Windows Azure BizTalk Services is general available

During the BizTalk Integration Summit a week a go the Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) have been made available. This service is now a full grown part of the Windows Azure offering. For the BizTalk product group this is an important landmark. They have been working hard the last couple of years to accomplish this. They first had to lay down the foundation before they could deliver this

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BizTalk Summit 2013

This year another BizTalk Summit will take place. A recollection of last year’s event is described in a blog post by Michael Stephenson.

The 2-day conference last year the was held in December on the Microsoft Campus. It was followed up by BizTalk conference in January in Amsterdam, London and Stockholm.  Both the US and European BizTalk events were successful. Each with over a 100 or 200

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TechNet Wiki Blog

I regularly write blog posts for the TechNet Wiki Blog or WikiNinjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki. This blog acts a catalyst for the TechNet Wiki. Every day of the week a blog post is created on different topics (categories):

Monday - Interview with a Wiki Ninja
Tuesday - TNWiki Article Spotlight
Wednesday - Wiki Life
Thursday - Council Spotlight
Friday - International Update
Saturday - Top

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing M.R.ASHWINPRABHU‏

Tomorrow there will be another BizTalk event. Venue will be Microsoft Italy in Milan. I will be speaking there with other Microsoft Integration MVP’s, Microsoft and people from Microsys (main sponsor). This will be another opportunity to engage the BizTalk community.

Interactions with the BizTalk community are vital to keep us MVP’s focused. We can be viewed as an intermediary between them and

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BizTalk Server 2013: Connect to Window Azure Blob Storage Article

On of the demo’s during Developing Hybrid Solutions with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 and Windows Azure presentation talk was about connecting to Windows Azure Storage and pushing a document to a blob container. Based on that demo I created a TechNet Wiki article. What was missing in the demo was functionality to strip path from ReceivedFilename context property. I created a pipeline for it to

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White paper on WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter

In the new adapters series I discussed the adapters released with BizTalk Server 2013. I demonstrated the relay adapters (HTTP, NetTcp), Service Bus Messaging, WebHttp (REST) and linked to the TechNet Wiki article on SFTP. I have written a White paper that discusses the BasicHttpRelay more in-depth.

BizTalk Server 2013 offers a few new adapters. Three of them enable connectivity with the Windows

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Suleiman Shakhtour‏

It is time to continue the BizTalk Community Series after a recent successful event in Norway, the Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Day. This event was a great opportunity for me to meet up with many Scandinavian BizTalk professionals.

During the two day event we as BizTalkCrew, Kent Weare and Paolo Salvatori (Microsoft) presented about the latest (Windows Azure BizTalk Services, BizTalk 2013), proven

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BizTalk and Windows Azure SQL Database

In past I written posts on interaction between BizTalk and Windows Azure SQL Database (former known under SQL Azure) using the WCF-SQL Adapter. I have revisited one of my posts that dealt with calling a stored procedure. To bring back old memories I tried to do same against using BizTalk Server 2013 (this time through using an orchestration and messaging)

The WCF-SQL Adapter (binding) from the

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BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: SFTP

In march I promised to do a post on the last new adapter released with BizTalk Server 2013: SFTP. I wanted to discuss all the new adapters and did so for the relays, SB-Messaging and WebHttp. I forgot about SFTP. I got reminded of that fact when I read latest TechNet Wiki article  by Suleiman Shakhtour.

Excerpt of the article:

In the BizTalk 2010 release, Microsoft enhanced the existing FTP

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A few notes from the Hybrid Organisation Event - London

Last week I attended the Hybrid Organisation Event in London. A story on the event can be found on BizTalk360 blog. I enjoyed it and was good to see some friends and my old colleagues Sander Nefs and Rene Brauwers,

After event Sander wrote to two interesting posts on Windows Azure Services Bus after seeing Sam VanHoutte session:

UK Connected Systems User Group – BizTalk Services questions

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BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part V

Windows Azure BizTalk Services is a relative new technology offered by Microsoft through Windows Azure. The service was launched beginning of June during the TechNet North America. It is still in preview mode. I have written a few posts on this technology through this blog.

During the recent event in London called the Hybrid Organisation, Sam VanHoutte from Codit presented A lap around the

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BizTalk Professionals can find there tools through the TechNet Wiki

In past I have written quite a few articles for the TechNet Wiki and I sometimes blog on TechNet Wiki Blog. One of my recent posts was on tools:

There are many tools 3rd party available or from Microsoft that can help a professional in building robust applications. This accounts for many technologies and server products like BizTalk Server, .NET, and SharePoint. The TechNet Wiki plays an

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Monitor BizTalk Server Job

I recently created an article on TechNet Wiki on the Monitor BizTalk Server Job.

The Monitor BizTalk Server job scans for issues, but does not fix them for you! It consist of two steps. First step is the execution of the [btsmon_Inconsistancies] stored-procedure. This procedure will on its turn call other procedures in the MessageBox, Management and Tracking database to collect error data (like

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Richard Hallgren

Holidays are over and I enjoyed my stay in Spanish Pyrenees and France (Béziers). In case you ever visit the Spanish Pyrenees you might see sights like this when hiking through the mountains.



Now back to reality. Sun has stop shining (it will return Thursday though) here in the Netherlands and it is back work.

Today’s story in this post will be on Richard Hallgren, who works as a Solution

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BizTalk Innovation Days and the Connected Systems Event

Coming months I will be attending and speaking at the following events:

I'll be attending a one-day event hosted by the UK Connected Systems Group: The Hybrid Organization.This event focuses on hybrid integration strategies using Windows Azure and the Microsoft platform.
I will be speaking at a two-day event hosted by Bouvet: BizTalk Innovation Day 2013. This event will be targeted for

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Scott Banwart

It’s summertime and we are experiencing  heat waves combined with days or rain and clouds here in the Netherlands. I am working at customers, while it’s hot outside, preparing for my marathon in Berlin (end of September) and a few talks for later this year (Norway, Italy). The community is still going strong and a lot of them are contributing through different channels. One of community members

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BizTalk REST Support Resources

Microsoft offers REST support in BizTalk Server 2013 through the WCF-WebHttp Adapter. Something that has been anticipated by BizTalk developers for sometime. With BizTalk Server 2010 there was already quite a demand resulting:

in a TechNet Wiki Article called Invoke ReSTful Web Services with BizTalk Server 2010 describing a solution to consume Restful services with BizTalk 2010,
and a REST

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TechNet Wiki and Integration

Recently I wrote a post for TechNet Wiki Blog and pointed out that many resources can be found through the TechNet Wiki. So in case you want to check out what is available on TechNet Wiki around integration I suggest reading Integration is my business and business is good!.

I have been working on a couple of articles for TechNet Wiki last 18 months and published them. I am not the only one.

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BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part IV

In the first post
on BizTalk Services I discussed setting up the service in Windows
Azure. One of the first steps in the setup was specifying  the database
settings, access control and monitoring. In this post I like to discuss
the tracking and monitoring of BizTalk Services and deployed solutions.

The SQL database is setup for tracking
purposes. This database is provisioned in Windows

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BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part III

BizTalk Services provides
a great way to build hybrid solutions. It broadens the number of
options you have as an architect, developer to design and build
integration solution. This new service in Windows Azure offers B2B in
the Cloud supporting EDI, Integration with SaaS solutions and create
bridges between Line-Of-Business(LOB) systems and the Cloud through
various protocols.

This

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Microsoft Integration MVP 2013

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again!



For me this is the fourth time
to receive this award. The third year in the program has been an
awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things
and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Eldert Grootenboer

Recently I visited fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Nino Crudele in Italy and met with some of his fellow BizTalk colleagues. I am amazed by work Nino and his fellow country man put in for the (local) community and their customers. The same dedicated I see in my own country. One of them is Eldert Grootenboer. Today’s story is about him.

Eldert is 30 years old, and lives in Rijen in Brabant,

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BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part II

Last year in December 2012 during the BizTalk Summit we first as a preview saw the progress Microsoft BizTalk Product Team made on the BizTalk Services. Now it is here as preview for the general audience. Fellow Microsoft Integration MVP’s Kent Weare (Introducing Windows Azure BizTalk Services Preview –Part 1, Part 2) and Richard Seroter (Walkthrough of New Windows Azure BizTalk Services) shared

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BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part I Set-Up

Today Scott Guthrie announced a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. One of these is of interest to us integration professionals: BizTalk Services. A new service in the Windows Azure Platform that enables EDI and EAI integration in the cloud. Now many of you might know or is familiar with previous Windows Azure EAI/EDI labs, which can be considered as a Beta or preview of this new

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NDepend: Manage your .NET Code

Many of will like myself will code once and a while. As a BizTalk professional it is inevitable that you will code for instance a pipeline component, a helper class, functoid, or other custom code to support your solution or test.

There are many tools available to make you more productive and provide you ability to create robust and high quality code. Either you find open source tools through

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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Rob Fox

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