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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