up projects, development, deployment, monitoring and so on. Schematic overview below will outline what I am going to do in near
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Interesting stuff
Posted on 08:18 by Unknown
Sometimes I wander around on the internet looking for more interesting things about BizTalk. I came across of Benny Mathew post about open source utilities for BizTalk. I found out there are more than I thought there were and there post gives an excellent outline what can be found on codeplex. Another interesting thing I found was about SOA, Sam Gentile gathered and written a great deal about a
Sunday, 22 June 2008
BizTalk and SCOM 2007
Posted on 09:44 by Unknown
This week I came across some interesting stuff around BizTalk. I found this post about using MOM to restart BizTalk Server and reminded me of a project I done two years ago setting up MOM to monitor a complete BizTalk Group, consisting of two instances of BizTalk in load balancing configuration, a clustered SQL Server (passive-active mode).So if working with MOM and experiencing some problems
Monday, 16 June 2008
Improve productivity with BizTalk Software Factory
Posted on 09:36 by Unknown
Jean-Paul Smit released v1.0 of BizTalk Software Factory and supplies guidance for developing BizTalk applications. This release is based on the project Dick Dijkstra started a year ago on CodePlex (BASF). It has been extended with functionality, consists of source code, some documentation and one can do the following:* Create BizTalk multi project solution structures using a wizard * Create
OLSO is coming to us
Posted on 07:47 by Unknown
Wandering around in the blogosphere I stumbled on a announcement that the first three components of OSLO, model driven connected-systems development initiative of Microsoft will be made available during Microsoft Professional Developers Conference(PDC) this October. I hope I will be able to attend this event and witness it all. Components made available are:* Modeling tool* Repository*
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Wandering through BizTalk land
Posted on 03:25 by Unknown
As I wander through BizTalk land I find more and more interesting stuff, when I read other people’s BizTalk blog. There more people, smart people blogging about BizTalk as I found out. This product has major capabilities and is gaining a lot popularity over last couple of years. I am just contributing a tiny bit by blogging with my experience with the product together with my interest in service
Friday, 13 June 2008
Custom Configuration BizTalk Solutions
Posted on 03:09 by Unknown
I recently found this post about custom configuration for a Biztalk Solution by Micheal Stephenson. I found very usefull since I posted something about configuration files before. I just scratched the surface in possibilities concerning configuration for BizTalk. Micheal gives you great insight in how custom configuration can be done. In extension this post I found another possibility written by
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Microsoft ESB Guidance
Posted on 05:38 by Unknown
Since November 2007 Microsoft ESB Guidance 1.0 is out there. Recently a customer asked what ESB actually is and if it runs in a production environment. I am talking here about Microsoft ESB implementation. During DevDays 2008 in Holland Christian Weyer in his talk about BizTalk Services pointed out that ESB is a super pattern, which can be implemented with a variety of technologies. Again I hear
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
BizTalk Exception Management
Posted on 23:05 by Unknown
The latest publication of BizTalk Hotrod Magazine is available and can be downloaded. The topics in this issue covered are:• BizTalk Exception Management • Exposing Business Rules Engine Policies as WCF Services • Tools of the Trade • Parallel Convoys in BizTalk • A Glimpse of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 WCF Adapters • Smart Use of XSLT BizTalk • In the beginning • What's Under that Hood?I have
Saturday, 24 May 2008
DevDays 2008 Day 2
Posted on 02:06 by Unknown
Second day at DevDays 2008 was for me a complete day of networking and talking to former colleagues and professionals of competitors like Macaw. I only attended one session by David Platt. When I came home I saw a copy of Software Release Magazine 3 (Dutch), which contains my article about BizTalk Services, and I felt joy and satisfaction. Technology can be so cool. Thanks Dre de Man for giving
Thursday, 22 May 2008
DevDays 2008 Day 1
Posted on 07:13 by Unknown
Today I attended Dutch Developer Days, which started off with a keynote from David Platt. He did a session about why software sucks. And if ever heard of him or read his blog than you basically know everything that has been said during the talk. My conclusion or lesson learned is that user experience is important and Microsoft already knows that for years. Next session I went was BizTalk Services
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Social Networking Rocks
Posted on 05:51 by Unknown
During my holiday in Como Italy I read two book from Havard Business School Press. One called ‘Thinking for a Living’ by Thomas H. Davenport and ‘Future of Work’ by Thomas W. Malone. Both very interesting books and I enjoyed reading them. Especially ‘ Thinking for a Living’ that I and all IT people do these days, our brain provides a living. Cool, because during my years a student I did a lot of
Friday, 16 May 2008
Dutch DevDays 2008
Posted on 03:32 by Unknown
Next week I will attend the Dutch DevDays 2008 at RAI Amsterdam. And according to their site it will give attendees inspiration through international speakers like Daniel Moth and Ingo Rammer. What I noticed in the program is that there are a lot of international speakers this year, which might be the cause that attending it costs nearly 400 euro’s for two days now. Subjects involve .NET
SOA and ESB Architecture with BizTalk
Posted on 02:47 by Unknown
Yesterday I found an interesting piece written by Robert Hogg about SOA and ESB Architecture with BizTalk at Wrox. It is an Wrox Blox PDF containing 25 pages about SOA, BizTalk and ESB (Microsoft ESB Guidance). You can purchase it for $7 US, which is not much these days. It is good information and published last February. So if you have not read or heard about it yet, check it
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Marketing campain
Posted on 10:48 by Unknown
Marketing campaign of Inter Access has stared and I am in it. When you go to their job portal you will see me in action. I must say a look a little bit awkward on film, but I am happy with the result. Things said in this movie is about YOU architect, where we sell or advocate that one is architect of its own career (success) and this can be made possible at Inter Access. Like in a previous post
Monday, 12 May 2008
BizTalk Server Architecture and considerations
Posted on 10:28 by Unknown
I have just returned from a two week holiday (Como Italy) and I was just reviewing my blog and noticed that I haven’t done much posting lately. Well that is about to change and this will be first one of a number of things I would like to share with you regarding some opinions and views around BizTalk Server now in context of approach/business/architecture.I will first mention that at Inter Access
Friday, 25 April 2008
Returning to Inter Access
Posted on 10:41 by Unknown
Last week I have returned to my old employer Inter Access (IA). I had a rather short career at Getronics PinkRoccade (GPR). It was not what I expected to be at GPR, but I was not entirely comfortable in the situation I ended up. Well that can happen and so I returned to IA, where they gave a warm welcome back. Today I participated in their new spring campaign for recruitment of new future
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Exerimenting with BizTalk Services
Posted on 07:23 by Unknown
Last year during SOA and BPM Conference I heard about BizTalk Services during my visit there. Justin Smith did an introduction about it. Later during LEAP 2008 in January Clemens Vasters did a talk about the same subject. I just finished an article for a Dutch magazine called Software Release Magazine and I experimented with some samples from the SDK. Before I could do that I installed IE 7 on my
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Dutch Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference 2008
Posted on 10:58 by Unknown
Before I start my post about the annual dutch Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference in Groenekan near Utrecht I attended today I would like to announce that I have I have recently joined Getronics PinkRoccade for a role as technical consultant in technologies like BizTalk Server, Integration and Messaging. After working two years for Inter Access I thought it was time for a new step in my career.
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns with BizTalk Server 2006 R2
Posted on 01:29 by Unknown
Who does not know the book Enterprise Integration Patterns written by Greogor Hophe and Bobby Wolf? Or has visited their website. Patterns can help you solve design issues. For instance how can I split messages or how do route based on envelope or body (content) or aggregate information into one single message. So with patterns you can design integration solutions. Microsoft’s server product
Monday, 3 March 2008
Some more LEAP 2008 Notes and leftovers
Posted on 04:51 by Unknown
Momentarily I am recovering from a bad flu, which kept me from doing work for more than week, and I came across some interesting notes from myself and some colleagues from Inter Access. These notes were written during LEAP 2008 at Kim Cameron’s session “Digital Identity - Why claims will Change Everything”, Clemens Vasters session “Internet Service Bus Overview” and Norm Judah’s talk about “The
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Custom Validation Rules Pattern
Posted on 10:39 by Unknown
I have not worked a lot with the Business Rule Engine (BRE) from BizTalk, but today I had to show a customer how it worked. I demoed a BRE solution, where a rule was applied to message taken by an sample orchestration (see picture below, click to enlarge).Then customer asked if BRE could be used to validate messages received from a third party by applying rules. I said that it was possible, but
Monday, 11 February 2008
Upgrading BizTalk Server 2006 to R2
Posted on 04:21 by Unknown
Today I upgraded a BizTalk Server 2006 Development Machine to BizTalk Server R2 for one of my customers. How one can do upgrade this upgrade? Well download installation and upgrade guides from Microsoft for starters. Then gather information about your system. System BizTalk Server 2006 Enterprise Edition is running on is Windows 2003 Server R2 standard edition with SP2, Intel Xeon 1.80 Ghz, 2.00
Friday, 8 February 2008
Mass Copy Functiod Challenge
Posted on 10:31 by Unknown
Today my BizTalk buddy Wouter Crooy had a problem with mass copy functiod he used inside his orchestration with a certain mapping. His mapping worked on development machine and development server, but failed to do so in test environment. Development and test were not exactly to same (it missed some patches for msxml and so on). He made an effort to get them equal, but still it did not work. So it
Monday, 4 February 2008
Experimenting with BizTalk and WCF: Operation Patterns Part I
Posted on 04:49 by Unknown
Last week Richard Seroter wrote an article for TopXML.com to provide depth on BizTalk and WCF integration. This article explains various operation patterns when BizTalk consumes a WCF service. He touches subjects like complex vs. simple types, one way vs. two way operations, (custom) fault contracts, and using the WCF-WSHttp and WCF-WSCustom BizTalk adapters. So I read the article and tried his
Monday, 28 January 2008
LEAP 2008 Redmond Recap
Posted on 03:07 by Unknown
LEAP 2008 has ended and I am back home. Dik Bijl and all people involved in organizing this event have done an excellent job. It was an exciting trip to Redmond and great environment to extend my network and learn new interesting things like Volta, hear from concepts like ‘New World of Work’ and today’s technology like OBA’s. I brought home some interesting literature like:A whole new mind from
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Enterprise Information Integration ?
Posted on 11:23 by Unknown
I recently got in touch with Nilay Parikh through linkedin and he did a excellent post this week about Enterprise Information Integration (EII). Why is it good? Well I was not yet familiar with it, so having someone explaining it in context with other E-technologies (EAI, ETL) and a Microsoft product like BizTalk Server is great. I do not yet have a good insight in this material, but I have found
LEAP 2008 Software Factories Workshop
Posted on 10:56 by Unknown
Last day at LEAP 2008 in Redmond I first enjoyed breakfirst and then went to workshop Software Factories done by Jack Greenfield. He is author of the book Software Factories. The workshop goes into the theory of Software Factories. If you are new to this subject or do not exactly where to start I suggest you go to Edward Bakker blog site. He recently did a post about where to start with Software
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Second Day LEAP 2008 Redmond Part II
Posted on 16:00 by Unknown
Afternoon sessions were Office Business Applications Overview with demo's. Overview can be downloaded from Microsoft. Demo's can be found at codeplex.Last session was one by Pat Helland 'The irresistible Forces Meet the Movable Objects'. This was similar to one given at Teched in Barcelona.Technorati: LEAP 2008
Second Day LEAP 2008 Redmond
Posted on 14:03 by Unknown
Second day LEAP 2008 in Redmond on Microsoft Campus inside their Conference Center. It kicked off with Dan Rasmus, director of Information Work Vision about 'The new World of Work'. He is a futurist and you will information about his on windows live. His session went into four central themes; One world of business, Always on, always connected, transparent organizations, and workforce evolution.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
First Day LEAP 2008 Redmond
Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Yesterday I arrived at Redmond in the afternoon together with lots of other LEAP 2008 participants. A couple of them joined together and went to Seattle Needle and downtown. We had a nice meal at P F Changs and did some shopping.Today here in Redmond LEAP started with a look into the future. A couple of sessions are setup ranging from architecture to technology. Most information is classified so
Saturday, 19 January 2008
LEAP 2008 Redmond
Posted on 03:21 by Unknown
Coming week I am going to Redmond for final of LEAP program. Together with over a hundred fellow Dutch architects or soon to be architects we are going to do a four day program of sessions, workshops, fun tour, evening programs and leisure. The sessions will be held in Microsoft Conference Center on their campus in Kodak and Cascade rooms. Subjects will be (I will mention a few):The Architectural
Monday, 14 January 2008
Web 2.0: Social Networking
Posted on 06:41 by Unknown
Last couple of weeks I beefed up my connections in LinkedIn. I hooked up with a lot of old colleagues, friends and new people sharing same interest as me in SOA, BizTalk, .NET, networking and so on. Some of them also have blogs around these subjects like Nilay Parikh, Dick Dijkstra, Wouter Goedvriend, James McGorvern and Erik Westermann. Having a large social network one can share ideas, insights
Thinking about SOA defintions
Posted on 01:41 by Unknown
Today I was going through some posts in past I have written about SOA and some posts in other blogs like John Evdemon. In one of his posts I came across his definition of SOA. His definition is:SOA is a loosely-coupled architecture designed to meet the business needs of the organization using services. Last bit of using services I added as one of the commenter’s said it make the definition
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Visual Studio 2008 and BizTalk
Posted on 01:05 by Unknown
Well my vacation is almost over and ready to start the New Year with some interesting projects. In my previous post I mentioned Visual Studio 2008, which will have my attention this year. Why, because I moving around a lot in BizTalk, Integration and SOA. Visual Studio plays an important role in developing orchestrations. It delivers templates for orchestrations, mapping, pipelines and schema’s.
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