BizTalk Server 2013, Accelerators and HIS 2013 Beta Install media

Almost two years ago I wrote a post on the location of the BizTalk Adapters for BizTalk 2010. For BizTalk 2010 there are basically two folders both containing a setup application. One folder contains the setup for installation of BizTalk, RFID and Adapter Pack. The other folder contains a setup for BizTalk accelerators. This is a little bit different for BizTalk Server 2013 Beta.

In case you

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Sander Nefs

To start things off: Happy holidays! We are almost at the end of the year 2012. Before that is a fact I would like to one final story for BizTalk Community Series this year.

The story of today will be on my colleague from motion10 Sander Nefs. We have been collaborating on a few projects in the past and are currently working on a project at a big online retailer. Sander is a young and smart

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White Paper: Supportability and operations of Microsoft BizTalk Server

My first white paper on BizTalk Server has been published. The title is Supportability and operations of BizTalk Server and it can be downloaded through this link.

The white paper will discuss supportability of BizTalk Server. Something you should be thinking of when setting up a BizTalk environment or when your current environment lacks or needs improvement in that aspect.

Thinking about

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Mark Burch

In the previous story about BizTalk community members I introduced Genuine Basil, who works for Burch Technologies, Sydney Australia. I was able to get hold of the founder of Burch Technologies, Mark Burch who I interviewed for the BizTalk Community Series. Mark has been been around BizTalk for a long time since 1999 and runs a blog on integration called BizTorque since 2006. Here is his story.

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Genuine Basil

The year 2012 has almost come to an end. Community wise it has been a fantastic year for BizTalk Server. Numerous new articles on the TechNet Wiki, blog posts on BizTalk 2013 (previously 2010 R2), and BizTalk related events taking place around the world. All of this is made possible by BizTalk community members. Genuine Basil is one of them and the following story is on him.

Genuine Basil, 30

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Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter – Part II

In my previous post I discussed sending messages to a Service Bus queue. These messages send to the queue are then picked up by the SB-Messaging Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP, which is running in a VM on Windows Azure. BizTalk will then process these messages by inserting them into a table.  I used one client to send multiple messages to the queue. I measured the time it took to send

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BizTalk Server 2013

Many of you will have noticed or heard the buzz that the new BizTalk release
will be called 2013. It was not a surprise to me or a few
others in the blogosphere. Mark
Burch on his blog post in
July already gave hints to the name or Johan Hedberg beginning of this year
Why
BizTalk Server 2010 R2 should be BizTalk Server 2013. Anyways the
name is now officially 2013.

What will its beta

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Tomasso Groenendijk

BizTalk forums are an important platform for people to ask and/or answer questions, to start discussion and find solutions to their problems. The BizTalk forums are a part of the BizTalk Server Category in the MSDN forums. This category has a BizTalk Server General, BizTalk Server Adapters and Adapter Pack, BizTalk Server EDI and AS2, BizTalk Server RFID, and BizTalk ESB Toolkit.

I myself have

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Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter

Like some of you I have been experimenting with the Service Bus Queues, Topics and subscriptions. The information from Microsoft gives you a straight forward insight how to send messages to queues, topics and subscriptions using .NET.  The first step to interact with the Service Bus Queues, Topics and subscriptions is by creating an account with Windows Azure through a trail or buy option. The

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Ritu Raj‏

The BizTalk community series blog posts have been running for a number of months now. Since January I have introduced 20 BizTalk community members. Yet there are a still more stories to follow the next couple of months. There are a lot of IT professionals around the world dedicated towards BizTalk. Many of them contribute to community through blogs, forums, wiki's, articles, books and giving

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Windows Azure Service Bus Management - Queues, Topics and Relays

The new Windows Azure Management Portal now supports Service Bus management and
monitoring. This is one of the new improvements of the new portal. This will a mean a new experience for the user compared to the older management portal based on Silverlight. The functionality remains similar as per creating a namespace, creating queues and topics.




Above you see a screenshot of Service Bus

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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook - eBook Contest

December 2011 almost a year ago I wrote a blog post for TechNet Wiki on Windows Azure- and Server AppFabric. Now on the Server part a cookbook has been released written by fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Rick G. Garibay and Microsoft
Architect Hammad Rajjoub.  I know both Rick and Hammad (both very active community leaders) have done a great job. Windows Server AppFabric can be viewed as a

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Stuart Brierley‏

Last couple of weeks I have been preparing and giving talks on BizTalk Server in combination with Windows Azure Service Bus. The integration capabilities Microsoft provides on-premise and in the cloud are amazing and unique. There is no other vendor that has an integration infrastructure up in the cloud like the Service Bus. There are on-premise integration/messaging engines like BizTalk, however

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Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Event - A great experience!

Last week I held a presentation at the Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Event (26 - 27 September). This was one of the biggest BizTalk events organized in the Nordic countries this year. Four BizTalk MVP's together with two distinguished community members presented two full days on BizTalk Server, Service Bus, BizTalk Administration and BizTalk360 (Monitoring). I shared the stage during this days with

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rajasekhar.R

A few weeks back I posted a story on the TechNet Wiki blog regarding the increasing number of BizTalk community members contributing to the TechNet Wiki. One of them is Rajasekhar.R, who is a young BizTalk talent from India. So today's story is on him.

 

Rajasekhar.R  is 21 Years Old, and lives in Coimbatore(TamilNadu - South India), which has a beautiful climate all over the year and is

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BizTalk Virtual Machine in Windows Azure using Quick Create–Part II

In my previous post I discussed ways to setup a BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Virtual Machine in Azure. The post demonstrates how a VM with the BizTalk Server 2010 R2 is provisioned using CREATE CREATE. However the BizTalk Server 2010 R2 is installed on the VM, but not yet configured!



Ergo you have to do that yourself!

This is pointed out in Getting started with BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP in

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Sandro Pereira

One of the benefits of my job and role as MVP is that I have the opportunity to meet a lot of BizTalk community members, MVP’s and Microsoft professionals around the world. Some of them became good friends. One of them is Sandro Pereira, who I met for the first time during MVP summit beginning 2011. He is very active in the community through for instance blogs, forums, and the TechNet Wiki. Many

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BizTalk Virtual Machine in Windows Azure using Quick Create

Fellow BizTalk MVP Stephen W. Thomas has created two excellent posts on setting up a BizTalk Server 2010 CTP in Azure:

Setting Up BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine using the Gallery
Running a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Locally with Hyper-V or VMware 8 / VMware 9


In this post I like to share my experience and do a follow up on my post BizTalk IaaS solution: Provisioning

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BizTalk360 continues to evolve: The fifth release in Beta

Monitoring is essential to keep your BizTalk environments healthy and running smoothly. With monitoring you have a couple of options. Either using System Center Operation Manager, a combination of SCOM and third party tooling or solely use third party tooling.

1. Monitoring the BizTalk environment with SCOM can be done with using the management pack for BizTalk Server or AVIcode .NET

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Jeroen Hendriks

For most people the holiday season is over. That does account me as well, however there is one fun trip ahead of me to the US (California). Before I go I have another story for you on a BizTalk community member Jeroen Hendriks, the founder and owner of the BizTalk Admin blog.

Jeroen works as a consultant for Axon Olympus. His work mostly consists of advising customers on how to maintain a

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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Certification Guide: Win a free eCopy!

In past I have created a blog post on how to prepare for BizTalk Server 2010 exam. On TechNet Wiki I have written a TechNet Wiki article as guide for preparation. Now Packt Publishing has released a book that does an excellent job in preparing you for the exam. The book was written by three authors; fellow BizTalk MVP’s Kent Weare and Johan Hedberg, who collaborated with Morten la Cour. I was one

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Howard S. Edidin

The Holiday is over and it is back to work. I opened up my laptop and start working on a story on a remarkable BizTalk pro Howard S. Edidin. He is currently working with me, Tord G. Nordahl and Andres del Rio on BizTalk Administration book due before end of this year. Howard is a very enthusiastic, driven and social person, who I enjoy collaborating with and share ideas on many divers BizTalk

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WikiNinjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki

The official blog of TechNet Wiki contains multiple posts on what drives the community collaborating on the TechNet Wiki. This blog is maintained by Wiki Ninja’s. This is a group of authors who celebrate and evangelize the community and social-authoring excellence that is known as TechNet Wiki.There are several categories the Wiki Ninja’s are writing posts for: Monday - Interview with a Wiki

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Lex Hegt

Before I will head to sunny Spain for a nice vacation I will have one more story for you on a hard working BizTalk community member Lex Hegt. He is a former colleague of mine that works for Ordina. Lex is the founder of the recent launched website BizTalk Events. A good initiative as you have a great access point to resources (slides, links, speakers, etc.) from numerous BizTalk events. The site

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BizTalk Server MVP 2012

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that I’ve been re-awarded the MVP title. For me this is the third time to receive this award. The second year in the program has been an tremendous experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring and very skilled people. I have written and published a book, reviewed to other books, written dozen or

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Mikael Sand

This week I attended TechEd Europe in Amsterdam. Accompanying me was Mikael Sand, a BizTalk professional from Sweden. I have met Mikael a couple times before and we always have some good discussions over BizTalk, beer, politics and sports. This time I have asked him some questions for the BizTalk Community Series and here is his story.

Mikael Sand, a 30-something integration architect

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Visual Studio Service Bus Explorer versus Standalone Service Bus Explorer

In a previous post I explored a new feature of the Windows Azure SDK 1.7. in Visual Studio, the Service Bus Explorer. I demonstrated the capabilities of this feature in Visual Studio, creating new queues, topics, subscriptions and rules. The same capabilities are present in the Service Bus Standalone tool (Windows Forms Application) built by Paolo Salvatori.

INTRODUCTION

The stand alone tool

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Randy Aldrich Paulo

BizTalk community is very much alive. Around the world sessions are given to the community by BizTalk Server MVP’s and members of the BizTalk community. The BizTalk events site will give you a good overview of events taking place around the globe. Besides the events there is a lot more activity going round in the community. Forums, TechNet Wiki, blogs and the publication of books.
One of the

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Exploring the Service Bus Relay, Queues,Topics and Subscriptions with Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows Azure SDK 1.7

 





Introduction
In my post on Future BizTalk Server Release and Microsoft Integration Strategy I discussed the three pronged Microsoft integration strategy:

On-premise BizTalk (a CTP of next version will be released this summer)
BizTalk IaaS (Infrastructure as a Services), Windows Azure offers services like Virtual Machine and Virtual Network to enable to have your BizTalk

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Will BizTalk Server be first class citizen? Yes, Microsoft will strongly invest in BizTalk Server now and in the future!

Almost two years ago I posted a story on the BizTalk roadmap and made a statement that it here to stay. I ended the post with:

“My thinking with current evolution of BizTalk is that it will become a first class citizen with Microsoft offerings.”

I am not Nostradamus or a fortuneteller yet my feeling back then told that BizTalk is not dead yet. With such a strong and vibrant community and over

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Capturing Image of Windows Azure Virtual Machine and creating an new Virtual Machine with the Image

In my previous post I showed how to provision a Virtual Machine in Windows Azure. The Virtual Machine was used to create a BizTalk 2010 Development environment. Now in this post I would like to go into creating an image of this Virtual Machine and then use it to create a new Virtual Machine.
An image is a virtual hard disk (VHD) file that is used as a template for creating a virtual machine.

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BizTalk IaaS solution: Provisioning Developer Environment

One of the new Windows Azure services is Virtual Machines (see announcements). Virtual Machines in Window Azure support the ability to deploy and run durable VMs in the cloud. You can easily create these VMs using a new Image Gallery built-into the new Windows Azure Portal, or alternatively upload and run your own custom-built VHD images.




Virtual Machines
Virtual Machines give you application

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Future BizTalk Server Release and Microsoft Integration Strategy

Last couple of weeks more information has been shared by Microsoft on the future release of BizTalk Server (currently named BizTalk Server 2010 R2). During the BizTalk Event in Milan 24th of May and BizTalk User Group meeting 7th of June sessions revealed more on what is coming. The release of this BizTalk version is six months after release of Windows 8, so it will in first quarter of 2013.

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Oliver Hauth

Recently I had a conversation through email with Oliver Hauth, the person who as a BizTalk community member I like to bring to the foreground in this blog post. He has been awarded Microsoft Valuable Professional little over a year ago. I met Oliver in Berlin during the TechEd Europe 2010 and we'll probably meet again during the upcoming TechEd Europe 2012 in Amsterdam. He is a passionate IT

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Help my BizTalk databases are growing!

The BizTalk Event in Italy was a blast and I had a great time. Today a day after I arrived home I got intrigued by a scenario on the BizTalk forums. The scenario described a situation that BizTalk databases are growing larger even though the BizTalk database jobs are running correctly (see also database script on MSDN Code Gallery). The execution of the BizTalk Server SQL Agent jobs are crucial

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OVERNET BizTalk Innovation Event | May 24, 2012 – Milan, Italy

Next week there will be BizTalk event in Milan. Overnet Education in collaboration with Microsoft Italy and User Group Italiano Connected System will organize, for the first time an interesting event related to BizTalk Server and integration services with the presence of international speakers. Myself, Sandro, Tord and Saravana will speak at this event. Event is organized by Nino Crudele in

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Sriram Chidambaram Narayanan

It has been a few weeks since my last post. Why, well I have been busy promoting my BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, which was published last month. I recommend you to buy a copy (eBook and/or printed version) if you haven’t done so already. A few weeks ago, just before the book was published, I had a conversation through email with Sriram, the person who as a BizTalk community member I like to

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Nino Crudele

Last MVP summit I met the only Italian BizTalk Server MVP Antonino Crudele (Nino). He has been an BizTalk MVP for 5 years in a row now and that is quite an accomplishment. During the summit we had a nice little chat and got to know each other a little better. I asked him a couple of questions for my BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. Here is his story

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Naushad Alam

Stories continue with the BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. The ninth story will be on Nausad Alam, who is currently one of most active community members on BizTalk forums. Not only on the forums has Naushad been very active. He has also written a few extensive wiki articles for Technet wiki like:

BizTalk Server: Performance Tuning & Optimization

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More Cookbooks: Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

I myself have written a cookbook on BizTalk Server called: BizTalk Server Cookbook 2010 for Packt Publishing. Yet there is another cookbook heading our way from this publisher. Fellow MVP from the “Connected Systems” discipline Rick G. Garibay and Microsoft Architect Hammad Rajjoub have written a cookbook on Windows Server AppFabric.


This book will:

Download, install, configure and get up and

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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook Released

Finally my book with recipes for BizTalk Server 2010 is officially released. After a year of hard work it is available now. You can find the complete table of contents on Packt Website for this book.

Before starting this endeavor I asked Richard Seroter for guidance and discussed the opportunity with fellow MVP Randal van Splunteren during MVP Summit 2011. Both motivated me to go for it. So I

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BizTalk Archiving: There is more!

In one of my recent posts I discussed message archiving. With this post I also created a sample that can be found on MSDN Code Gallery. Recently I found out that there are some custom solutions available for message archiving:

BizTalk stream based archiving pipeline component by Dan Rosanova.


Pipeline components are an advanced aspect of BizTalk often overlooked or often implemented in a

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WhitePaper on Microsoft Integration Architecture: Now and the Future

Recently fellow BizTalk MVP Gijs in ‘t Veld asked me to review his whitepaper “Guidance for integration architecture on the Microsoft Business Platform”, which is now available.

I definitely recommend every BizTalk professional to read this and/or let his or her manager read it. The paper gives the reader the most up-to-date facts on the availability and roadmap of Microsoft integration

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Jean-Paul Smit

The stories continue with the BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. The eight story will be on Jean-Paul Smit. He created one of the productivity enhancing tools for BizTalk solutions; the BizTalk Software Factory. He is also like me an active member of the Dutch BizTalk User Group. I had a little chat with him a while ago and this is his story. 

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BizTalk Messaging Archive Custom Solution

Lately one of the questions asked on BizTalk Server Forums intrigued me. The question was how one could archive a message including its message context.

Archiving received message
 
As soon as a message reaches BizTalk it can go through one of the default pipelines (XMLReceive,PassThruReceive) and a message context is added to incoming message.
                                                

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Ruth Resende

During the MVP Summit I had a chat with our sole female on the BizTalk MVP program, Ruth Resende. I have met her before at the MVP Summit 2011 and at this summit I got the chance to catch up with again. I interviewed her for my BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. Last couple of years Ruth has done an amazing job in the Portuguese speaking

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing DPS Bali

I have a new story for BizTalk Community Series before I will be heading of to the MVP Summit. Currently I am staying with Kent Weare in Calgary and yesterday did a presentation at his company on versatile adapter pack capabilities. Kent and Bil Simser did presentations on Service Bus, Queues, Topics and SharePoint 2010. It was pretty amazing. Ok now to the story.

Recently I have had a chat with

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rajesh Kolla

Currently there is a lot of activity in BizTalk community. BizTalkadminsblogging has had a flying start with a lot of contributions. Number of BizTalk related articles on the TechNet wiki is growing. Besides the wiki a lot of BizTalk pro’s are active on blogs and forums. So today I like to continue with the fifth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members

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My next ten TechNet Wiki Articles on BizTalk Continued….

Last couple of weeks I written a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki. The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community and Microsoft employees about Microsoft technologies and products for the community. I very much like the concept and in November 2011 I completed my first ten articles. Next ten were created by 15th of January. Now a few weeks later I have finished

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Interview with a BizTalk MVP Wiki Ninja!!! - Sandro Pereira

I have done an interview with fellow BizTalk MVP Sandro. You can read it here. Sandro is one of the technical reviewers of my forthcoming BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook.
Enjoy the story!

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A flying start for BizTalkAdminsblogging.com

BizTalkadminsblogging has had a tremendous start. Within a week and a half 13 posts already and this will be number 14. An average almost two blog posts a day. This reflects the high demand for BizTalk administration related information, the need for sharing it and desire to create more exposure for this aspect of BizTalk Server. Jeroen and Joris have done an excellent job setting up this blog

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Abhijit Mahato

Writing these stories so far on community members has been a great experience and I received a lot of positive feedback. The stories continue with the fourth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Abhijit Mahato. He is a Microsoft Community Contributor since 2011, a blogger and an active BizTalk forum member.

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A new blog for BizTalk Administrators

There is a new BizTalk blog. Another one, yes targeted for BizTalk administrators. Why? There are many blogs out there. Yet most of them are focused on the developer. There is not much on BizTalk administrative topics nor one blog where BizTalk administrators share their knowledge, and experience between each other and with the community. Jeroen Hendriks from Axon Olympus started an initiative to

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rene Brauwers

The third story of the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground is on Rene Brauwers. He is mainly an active blogger on BizTalk Server. His blog contains highly valuable posts on setting up a BizTalk infrastructure, how to integrate with CRM 2011 and on many other topics. Last year he also acted as technical reviewer for BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns

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TechNet Wiki: The number of BizTalk articles is growing …

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post for the Official blog of TechNet Wiki with the topic “Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: BizTalk Server”. In that blog post I wrote a story on contributions of the community and Microsoft employees for the TechNet Wiki. Mid December there were little of 40 BizTalk Wiki Articles and over a month’s time it has grown to little over 70. That is a tremendous growth of

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rohit Sharma

This is the second story in the BizTalk Community Series bringing active BizTalk community members to the foreground. I have received a lot of positive feedback from the first post on Tord Gald Nordahl. The series will continue with the second person from the BizTalk community I like to introduce: Rohit Sharma. He has recently been awarded MVP for BizTalk Server, and is an valuable contributor to

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My next ten TechNet Wiki Articles on BizTalk

Last couple of weeks I written a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki. The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community and Microsoft employees about Microsoft technologies and products for the community. I very much like the concept and in November 2011 I completed my first ten articles. I continued to work on some articles and now below you will find a list of my

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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Tord Glad Nordahl

Most of you are familiar with the interview series by Richard Seroter. Based on this concept I want to start with a series of blog posts, in which I would like to introduce active BizTalk community members. Contrary to the interview series the focus here will be solely on BizTalk Server. It will bring several active BizTalk community members to the foreground.

The first person from the BizTalk

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My year 2011 In retrospective

In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2011 went. For one it has been a very busy year. I have been writing a BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook that due March this year. It took me more than nine months to write. I have had great support from Randal van Splunteren, Richard Seroter, Saravana Kumar, Tord Gard Nordahl, Mikael Hakansson, Sandro Perreira, Rene Brauwers and Abdul Rafay. They

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Ordina BizTalk Innovation Event: Monitoring and Administration

I am organizing an event at Ordina on BizTalk Innovation with the topic “Monitoring and Administration”. This is the first event of a series of events under name “Ordina BizTalk Innovation” that will take place at my company Ordina. This and future events are open for customers, the community and Ordina professionals. The event on the 1st of February three speakers will do their presentations on

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