Before end of the year a new issue of BizTalk Hotrod is made available. I happy to announce that my article around BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 is in this issue. Some of you know that I posted a few things around BizTalk Adapter Pack in August. This inspired me to write an article and share my experience/knowledge with fellow BizTalk professionals in the world. Information shared was a bit more
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 4
Posted on 07:45 by Unknown
Monitoring Scenario In this post and the next I would like to go through a scenario to have the ability to further evaluate the three monitoring tools for BizTalk. I will use an Oracle backend (i.e. Oracle 10g Express), .NET, BizTalk and a Windows Front End application. I have an environment (VPC) that contains BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0, Oracle Express 10g, BizTalk Server 2009 and the three
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 3
Posted on 04:58 by Unknown
In previous posts (part 1, part 2) I mentioned three tools for monitoring BizTalk solution, BizMon, Minotaur and FRENDS Helium. In this post I want to dive into installation, configuration of FRENDS Helium. This is a web-based tool for monitoring BizTalk Server installations and provides operators a simple view to error situations occurred in BizTalk Server installation. You obtain a trail
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 2
Posted on 00:41 by Unknown
In previous post (part 1) I mentioned three tools for monitoring BizTalk solution, BizMon, Minotaur and FRENDS Helium. In this post I want to dive into installation, configuration of Minotaur V1.04 monitoring tool. I use same environment as for BizMon tool. Minotaur is licensed per BizTalk group, so after installation you will to ask for a license key by sending an email to Registration@
Monday, 23 November 2009
Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 1
Posted on 11:35 by Unknown
In one of my previous post I talked a little bit about monitoring BizTalk solutions in the enterprise. I now want to delve into some of the offerings around monitoring BizTalk Solutions. I like to discuss three available tools available today, at least I will delve into each one in separate: · BizMon Tool; · FRENDS Helium; · Minotaur. I will start with BizMon Tool made by Richard Hallgren. To
Friday, 20 November 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 R2
Posted on 13:08 by Unknown
New version of BizTalk Server 2009 R2 has been announced. It will no doubt about align with latest versions of Microsoft Platform like Visual Studio 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. So like BizTalk Server 2006, there will be R2 following up shortly. What I find interesting to see at blogpost from Thiago was that BizTalk Server 2009 R2 will be released in 2010 with AppFabric
Working with Windows Server AppFabric
Posted on 06:36 by Unknown
In previous post I mentioned Windows Server AppFabric.Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for
Microsoft BizTalk Server Futures and Roadmap
Posted on 02:51 by Unknown
Want to hear how your development skills with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) work seamlessly with the powerful integration platform of BizTalk. Do want to find out how BizTalk aligns with the Microsoft application server in the longer term. Look at this presentation from PDC09. Technorati:BizTalkBizTalk 2006 R2BizTalk Server 2009PDC09
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Windows Server AppFabric
Posted on 08:24 by Unknown
At PDC Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools Business, introduced the world to Windows AppFabric. Windows Server AppFabric is a new set of capabilities, bringing together the functionality of Dublin, as well as Velocity (a high-performance, distributed, highly-scalable in-memory cache). In a related move, the Service Bus and Access Control Services that were formerly part of the .NET Services
Friday, 13 November 2009
BizTalk at PDC 2009
Posted on 03:55 by Unknown
Latest update on PDC09 regarding BizTalk are being posted last wednesday by BizTalk Server Team. I mentioned some sessions a while ago. Team blog post will tell you what session, where and by who will be given coming week at PDC09. I am will virtually attending through channel 9 at home.Technorati:BizTalkBizTalk 2006 R2BizTalk Server 2009PDC09
Monday, 9 November 2009
PaaS for SaaS
Posted on 11:07 by Unknown
If you have been following what is going in cloud space, Microsoft is bringing its platform to the cloud. I witnessed its revelation called Windows Azure during PDC 2008 and it has improved a lot during last 12 months. Picture above resembles its technology stack as it now today. I found this picture from Roger Jennings blog site. A good resource to find a lot of information and so on if you
Windows Groups and User Accounts in BizTalk Server on single Computer (Sandbox)
Posted on 02:05 by Unknown
The Configuration Manager creates the necessary Windows group and user accounts for you by default if you install BizTalk Server and all prerequisite software on a single computer. BizTalk Server supports local group and user accounts only in single computer configurations. BizTalk Server gives you the ability to configure your server in one of two modes, Basic or Custom. Basic configuration is
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
PDC2009 BizTalk Sever Sessions
Posted on 07:10 by Unknown
Last BTUG question was asked who will be going to PDC 09 this year. No one raised his hand compared to a lot of hands last year even though no BizTalk session was given. It will be the other way around this year; hence almost no one unfortunately is going there are BizTalk sessions planned this year. I am still secretly hoping I can go, but chances are slim. What session about BizTalk are planned
BTUG Fall Session
Posted on 04:42 by Unknown
Yesterday the last BTUG gathering took place at Unisys in Amsterdam. We had two sessions from Brain Loesgen who was over in Holland for SOA symposium and one from Gerben. Brain sessions: · ESB Toolkit · BizTalk Development Best Practices Gerben session: · HL7 Accelerator A lot of people form BTUG community attended session and show that from its inception until today is in fact a strong one.
Monday, 12 October 2009
My colleagues in motion
Posted on 02:42 by Unknown
Previous post I mentioned the release of SP1 Beta for BizTalk Server 2006 R2. One of my colleagues at motion10 Rene has tried it out on one of his VPC’s, so if you are interested definitely check out his post, it’s very detailed. Another great blog post has been put out by another colleague Sander who explains in detail BizTalk AIF Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics 2009 AX. This post with the latest
Friday, 9 October 2009
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 Beta
Posted on 02:45 by Unknown
If you working with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and there are a lot of installation (instances) globally a new SP1 is coming out soon. Beta SP1 for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has been released today. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2. It includes fixes to issues that have been reported through customer feedback platforms towards Microsoft, as well as within Microsoft discovered
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Monitoring BizTalk Solutions in an Enterprise
Posted on 05:20 by Unknown
There are certain aspects (governance, support groups) that need to be understood when monitoring BizTalk solutions starts become necessary. One aspect is support groups with roles and responsibilities. I summarize here what in my opinion and experience these groups should be and which roles are mandatory: Technical supports needs to monitor Operating System and SQL Server: System
Monday, 5 October 2009
BizTalk and SharePoint Services a good couple
Posted on 05:03 by Unknown
About two years ago a walkthrough article was written by Arnulfo Wing about using BizTalk Server 2006 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. And more were written from that time on and maybe even before. It shows that integration with SharePoint is very feasible and natural, being both Microsoft products with .NET technology. Some examples you can use as background or material to experiment with
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Some More BizTalk Resources
Posted on 23:50 by Unknown
From time to time I keep looking around the internet, blogs, articles and so to find new or more BizTalk Resources. There are some interesting videos for BizTalk Server available through BizTalk Server Development Center. Definitely something you can check out if you have not stumbled on it already. Other thing I found very use full is the BizTalk Posters. At my office at Motion10 there are loads
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
HL7 Accelerator on my BizTalk Server 2009 Sandbox Machine
Posted on 02:32 by Unknown
There is a project opportunity for me for BizTalk Server and HL7 implementation. I therefore am trying to get familiar with HL7 accelerator. There is a webcast BizTalk Light and Easy about HL7 by Mark Brimble, which was a excellent starting point for me. I have a sandbox with BizTalk Server 2009, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 installed on it (all x86). Accelerator can be found through
Friday, 11 September 2009
Pro BizTalk Server 2009 Book
Posted on 08:35 by Unknown
New BizTalk Server 2009 Pro is out. I am currently reading it and it’s a good read and does have some overlap with its predecessor, which was a big success. Updated book for BizTalk Server 2009 is based upon real feedback from BizTalk developers. It is written by recognized experts George Dunphy and Sergei Moukhnitski, backed by a team of top-notch coauthors. In the book the authors share their
Thursday, 10 September 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 Pattern Wizard
Posted on 04:21 by Unknown
Jon Flanders released a new update for Pattern Wizard for BizTalk Server 2009. I downloaded the wizard from Codeplex and tried it out VPC running BizTalk Server 2009 on Standard Windows 2008 OS (x86), SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition and VSTS 2008. I created a project called BizTalkAsyncAggPatternWizardTest and tried Wizard out. It works like a charm and it is helpful in learning/mastering
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
A busy man with BizTalk challenges
Posted on 02:26 by Unknown
From time to time I read interesting blog posts about BizTalk. I found a few that are interesting: - Notification when Receive Locations/Send Ports change - Configuring BizTalk Backup for Disaster Recovery – Part 2 - BizTalk Orchestration – Orchestration debugging inside Visual Studio - SCOM pack for BizTalk Server 2009 A lot is happening out there in BizTalk community and hopefully I have
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Installation of SSO on SQL Cluster continued
Posted on 04:35 by Unknown
Couple month ago in June I described in a post how to cluster SSO. This was SQL Server 2005 cluster on Windows 2003 R2 scenario. How to cluster SSO for BizTalk Server 2009 is described here in online documentation. I have not yet have experience with clustering SSO on Windows 2008, but Kent wrote an interesting post about it. If you want to cluster SSO Single Sign On with BizTalk Server 2009 on
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Complex Event Processing Technology
Posted on 02:25 by Unknown
I read some posts today around Complex Event Processing (CEP) where Microsoft has provided a solution for. This solution is Microsoft’s new Complex Event Processing technology to help businesses derive better insights by correlating event streams from multiple sources with near-zero latency and called: ‘Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight’. A CTP can be downloaded from Microsoft.I have not yet
Sunday, 16 August 2009
BizTalk Configuration Manager
Posted on 07:03 by Unknown
Michael Stephenson has released a new version of configuration manager for BizTalk. I myself was not familiar yet with this tool. I downloaded it from CodePlex and tried it out on one of virtual machines. To use the tool there is a video out that explains the tool. Tool itself is used to help you manage the different settings needed for binding and configuration files across different
BizTalk Development Center
Posted on 06:51 by Unknown
BizTalk support team has started adding content to BizTalk Development Center on MSDN. Their goal is continually update with information: Common call generators, including Symptoms and potential Resolutions Potential scenarios and their fixes Contributing to the monthly theme Providing learning materials, including some of the same BizTalk 2009 training materials that the BizTalk
Thursday, 13 August 2009
BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 on x64 Considerations
Posted on 01:50 by Unknown
Last week I posted an issue around BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 in x64 environment. Now I like to clarify a couple of things concerning installation BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 in x64 environment and running the adapter in x64 host instance. One thing to consider is having an Oracle specialist around and someone with access to meta-link, because for x64 environment you will need patch 5337014 and
Monday, 10 August 2009
Multiple Sandboxes for Development
Posted on 07:09 by Unknown
Some of latest posts I read where quite interesting. One is about unattended/silent install of BizTalk 2009 by Kent Weare. Some background on him can be found at Richard Seroter’s interview series on his blog. Brought back a thought of other post months ago from Thiago Almeida about syspreping VHD with BizTalk. Creating BizTalk installation on virtual machine is fun, but also complex depending on
Creating Hosts in BizTalk Script
Posted on 01:37 by Unknown
Creating Hosts and host instances can be done with scripts. Below is script for creating hosts: This script will result in following outcome: Looking at properties it, 32-bit only is checked and others are unchecked. The same behaviour occurs if this script is performed in 64-bit environment and something you might not want. Script I showed at begin is one I have been provided with by a
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Process Monitor 2.5
Posted on 07:22 by Unknown
On my sandbox with BizTalk 2009 on it I wanted to download and install FileMon and RegMon. I got this message when I wanted to run FileMon. There is tool now called Tool ‘Process Monitor’2.5. I got the wrong version of FileMon, but it showed me this tool is available now. This UI contains views for Registry, FileSystem, Network, Process and Profiling Events. This 2.5 version has been
Friday, 7 August 2009
BizTalk Hotrod Magazine Issue 7
Posted on 01:04 by Unknown
New BizTalk Hotrod Magazine is out. I have been reading this magazine in the beginning and it is a good resource to read and absorb knowledge provided in there. This issue contains article about: B2B 2.0 Azure Unit Testing Schemas and Maps in BizTalk Server 2009 Book Review for "SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009" How to Throw Typed Fault Exceptions from Orchestrations Published
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 Issues
Posted on 07:43 by Unknown
You can run into some trouble installing BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0. I stumble upon the following: 1: Messaging Engine The Messaging Engine failed to add a receive location "MyReceiveLocation" with URL "oracledb://xxxx" to the adapter "WCF-Custom". Reason: "Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapter.Wcf.Converters.CreateBindingException: Unable to get binding type for binding extension "oracleDBBinding".
Monday, 3 August 2009
BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0: OracleBinding
Posted on 05:49 by Unknown
In previous post before my holiday to France I tried out BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 with SQL Binding. As said back then I also wanted to try out the Oracle Binding. On my Sandbox I installed Oracle 10G Express Database (similar to SQL Express). To download this database you will need to register to Oracle Technology Network (OTN). For Oracle Database 10g Express Edition installation I did the
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Operations Guide
Posted on 00:58 by Unknown
During my holiday I missed out the release of new BizTalk Server 2009 Operations Guide. BizTalk Server Operations Guide is a valuable resource for anyone involved in the implementation and administration of a BizTalk solution, particularly IT professionals. The guide provides detailed information for planning a BizTalk Server environment, as well as recommendations and best practices for
Sunday, 2 August 2009
BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer V1.2 on my Sandbox
Posted on 11:34 by Unknown
BPA (BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer) 1.2 is out a couple of months already. I did not think of using it on one of my sandboxes, so I tried on my Sandbox with BizTalk Server 2009 on Windows 2008 Standard Edition OS and SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition. In past I did a blog post of using BPA. First thing one must do is check for updates. After no updates where found I did a scan. Resulted
Latest Books I’ve read or am going to read
Posted on 10:47 by Unknown
Now that I have returned from my holiday in France it is back to start working again. I will start continuing on a BizTalk project this week and I have already started reading books from my pile (or queue). Books that I have read, almost read of started reading last couple of months are: SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 by Richard Seroter. I finished it just before going to France.
July CTP of the Windows Azure SDK and Tools
Posted on 06:57 by Unknown
Microsoft has released another CTP for Windows Azure SDK and Tools as I read from email I just received returning from my holiday in France. Visual Studio July CTP can be downloaded here. In this post I will show how it behaves in Vista environment with Visual Web developer Express Edition 2008 and in an environment of Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 RC. Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual
Monday, 13 July 2009
BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0: SQL Adapter
Posted on 13:31 by Unknown
BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 Eval has been released a while ago. This adapter enables you to send and receive messages to and from a line-of-business (LOB) system. The primary design goal of adapters is to facilitate the exchange of business documents between trading partners or systems inside your enterprise. The adapters provide the following advantages to clients: Consistent design-time
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Rock on
Posted on 13:32 by Unknown
Flow of blogging posts is a bit lately. I do burst with ideas, but have not found time yet to write them out and post them. Holiday season in Holland has started I am looking for some time off. Even though there is a recession roaring around the globe I am doing two projects at the time. This weekend I had time to blow of some steam at Fortarock in Nijmegen. A metal festival with a lot of cool
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Installation of SSO on SQL Cluster
Posted on 01:46 by Unknown
In this post I will tell a story of my experience with installation of SSO on SQL Cluster. Each BizTalk Server has an Enterprise Single Sign-On service (EntSSO.exe). Enterprise Single Sign-On is also referred as SSO or EntSSO. SSO serves two purposes. One is for data encryption, that is, port URI data. And the other is, as what the name indicates, Single Sign-On. Single Sign-On is about
Thursday, 11 June 2009
ESB Toolkit 2.0
Posted on 08:20 by Unknown
As you may have noticed as dedicated BizTalk professional ESB toolkit 2.0 is available. Is targeted towards BizTalk 2009 Server product and supports Windows 2003/2008 OS. There is a x86 and x64 msi, documents and compiled help file that can be download. I tried installing Toolkit on my BizTalk Server 2009 Personal Sandbox (2008 Windows Server OS, x86). Above
Saturday, 30 May 2009
Harakiri on Twitter
Posted on 02:02 by Unknown
A few months ago I killed myself (virtually) on Twitter. At least I thought I did (forgot to terminate it for real), but my account was still there and I saw that people are still following me. I now realize that it is something that cannot be ignored and a medium used by so many people outside and inside my network. I therefore start using it again and have risen from the dead (virtually).
Friday, 29 May 2009
WF 4
Posted on 12:26 by Unknown
This week I attended DevDays in The Hague. The most interesting or intriguing for me was Workflow 4. Matt Milner did a preconference Wednesday and some session during the conference. He did his demos in VS2010 Beta 1, which is available right now. I downloaded beta 1 and installed in on (YES!!) Windows 7 RC on VPC (that is possible). Windows 7 is just marvelous and runs smoothly inside my VPC (It
Monday, 18 May 2009
Multiple Sandboxes for Development
Posted on 06:24 by Unknown
Last week I spotted a post stating that BizTalk 2009 SDK contains scripts so administrator’s will be able to sysprep a BizTalk Sandbox machine. In folder \SDK\Samples\Admin\Sysprep if you have chosen the SDK component during installation you can find the scripts. An image created using sysprep will choose a new computer name in order to join the domain the first
Monday, 11 May 2009
BizTalk Server and UDDI 3.0
Posted on 11:28 by Unknown
One of new SOA capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009 are UDDI services. I found an article at Packt Publishing written by Richard Seroter. UDDI stands for Universal Description and Discovery Information and is a type of registry whose primary purpose is to represent information about web services. As I was reading the article it gave me an itch to try this UDDI stuff out myself. So I opened my
WCF 4.0
Posted on 01:35 by Unknown
Spring holiday is over and it is back to work. There is a new challenge awaiting for me involving IBM Maximo, WCF, MSMQ and BizTalk. Speaking of WCF there are changes and I see some postings about WCF 4.0. At PDC last year there were some talks around WCF 4.0. The discussions completely by-passed me, but I have a new chance to get up to speed. End of May DevDays 2009 will take place and I am
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 Official Release
Posted on 06:29 by Unknown
BizTalk has been officially released yesterday 27th of April. All its features and for instance which features are gone can be found at new features BizTalk Server 2009 page. Check out Brian Loesgen latest post.Technorati:BizTalk Server 2009
Saturday, 25 April 2009
New BizTalk Server 2009 Book
Posted on 02:20 by Unknown
I have bought the eBook and hardcopy at Packt Publishing site of Richard Seroters new book called SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009. This book specifically shows how to map service-oriented principles and patterns to the BizTalk product. It is a technical resource for professionals looking to implement service-oriented patterns while exposing new services or consuming existing ones. How
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Some New BizTalk Documentation
Posted on 02:03 by Unknown
New BizTalk Hotrod Magazine is out. It seams there back in a flow releasing a magazine every quarter of a year. Other thing I noticed that there is a BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper V Guide out. That some documentation on BizTalk Server, which keep growing and growing. Also check out BizTalk 24 * 7 – BlogDoc if you haven’t already. There is a lot information there too and it’s updated with new content
Monday, 20 April 2009
BizTalk Operations
Posted on 01:19 by Unknown
In one of my current projects I am working on documentation regarding BizTalk Operations for a DTAP environment (see one of my previous post about DTAP). To maintain a healthy, responsive and available environments certain procedures and IT staff are necessary to meet these responsibilities. A dedicated team of BizTalk operational specialists and SQL Server DBA’s should be created for the task of
Friday, 17 April 2009
My first Service Specification Experience
Posted on 02:43 by Unknown
I am currently involved in a SOA project and working on Service Specifications. Organization I am working for started their first steps towards a full blown SOA. Choice of an ESB has been made and Microsoft BizTalk Server it is. Next step is identifying and specifying services. That is the stage where I am involved now. It is quite an encouraging experience and I have support (guidance) from an
Sunday, 5 April 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 is here
Posted on 13:30 by Unknown
On blog posts I read that BizTalk Server 2009 is available on MSDN and through Volume License Key. This means as BizTalkers we can start working with official released product. I have started with yet again a sandbox installation with MSDN BizTalk Server 2009 Developer Edition. And try a couple thing out like Brian Loesgen post Walkthrough: Composite Operations with the new WCF-based SQL
Thursday, 2 April 2009
SlideShare Rockstar
Posted on 06:19 by Unknown
Two years I published a couple of slides about a presentation I did about BizTalk 2006 Orchestration Vs Messaging. It was a introduction of BizTalk towards my colleagues at Inter Access. In this presentation I made distinction between messaging and orchestrations. Two main features of BizTalk 2006 besides BAM, BRE and RFID. Recently I got a message from SlideShare telling me I was/am a SlideShare
Monday, 30 March 2009
Patterns, patterns, patterns
Posted on 11:57 by Unknown
Today I attended two architecture session at Software Development Event (SDE) from Software Development Network (SDN) in Driebergen (Netherlands). First session by Dennis Doomen was Design Patterns applied in the field (through experience). Perhaps you noticed that our work as a developer today is filled by so-called Design Patterns. Think of patterns such as Model-View-Presenter, Dependency
Saturday, 28 March 2009
DTAP Strategy: Pricing and Licensing
Posted on 07:41 by Unknown
To implement BizTalk solutions it is a good practice to have an DTAP environment in place. DTAP stands for Development, Test, Acceptance and Production. Development and test environments are equal (mirrored) and same account for acceptance and production. Deploying DTAP environments is easy, because there are many factors influencing outcome of DTAP. One factor is pricing and licensing costs.
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Social Networking with Twitter/Yammer?
Posted on 06:05 by Unknown
I did some things on Twitter and Yammer (inside my company), but to be honest it does not work for me. Best social networking tool for is and will be LinkedIn. It is professional and adds value with its features. For instance asking questions or start discussion inside groups. I truly like that and it works for me. Yammer account is gone and twitter to (at least I am trying to). I will try
Sunday, 15 March 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 Sandbox Installation Part II
Posted on 03:08 by Unknown
In past I build an VPC with trail software from Microsoft to install a BizTalk Server 2009 Beta. This time I will do it again using an Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 VPC Image (Trial) from Microsoft that will expire 31 December 2009. This image contains TFS 2008 installed on Windows 2003 Server with SQL Server 2005. First on needs to do is download the image this will
Monday, 9 March 2009
Wait for BizTalk 2009? Part II
Posted on 01:02 by Unknown
In my previous post I asked if I should wait for 2009 or deploy an OTAP environment now. I asked this question also in Linked Groups BizTalk, BizTalk Certified Professional Group, BizTalk Professionals, and BizTalk Server Professionals. Comments where divers, but clear on whether or not to wait for BizTalk 2009. Moustafa Refaat: My opinion is not to wait. BizTalk 2006 R2 is a mature platform
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
BizTalk OTAP: Wait for BizTalk 2009?
Posted on 08:39 by Unknown
I am facing a new challenge in deploying an OTAP within two organizations or at least a case, where customer is asking itself about which version for an complete OTAP environment. Question here is should a customer wait until BizTalk 2009 is released or deploy an OTAP now based on BizTalk Server 2006 R2. In my opinion it depends on the situation the customer is in. If OTAP is necessary in a
Friday, 27 February 2009
BizTalk and ALM
Posted on 03:32 by Unknown
One of new enhancements (or improvements) of BizTalk Server 2009 is the developer/team productivity through ALM. I myself am not an expert yet on ALM so I decided to start digging into the subject. The following resources will help me get through this process (I hope): Pro Visual Studio Team System Application LifeCycle Management book by Joachim Rossberg; Have discussions or ask
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Quiet on BizTalk Front
Posted on 07:47 by Unknown
There is a crisis going on and I am starting to feel it. Last couple of weeks have been slow in business (projects) for me. Financial crisis has hit the Netherlands hard. There is hope though some project opportunities are heading my way, so I have to be patient. In the mean time I haven’t been sitting still. I started a with a new study to become a Bachelor of ICT in couple of years. This
Saturday, 14 February 2009
I Yammer
Posted on 05:51 by Unknown
I haven’t talk much lately on my blog about Web 2.0. Recently my company has introduced Yammer into its organization. I never heard about the tool, but it seems to be a twitter clone intended for usage inside an organization. I looked it up with google and found this on wikipedia: Yammer is a microblogging service launched in September 2008. Like Twitter, it allows users to post updates of
Friday, 13 February 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 TFS
Posted on 06:45 by Unknown
Thanks to Thiago Almeida blog post I found out there is a video on channel 9 on a demonstration in english, by Johan Hedberg, co-owner of BizTalk User Group in Sweden who demonstrates several aspects of leveraging Team Foundation Server when developing solutions with BizTalk Server 2009. Cool.Technorati:BizTalk Server 2009
Cloud Computing with Windows Azure
Posted on 05:46 by Unknown
Article in Software Release Magazine (SRM) ‘Cloud Computing with Windows Azure’ is out. Anko Duizer and I have written an the article about Windows Azure, SQL Services, .NET and Live Services that has some overlap to David Chappell whitepaper ‘Introducing the Azure Services Platform’. It was fun writing the article and I am happy it is out now and the 7th article published so far in different
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Issue 5 BizTalk Hotrod
Posted on 00:27 by Unknown
It has been a while since last time BizTalk Hotrod released an issue, but issue 5 is out now. In this issue you’ll see that BizTalk 2009, Dublin are covered and some articles on BizTalk and SOA management. Go read!!!Technorati:BizTalk Server 2009
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Updated Azure Services Training Kit
Posted on 20:27 by Unknown
Microsoft has released an updated training kit for Windows Azure Services. The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The February release includes the following updates: 19 demo scripts that walkthrough several of the services
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Amazon Cloud Services
Posted on 09:04 by Unknown
One of Microsoft’s competitors in the Cloud Computing space is Amazon. Through Scott Banwart’s blog I found that there is a series of articles out about Amazon’s offerings. Something for me to check out as soon as I am home. Technorati: Cloud Computing
Monday, 2 February 2009
Microsoft OSLO updates
Posted on 14:40 by Unknown
I am a bit of the Microsoft OSLO track, but there seems to be an update of OSLO CTP. You should check out Jon Flanders post and one from Alex Thissen. I will try some stuff out soon as I back from my Toronto trip. Technorati:Microsoft OSLO
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Second Day Microsoft SOA & BPM Conference
Posted on 18:44 by Unknown
Last day of condensed Microsoft SOA & BPM Conference 2009. This morning I followed a session around BAM and from then on I went to: Architectural session : SOA Governance with MS technologies: System Center, WCF and BTS; Overview of BPM: Realizing the BPM Vision with SOA, Sharepoint and BizTalk; EDI Session: Using SOA Principles to drive Modern EDI Solutions; Closing Keynote by
BAM to Implement Service and SLA Monitoring
Posted on 09:13 by Unknown
Raul Camacho, SOA Solution Architect from Microsoft, did a talk about BAM to implement a service and SLA monitoring solution. Session is focused to IT pro to monitor BizTalk. Service Analytics use BAM, WCF and so on. What is Service Analytics. Why Services Analytics? For this is new (terminology) and concept. Slogan: one manages what one measures. This is to provide answers to the business
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
ALM Experience for BizTalk Server 2009 Developers
Posted on 14:51 by Unknown
Next talk after this morning talk is the new Application LifeCycle Management experience for BizTalk Developer session by Stephen Kaufman. This session will dive into deep integration with Team Foundation Server and ALM. It started with a retrospective to what happing now with build, deploy, testing and debugging of orchestrations or mappings. This things are tedious and slowing down developers
Integration Solution : BizTalk Server 2009
Posted on 12:20 by Unknown
There is an need for an Application Server and Integration Server in SOA space. First basic what is word integrate mean: Content for talk today is why? (challenges: what will BizTalk solve), What? (Scenario’s capabilities), Who? and What’s new” (Now BizTalk 2009 and future); and Why is it important? Talk is focused to more with BizTalk! Landscape is changing, domain EAI is not new, where to
SOA & BPM Conference Keynote
Posted on 10:09 by Unknown
Conference has started. It was kicked off by Eddie Amos. Even though there is a financial crisis going on and conference has been made condensed to 2 days :( there are: 400 attendees 25 countries 25 breakout sessions The it started of with Steve Martin debunking the myths around SOA. Is dead or alive? A lot of hype around it being alive or dead (see Anne Thomas Manes). Here are
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
SOA Assessment and Roadmap Datasheet
Posted on 07:23 by Unknown
Microsoft's SOA Assessment-and-Roadmap datasheet out as I just found out. Read this article to have an better understanding. I am currently in Seattle for upcoming SOA & BPM Conference. I hope it will be an interesting Conference (expect it will, last two I attended 2006 and 2007 were good). Tonight will be early registration in House Of Billiard in Bellevue with some drinks, food and playing
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers
Posted on 00:28 by Unknown
BizTalk Server Team has released a new whitepaper authored by Jesus Rodriguez and Joe Klug from Microsoft’s partner Tellago. It provides also code samples targeted at developers who are developing BAM solutions. The whitepaper titled “Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers” covers the following topics: Business Activity Monitoring Overview – including the BAM observation model
Monday, 19 January 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 Value Proposition
Posted on 05:20 by Unknown
BizTalk Server 2009 CTP is out together with its documentation. Looking at the information provided by compiled help file BizTalk Server 2009 product I did not feel that much had changed. So I looked at BizTalk value proposition section and gave some insight to what actually is new or more important why investments could be made in this upcoming edition of the product. First thing that strikes
Friday, 16 January 2009
Update Azure SDK and Visual Studio Tool
Posted on 00:07 by Unknown
Today I got an email in my inbox from Azure Services Platform Team with an announcement that Windows® Azure™ SDK and Visual Studio Tools update have been released. These newly released SDK and Tools include: Bug and performance fixes Improved integration with Visual Studio Performance improvements with execution and debugging scenarios Improvements to Storage Client and ASP.Net
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 Database Infrastructure Poster Available
Posted on 04:42 by Unknown
People at Microsoft Connected Systems Division (CSD) have released a new BizTalk Server 2009 Poster around Database Infrastructure. Go fetch! Technorati:BizTalk Server 2009
Microsoft .NET Services White Papers
Posted on 03:43 by Unknown
Microsoft has released a couple of white-papers around .NET Services a component of the Azure Services Platform. The whitepapers are: * An Introduction to Microsoft .NET Services for Developers. This overview paper introduces Microsoft® .NET Services, each of its building block services, and how they fit together. * A Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft® .NET Access Control Service. This
Saturday, 10 January 2009
BizTalk Application LifeCycle
Posted on 02:30 by Unknown
New Year 2009 has started a already read some interesting blog posts. One by Lucas Vogel about how Zapthink thinks wrong about BizTalk Server. Or viewing and tracking in BizTalk Server 2009 CTP and aggregated monitoring using BizMon. Very interesting reading material. I myself am working on a process around BizTalk Application LifeCycle: Analyse, Design, Build, Test, Deploy and Administration (
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