I hope you are all keeping safe in these unprecedented times. That’s the number one priority for all of us to protect ourselves and close family, friends, and employees. 

None of us anticipated the changes that we are going through at the moment with COVID-19. Every business is forced to rethink their strategies and adapt to conditions no one has experienced before. 

For the past few weeks, we were closely monitoring the situation and thinking deeply about the INTEGRATE 2020 plans. Until the mid of March, our response was, “things will be normal by June”, “90 days is a long time for this to last” but as the days passed by we soon started to realize the reality watching the daily increases in positive cases and deaths across the world. 

The situation is not going to get any better for another few months, even if it all gets resolved we are going to see a huge difference in the way people are going to interact. Maybe giving handshakes might forever be replaced by India’s way of greeting “Namaste” without physical contact. People may be hesitant to get into crowded spaces like conferences. Social distancing might become the norm of day to day life. We need to wait and see. 

Considering all the factors, we made a big decision to take INTEGRATE 2020 into a virtual conference with a new branding called “INTEGRATE 2020 REMOTE” The same INTEGRATE we all loved but going virtual/remote this year.

INTEGRATE 2020 REMOTE

This is one of the world’s first virtual Remote conference focused on Microsoft Integration Technologies. The event will be held between 1st-3rd June as we originally planned. The complete speaker’s list and agenda are now updated on our brand new website INTEGRATE 2020 REMOTE.

Speakers: 30+ (Microsoft Product Teams, Microsoft MVP’s)

Sessions: 29 (pure Microsoft Integration tech)

Timing: 12pm -7pm (UK Time)

Delivery: via Special virtual web conferencing platform

Registration: Register Now

Why I should attend INTEGRATE 2020 Remote?

When we started the idea of the virtual conference, we started the discussion with people to brainstorm ideas including the speakers from Microsoft and MVP’s. One of the questions that came up is, how can we differentiate INTEGRATE compared to just watching videos from other Microsoft Conferences like Ignite and Build.

The principle of INTEGRATE still remains the same. A conference focused purely on Microsoft Integration Technologies. There may be odd sessions here and there on Microsoft Conferences, I can guarantee, you are never going to see a single session on BizTalk Server. 

However, with INTEGRATE, we are consolidating all Microsoft Integration focused content in a single place covering on-premise (BizTalk Server), cloud (Azure Logic Apps, Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, Power Platform), and Hybrid in an intense 3 days conference, with its own keynote. 

If you are a Microsoft Integration professional, even if you attend part of the conference here and there, you’ll still see significant value educating and preparing yourself for the future.  Please go ahead and register now. 

Timing

12pm – 7pm UK Time

Running a global conference brings its own challenges. One of the main ones is picking up a convenient time that’s suitable for the global audience (Do you know? there are 24 timezones in the world). Of course, it will be very difficult to cater to every timezone, so we picked up a time slot that’s convenient to the majority of Europe (since INTEGRATE London is targeted mainly for European audience), the major portion of the USA, Middle East, and Asia. It’s going to be a challenge for people from Australia, New Zealand (that part of the world), but they can catch up with live recordings.  

Pricing

We significantly reduced the pricing of INTEGRATE 2020 REMOTE, we wanted as many people from the world to join and benefit from the conference. We kept the pricing really affordable to everyone. We are assuming at least 2-3 people will join from any company, bringing the price to $100/attendee (for the full 3 days conference), if you are above 6 people it will further reduce to about $80/attendees. 

Why are we charging? In order to run a conference of this magnitude in a professional way requires a lot of effort (even for a virtual conference). Right from the time investment in organizing and executing the event, marketing, and promotional activities to make the event successful, and running a conference with 1000+ attendees requires some investment in the technology.

We are not intending to make a profit out of the event, hence the price is kept at a bare minimum. Register Now

Will the videos be made public?

Eventually, we will make all the video content of INTEGRATE 2020 Remote available to everyone, similar to how we have done previous years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). However, we will not release the content immediately, it will be at least a few months to respect the people who have paid for the conference to support us. 

So if you wanted to hear the latest and great news, please register for the INTEGRATE 2020 Remote event (it’s affordable). 

What will happen to the existing INTEGRATE 2020 (London) attendees?

We are going to send out a separate email communication to all the current INTEGRATE 2020 (London) attendees. Basically, you’ll get a 100% refund of the ticket price you have paid. You simply buy the new INTEGRATE 2020 Remote tickets based on your requirements.  

Sponsors

We would like to thank the majority of our Sponsors who put their hands together to help us during this difficult situation. We are incurring a heavy financial loss by canceling the in-person event (ex: Venue agreed only for a partial refund).

They simply agreed to move their sponsorship package to the REMOTE event. We greatly appreciate their help, we are trying to compensate for their loss by increasing their brand visibility with greater attendees numbers. We also added a few more choices for the sponsors to match the virtual event.

If you are interested to become a sponsor, please email event@biztalk360.com requesting sponsorship opportunities. 

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 13. Once again, here is another pipeline component migrate to BizTalk Server 2020 that makes part of my BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project: XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component. This component was initially developed by Johan Hedberg. 

XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component

The XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in any stage of both receive and send pipelines to remove XML namespaces from XML documents.

This component has the availability to transform the root of the message from this:

<ns0:Blah xmlns:ns0="http://RemoveXmlNamespace.BTS.BlahMessage">
Into this:
<Blah>
If you have the option, you shouldn’t remove the namespace from the messages. However, we don’t leave in a perfect world and we need to deal with legacy systems and sometimes they required, for unknown reasons for me, that we deliver messages without namespace.
To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the RemoveXmlNamespace.PipelineComponents.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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Hi All,

This post is to describe and take through the steps to set up App Registrations for App Services and API Management using OAuth 2.0 with Azure Active Directroy.

1. App Registration in AAD for securing App Services (WebApps and FunctionApps) using OAuth 2.0 with Azure active directory

This App registration is for securing the App Services, and should be used by the consumers (registered on AAD) to access the respective WebAPIs and Functions.

1. Sign into Azure Portal.
2. Select App registration
3. Select New Registration.
4. Name the Application as “nonprod-<team>-appsvc-appreg” , where <team> will be organisational domain  etc.
5. Click Register.

6. In the newly created App Registration, select “Manifest” property.

7. In that section set the following oAuth2 permission in the manifest modifying “oauth2Permissions” element of JSON representation.

“oauth2Permissions”: [
{
“adminConsentDescription”: “Allows another AAD registered application to access the App services”,
“adminConsentDisplayName”: “Access App Services”,
“id”: “8jca6c61-0762-7b99-a1e1-e4bdf7e6e165”,
“isEnabled”: true,
“lang”: null,
“origin”: “Application”,
“type”: “User”,
“userConsentDescription”: “Allows another AAD registered application to access the App services”,
“userConsentDisplayName”: “Access App Services”,
“value”: “user_impersonation”
}
],

8. “Save” the App Registration changes. This also creates a scope associated to the App Registration.

9. Similarly follow the same for Staging and Production as per shown tabular column.

10. Add user accounts as “App Owner” to this App Registration

2) App Registration in AAD for API Manager (APIM) to secure APIs using OAuth 2.0 with Azure active directory

This App registration is for the APIM which creates the necessary roles that should be used by the consumers to access the APIs.

1. Select App registration
2. Select New Registration.
3. Name the Application as “nonprod–<companyname>-apim-appreg“
4. Click Register.
5. Select “Expose an API” and set “Application ID URI”

6. Select Manifest.

7. In that section set the following oAuth2 permission in the manifest modifying “appRoles” element of JSON representation as shown below.

“appRoles”: [
{
“allowedMemberTypes”: [
“Application”
],
“description”: “Allow client apps to perform read and write operations on <name>.v1 API.”,
“displayName”: “<name>.v1.ReadAndWrite”,
“id”: “da9a6ab2-bc67-4213-102c-07d5749ea2s3,
“isEnabled”: true,
“lang”: null,
“origin”: “Application”,
“value”: “<name>.v1.ReadAndWrite”
},
{
“allowedMemberTypes”: [
“Application”
],
“description”: “Allow client apps to perform read operation on <name>.v1 API.”,
“displayName”: “<name>.v1.Read”,
“id”: “8ceee182-dcd0-48b3-af69-1a7924dc9d15”,
“isEnabled”: true,
“lang”: null,
“origin”: “Application”,
“value”: “<name>.v1.Read”
}

]

}

8. Similarly follow the same for Staging and Production as per shown tabular column.

9. Add user accounts as “App Owner” to this App Registration.

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 14. Continuing the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project topic, today I released the: CBR Operation Promotion Encode Pipeline Component.

CBR Operation Promotion Encode Pipeline Component

The CBR Operation Promotion Encode Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in send pipelines, Encode stage, to promote Operation property. This component is useful to implement a pure Content-Based Routing solution to integrate with SQL Server.

The component will promote Operation property by taking the value (word) which lies ahead of the cardinal (#) from the MessageType message context property and promote it to the Operation Message Context Property.

This component doesn’t require any configuration.

To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the CBROperationPromotionDecode.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 15. Continuing the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project topic, today I released the: CBR IDoc Operation Promotion Encode Pipeline Component.

CBR Operation Promotion Encode Pipeline Component

The CBR IDoc Operation Promotion Encode Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in send pipelines, Encode stage, to promote IDOC Operation property. This component is useful to implement a pure Content-Based Routing solution to integrate with SAP Server.

This component requires one configuration that is the MessageType string to be ignored. Then it will take the last string (word) from the MessageType Message Context Property and promote it to the Operation Message Context Property.

To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the CBRIdocOperationPromotionDecode.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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The COVID-19 pandemic has enforced many of us to work from home. For almost all of us, this is the first time we are experiencing working from home culture, since this is a new circumstance and being productive and just staying quiet in these situations, is not always easy. Let’s hope everything comes under control soon and we will be back to our normal life.

Back in January, Microsoft announced the general public availability of BizTalk Server 2020, a new and most expected version by the BizTalk community. In this version, Microsoft offers many features and enhancements that are beneficial for BizTalk developers, business users and support engineers to carry out a smooth transaction of their business. So, we have decided to organize a webinar to showcase the most appealing new features and enhancements.

Why Attend this Webinar?

The webinar will be hosted by two of our senior Product Consultants, who have years of experience in the area of BizTalk Server and BizTalk360. We have designed the webinar to help you understand the new concepts, how to work on with thorough demos, and to provide you with much-needed answers and assistance. In fact, this webinar should leave you feeling excited, connected and knowing all the new concepts in BizTalk Server 2020.

Date: Thursday, 23rd of April

Time: 10 AM – 11 AM BST

This time we are thrilled to interview Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer – Samuel Kastberg, to share his insights about BizTalk Server 2020 in the webinar.

Join us and discover:

1. What are the newly supported platforms by BizTalk Server 2020?
2. Which are the new features and enhancements and how are they beneficial for different business users?
3. Availability of new hybrid adapters
4. What is there in Security and auditing perspective?
5. BizTalk360 support for BizTalk Server 2020

Save your Slot

Do you want to join us at the webinar on April 23rd? It is easiest to just add the webinar to your calendar. Just click here to register and leave your details. Shortly we will send you the confirmation mail.

Also, if you think you cannot attend the webinar at the specified time, no worries! Go ahead and register, our team will make sure to send you the webinar recording.

We are super excited about this webinar and eagerly looking forward to your presence and make sure to spread the word!

Here is a short clip highlighting the spoilers for this webinar.

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 16. We are almost finishing migrating all the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project, today is the component: Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp Pipeline Component.

Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp Pipeline Component

The Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in a send pipeline and is intended to carry forward the received custom SOAP Header to the outgoing message, in other words:

• This component will read the Custom SOAPHeader from the Message Context Properties
  • The custom header name will be defined on the component configuration and we can read it from the target http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/SOAPHeader
• and will configure this custom header in the OutboundCustomHeaders property used by the WCF-BasicHTTP Adapter.

The OutboundCustomHeaders property is used if you want to specify the custom SOAP headers for outgoing messages. When this property is used, the property must have the <headers> element as the root element. All of the custom SOAP headers must be placed inside the <headers> element

• If the custom SOAP header value is an empty string, you must assign <headers></headers> or <headers/> to this property.

This component is useful if you are implementing CBR operations on legacy service (SOAP – .asmx) using the new WCF-Adapters in BizTalk Server. Notice that the SOAP adapters, still present in BizTalk Server 2020, are obsolete and discontinued.

This component requires one configuration that is the SOAPHeaderName where you should specify the SOAP Header name present in the inbound message to be passed to the OutboundCustomHeaders in the outgoing message.

To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the CarrySOAPHeader.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 17. I have to confess I didn’t try yet the default JSON Encoder, but I trust this component is still useful in this new release, so today we are migrating the custom JSON Encoder component available in BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project: JSON Encoder Pipeline Component.

Carry SOAPHeader To WCF-BasicHttp Pipeline Component

This custom JSON Encoder Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in a Send Pipeline (Encode stage) to encode any XML message into a JSON equivalent in a simple and effective way. It is also 100% compatible with the default JSON Encoder component provided by Microsoft.

This component will allow you to choose between using the default pipeline component provide by Microsoft, at least the internal behavior because I build this pipeline component as an extension of the default JSON Encoder pipeline component, or use the custom behavior that I created. So, from the BizTalk Administration console you will be able to decide if:

• You want to use
  the behavior of the default JSON Encoder pipeline component provide by
  Microsoft by setting the UseCustomEncoder property to False;

• or use the custom
  behavior to generate the JSON message by setting the UseCustomEncoder property
  to True;

To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the CustomJSONEncoder.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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Do you feel difficult to keep up to date on all the frequent updates and announcements in the Microsoft Integration platform and Azure iPaaS?

Integration weekly update can be your solution. It’s a weekly update on the topics related to Integration – enterprise integration, robust & scalable messaging capabilities and Citizen Integration capabilities empowered by Microsoft platform to deliver value to the business.

Microsoft Announcements and Updates

• Azure Monitor Application Insights is now in preview
• Storage Analytics logs for Azure Data Lake Storage are now generally available
• Direct Upload of Azure Managed Disks is generally available
• 15 new connectors and use Azure AD with the SQL Server connector
• Bring your own machine to Visual Studio Online

Community Blog Posts

• JSON Encoder Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server 2020   by Sandro Pereira
• Multi-Part Message Attachments Zipper Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server 2020  by Sandro Pereira
• .NET 5.0, VS2019 Preview and C# 9.0 for ASP .NET Core developers  by Shahed Chowdhuri
• Using xUnit to Test your C# Code by Andrea Chiarelli
• Simple ALM for Power Apps/Dynamics 365 Projects Revisited – Power Apps Build Tools edition  by Nick Doelman
• Productivity Skills to Help You Gain Time Back  by Steve Glaveski

Videos

• Understanding Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB)  via channel9
• How to choose Azure services for working with messages in your application  via Azure Friday
• How to choose Azure services to speed up your application  via Azure Friday
• Creating a GraphQL Backend  via channel9

Podcasts

• Jay Harris on Distributed DevOps  via Azure DevOps Podcast
• OpenHack Program  via The Azure Podcast
• Azure for Government with Vishwas Lele  via .Net Rocks Podcast
• Bringing Medical products to market safely with Emily Gorcenski  via Hansleminutes Podcast

How to get started with iPaaS design & development in Azure?

• Robust Cloud Integration with Azure
• Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When
• Serverless Computing: The Big Picture
• Azure Logic Apps: Getting Started
• Azure Logic Apps: Fundamentals
• Microsoft Azure Developer: Creating Enterprise Logic Apps
• Microsoft Azure API Management Essentials
• Azure Functions Fundamentals
• Cloud Design Patterns for Azure: Availability and Resilience
• Architecting for High Availability in Microsoft Azure

Feedback

Hope this would be helpful. Please feel free to reach out to me with your feedback and questions.

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In the last couple of months, we have brought several blog posts about BizTalk Server 2020. In today’s blog post about the BizTalk Server 2020 features, we will have a look at the Analytics features.

In the “What’s New in BizTalk Server 2020” article, which has been published by Microsoft during the release of the product, under Analytics they mention “Leveraging the power of Azure (Application Insight and Event Hub) for deep data storage and Power BI for reporting and viewing of data”.

To be able to leverage the power of Azure, BizTalk Server 2020 can push different kinds of data to Application Insights, Event Hubs and/or Power BI. As it depends on what kind of data can be pushed to the different Azure storages, let’s have a look at the business-wise possibilities of pushing BizTalk data to Azure. A few possibilities would be:

• Analyze processed data and execute advanced queries
• Collect BizTalk metrics for data processing
• Get visual representations of tracked data

Let’s have a bit more detailed look at each of these scenarios.

Analyze Processed Data and Execute Advanced Queries

With this, you will be able to get all kinds of interesting data about what all becomes processed through your BizTalk environment. Think of statistics around the number of processed messages per port or schema. But it does not end there, as you can also track your promoted properties, you will also be able to get statistics around business entities! Besides querying for such a date, you can also create charts based on the same data.

To get this to work, the following prerequisites apply:

• In Azure: An Application Insights instance to which the data will be pushed (the Instrumentation key is used for authentication)
• In BizTalk: Analytics must be enabled and configured at the Group level
• In BizTalk: In at least one receive/send port or an orchestration, Analytics must have been enabled (don’t forget to restart your Tracking Host)

Documentation on how to set this up can be found here. A much more detailed blog on this topic can be found here.

Collect BizTalk Metrics for Data Processing

Instead of pushing your BizTalk data to Application Insights, you can also push the data to an Event Hub. This enables you to stream the Event Hub data to Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage. This enables you to focus on processing the streamed data, rather than on capturing it.

Alternatively, you could use the new Event Hub adapter to retrieve the tracked data back from the Event Hub and use it for your own purposes. You could think of storing the data in a separate database and use it for reporting or analytic purposes. An advantage of this approach is that you could keep the size of your tracking database limited, while still being able to access the data (via a separate database).

To be able to push tracked data to Event Hubs, the prerequisites are:

• In Azure: You need an Azure Event Hub namespace and Event Hub. A SAS (namespace-level) or Event Hub-level policy is used to authenticate
• In BizTalk: Analytics must be enabled and configured at the Group level
• In BizTalk: In at least one receive/send port or an orchestration, Analytics must have been enabled (don’t forget to restart your Tracking Host)

If you need help to set this up, you can refer to this article.

Get Visual Representations of Tracked Data

You can also push your tracked data to Power BI. By doing so, you can access your operational BizTalk data anywhere and on any device. Your operational data can consist of the following categories:

‘regular’ BizTalk data

• Application data
• Instance information
• Messages
• Subscriptions
• Tracked Events

BizTalk EDI data

• AS2 Status Records
• Batching information
• Interchange Aggregations Records
• Interchange Status Records
• Transaction reports
• Transaction sets

After the installation of the prerequisites, you will be able to access the data in Power BI and create dashboards that are based on your operational BizTalk data.

BizTalk Server 2020 contains a pre-defined Power BI template that shows out-of-the-box graphs and charts.

See below for an example of how this looks like.

Besides sticking with the pre-defined template, you have abilities like checking data in tabular form (including drill-down), change chart types, select measures and dimensions, and so on.

To be able to access your BizTalk operational data in Power BI, the following prerequisites must have been met:

• Install Power BI Desktop on a computer that has access to your BizTalk environment
• Configure the BizTalk Server 2020 REST APIs for Operational data service
• If your BizTalk installation is on-premise then you need to install the Power BI Gateway, to be able to connect to PowerBI.com.

More information about this can be found at Microsoft Docs. Read about Power BI at its web site.

If you want to read more on how you can set up Power BI to access your BizTalk operational data, check Sandro’s whitepaper.

More Resources on BizTalk Server 2020

Besides the blog posts, we are bringing much more content about BizTalk Server 2020. Check below resources to learn more about these community initiatives:

BizTalk Server 2020 landing page

To start with, you can visit our BizTalk Server 2020 landing page, which not just contains links to articles from ourselves but also from Microsoft and community members all about BizTalk Server 2020! We are frequently revisiting that page ourselves to make sure that it contains the most accurate and useful articles for you.

Whitepapers and e-books

We are in the progress of updating the current set of whitepapers and e-books about earlier versions of the BizTalk Server. Think of papers about installation and configuration of BizTalk Server, and so on. Current and updated papers can be found here.

BizTalk Server 2020 Webinar on April 23^rd

In a couple of weeks, we will be hosting a webinar dedicated to BizTalk Server 2020. If you want to more about it, check this link. 

Integration Monday session by Tom Canter

In February, Tom did a session in which he explained the new features in BizTalk Server 2020. You can view the recording of his session on this page.

New LinkedIn group: BizTalk Server (verified)

On LinkedIn, we have initiated a new group that focusses on BizTalk Server. There, we share hand-picked content about BizTalk Server. To be able to join that group, it is important that you are currently working with BizTalk Server. Submitting your interest in being part of that group is required, as that also enables us to keep recruiters away from the group. Do you want to participate? Enter the form here: LinkedIn Group Access.

Conclusion

Since the release of BizTalk Server 2020, over the last couple of months, we have brought several articles about the latest release of BizTalk Server. Besides this new blog post, we are planning to bring even more posts. So, be sure to visit our blog regularly, as you might find more relevant articles for you.

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 18. Another blog post about the topic and project BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack, but this time it is a brand new component: XML Namespace Management Pipeline Component.

XML Namespace Management Pipeline Component

This custom XML Namespace Management Pipeline Component it is basically the opposite of the XML Namespace Remover Pipeline Component. It is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in any stage of both receive and send pipelines that allow you to add or change the namespace to inbound and outbound BizTalk Messages.

Once again, this component allow you to add a namespace to inbound and outbound BizTalk Messages, transforming the root of the message from this:

<sample>
  <to>Sandro</to>
  <from>Pereira</from>
</sample>
Into this:
<sample xmlns="http://blog.sandro-pereira.com/">
  <to>Sandro</to>
  <from>Pereira</from>
</sample>
Or change the existing namespace of inbound and outbound BizTalk Messages, transforming the root of the message from this:
<sample xmlns="http:/demo/">
  <to>Sandro</to>
  <from>Pereira</from>
</sample>
Into this:
<sample xmlns="http://blog.sandro-pereira.com/">
  <to>Sandro</to>
  <from>Pereira</from>
</sample>
This component requires one configuration that is the TargetNamespace in which you specify the namespace you want to set on the message.
To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the BizTalk.PipelineComponents.NamespaceMgmt.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 19. To finalize this topic about the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions UtilityPack project, here another brand new component: XML Namespace Stripper Pipeline Component. I actually create this component for a need in a recent RosettaNet project.

XML Namespace Management Pipeline Component

This custom XML Namespace Stripper Pipeline Component is a pipeline component for BizTalk Server which can be used in a Send Pipeline (Encode stage) to remove all namespaces and prefix from an XML message.

Once again, the goal of this component is to clean up all namespaces and prefix present in XML outbound messages, transforming the the message from this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ns0:Pip7B1WorkInProcessNotification xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.microsoft.com/biztalk/btarn/2004/7B1_MS_V01_00_WorkInProcessNotification.dtd" xmlns:ns1="http://Microsoft.Solutions.BTARN.Schemas.RNPIPs.BaseDataTypes" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
  <ns0:fromRole>
    <ns0:PartnerRoleDescription>
      <ns0:ContactInformation>
        <ns0:contactName>
          <ns0:FreeFormText>Demo</ns0:FreeFormText>
        </ns0:contactName>
        <ns0:EmailAddress>demo@demo.com</ns0:EmailAddress>
        <ns0:telephoneNumber>
          <ns0:CommunicationsNumber>000-111-2222 EXT 1111</ns0:CommunicationsNumber>
        </ns0:telephoneNumber>
      </ns0:ContactInformation>
      <ns0:GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>Solution Provider</ns0:GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>
      <ns0:PartnerDescription>
        <ns0:BusinessDescription>
          <ns0:GlobalBusinessIdentifier>000000001</ns0:GlobalBusinessIdentifier>
        </ns0:BusinessDescription>
        <ns0:GlobalPartnerClassificationCode>Contract Manufacturer</ns0:GlobalPartnerClassificationCode>
      </ns0:PartnerDescription>
    </ns0:PartnerRoleDescription>
  </ns0:fromRole>
  ...
  <ns1:OrderReference>
	  <ns0:DocumentReference>
		<ns0:GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>Purchase Order</ns0:GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>
		<ns0:LineNumber>00001</ns0:LineNumber>
		<ns0:ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>QctPoNumber_0</ns0:ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>
	  </ns0:DocumentReference>
	  <ns0:DocumentReference>
		<ns0:GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>Customer Batch Number</ns0:GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>
		<ns0:ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>Name_0</ns0:ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>
		<ns0:RevisionNumber>Value_0</ns0:RevisionNumber>
	  </ns0:DocumentReference>
	</ns1:OrderReference>
	...
 </ns0:Pip7B1WorkInProcessNotification>
Into this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Pip7B1WorkInProcessNotification>
  <fromRole>
    <PartnerRoleDescription>
      <ContactInformation>
        <contactName>
          <FreeFormText>Demo</FreeFormText>
        </contactName>
        <EmailAddress>demo@demo.com</EmailAddress>
        <telephoneNumber>
          <CommunicationsNumber>000-111-2222 EXT 1111</CommunicationsNumber>
        </telephoneNumber>
      </ContactInformation>
      <GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>Solution Provider</GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>
      <PartnerDescription>
        <BusinessDescription>
          <GlobalBusinessIdentifier>000000001</GlobalBusinessIdentifier>
        </BusinessDescription>
        <GlobalPartnerClassificationCode>Contract Manufacturer</GlobalPartnerClassificationCode>
      </PartnerDescription>
    </PartnerRoleDescription>
  </fromRole>
  ...
  <OrderReference>
	  <DocumentReference>
		<GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>Purchase Order</GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>
		<LineNumber>00001</LineNumber>
		<ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>0000000001</ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>
	  </DocumentReference>
	  <DocumentReference>
		<GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>Customer Batch Number</GlobalDocumentReferenceTypeCode>
		<ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>demo</ProprietaryDocumentIdentifier>
		<RevisionNumber>D</RevisionNumber>
	  </DocumentReference>
	</OrderReference>
	...
</Pip7B1WorkInProcessNotification>
This component doesn’t require any configuration.
To use this pipeline component in your projects you just copy the NamespaceStripper.dll file into the Pipeline Components folder that exists in the BizTalk Server installation directory:

• ..Program Files (x86)Microsoft BizTalk ServerPipeline Components;

on every server.

You do not need to add this custom pipeline component to be used by the BizTalk Runtime to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

What is BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack?

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack is a set of custom pipeline components (libraries) with several custom pipeline components that can be used in received and sent pipelines, which will provide an extension of BizTalk out-of-the-box pipeline capabilities.

The project is available on the BizTalk Server Open Source Community repository on GitHub (https://github.com/BizTalkCommunity), and everyone can contribute with new pipeline components that can be extended or improve the existing BizTalk Server capabilities.

At the moment this project is available for:

• BizTalk Server 2020;
• BizTalk Server 2016;
• BizTalk Server 2010;
• BizTalk Server 2006-2009

Where to download it?

You can download BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack from GitHub here:

BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack

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BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 20. Finally, the last blog post of this season. What supposed to be 20 blog posts in 20 days has become a challenge difficult to fulfill because of the current circumstances all over the world, in which parents are working from home with their children, also studying from home. Nevertheless, I only needed the double of time (additional 22 days) to finish the initial goal.

And to finalize this season, I reserved the best for the end :). My new BizTalk Server Lord Darth Vader sticker. I wasn’t supposed to share this sticker in this way, the initial intention was to present and give it away (physical sticker) at the INTEGRATE 2020 event in London but do the circumstances and the fact that INTEGRATE 2020 will be an online event now, I decided to share here the support files for you to print it in a graphics shop if you want to have this Welcome To The Dark Side of the force sticker :).

Welcome To The Dark Side of the force

BizTalk Server was always the bad boy of integration, the one that nobody likes (but everyone admires or wish to have its skills). As a reference, the first marketing campaign produced by Microsoft, BizTalk was a T-Rex (a bad boy).

Because I’m a star wars fan, and when I decide to create this new sticker version coincided a little bit as the release of the last film, I decide to create this new Lord BizTalk Darth Vader version maintaining the bad boy concept.

This package is a collection of 3 different image formats of the new Lord BizTalk Darth Vader sticker, two of them are available in vector format that will allow you to use and resize without losing quality:

• BizTalk-Darth-Vader.ai
• BizTalk-Darth-Vader.pdf
• BizTalk-Darth-Vader-01.png

All of the
resources are in the original size ready to print in a graphics shop.

Thanks to Cristóvão Silva (Graphic & Web Designer @ DevScope) for helping me creating these resources.

I hope you enjoy!

I already have several stickers printed that I will give away in future events or ship for some of you that will organize events.

until then, stay safe and stay at home!

Download

Lord BizTalk Darth Vader sticker
GitHub

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As you know BizTalk360 keeps up its standard by introducing new features or by improving existing features, that ease the user experience to the next level in every single release. We are delighted to inform you that the next version of BizTalk360 V9.1 will be released for production use within a couple of days!

New Features Introduced in BizTalk360 V9.1

Clustered NT Service Monitoring

BizTalk360 is already capable of monitoring clustered BizTalk and SQL Server resources such as Disks, System Resources, Event Logs, and NT Services. In the case of the failover scenario, the BizTalk360 monitoring service will automatically take the active server for monitoring.    

From this version on, the user can monitor clustered NT Services by setting up the expected state of the clustered service as ‘At least One Active’.

Consider a scenario where you have a clustered BizTalk environment, in which your Enterprise Single sign-on service is configured as Generic Type, i.e the SSO service is clustered, and you want to ensure that the SSO service should up and running in at least one of the clustered nodes.  This can be easily achieved through BizTalk360 NT service monitoring.

With this feature, you can monitor the state of your NT services in your BizTalk or SQL servers by configuring the Expected state as Started or Stopped. The clustered NT service can be monitored by configuring the expected state as “Atleast One Active”. The BizTalk360 monitoring service will ensure that the configured service is always up and running in any of the respective clustered nodes.  An alert will get triggered to the configured email-Id when the service goes down in all the nodes.

NOTE: For better understanding, the clustered nodes are grouped with similar colour code.

The user can also set up AutoCorrect for this. In this case, when the SSO service goes down in both the clustered nodes, then the BizTalk360 monitoring service will automatically try to start the service in any of the nodes. With this, you can ensure that there is no downtime in the service. 

Recurrence Scheduled Maintenance

The latest version of BizTalk360 will hold the enriched form of Stop alerts for maintenance, which is renamed as “Scheduled Maintenance”. Schedules can be configured to stop monitoring immediately or at a later point in time, based on your maintenance plan.

Immediate Maintenance

You can set up the maintenance immediately from the current time by enabling the ‘Immediate’ option and providing the maintenance End Date and Time in the schedule configuration.

Future Maintenance

Configure the schedule with Start and End Date/Time to stop monitoring during the future maintenance period. A future maintenance schedule can be configured for both once or recurrence execution.

1. One Time Execution – You can create a One Time Schedule, if you want to stop the monitoring during, for example, the deployment of BizTalk applications, which has been planned only once in the future date, i.e on June 1st from 9 AM to 11 AM.

2. Recurrence Execution – The schedule will be created once and can be executed multiple times based on the recurrence pattern daily, weekly, monthly, i.e daily 10-11 PM, alternate weekends, 4th Wednesday of every month, etc.

The user can now also edit the schedule and manually stop the maintenance in between, i.e. before the maintenance period gets over. So, it is not required to wait until the end of the configured maintenance cycle.

Schedule actions such as create, delete, modify, stop maintenance are audited for further reference.

Monitoring Improvements

Web Endpoint Monitoring

Monitoring Status Enabled/Disabled is introduced in Web Endpoint monitoring. This enables the user to define when BizTalk360 should start/stop monitoring the configured Web Endpoint.

For instance, you may configure multiple Web Endpoints, but you temporarily don’t want to monitor all the endpoints. In this case, you can set the monitor status as Disabled for those endpoints.

BizTalk360 will start to monitor the configured Web Endpoints only if the status is set as Enabled.

Clone Alarm

Users can now easily copy all the artifacts mapped for monitoring and the data monitoring configurations from one alarm to another. With the Clone alarm feature, users can copy both the alarm configurations and all the artifacts mapping configurations.

MSMQ Age Monitoring

With this enhancement, the user can monitor the oldest message in an MSMQ queue by using the threshold parameter ‘Message Age’. This threshold parameter is added to monitor and alert the oldest message in MSMQ, based on the configured message age units’ Days/hours/minutes.

Mapped Artifacts  

All the artifacts that have been configured for monitoring under a particular alarm are listed in the Manage Mapping section in Monitoring Dashboard.

SMTP Notification Channel  

The user can define for which error type(s) notifications should be sent through SMTP notification channels, i.e. only in case of Error & Warning or Error/Warning/Healthy state of the artifacts.

Rename Data Monitoring Schedule

The created Data Monitoring schedule can be edited and renamed at a later point in time. Also, users are restricted to create a duplicate schedule for the same alarm under the same monitor type.

Analytics Improvements

SQL Server Performance Widget

Widget to show the SQL server performance (CPU & Memory Usage) is added in the Analytics dashboard.

Reassociate the SQL Query

In the Reporting section, the Secure SQL Query widget can be edited and re-associated to any configured Secure SQL Query.

Event Log Data Collection Optimization

In earlier versions, the Advanced Event Viewer feature collected all the Event log entries for the configured Event Logs and Event Log Sources, but irrespective of error levels. From this version on, to avoid data growth, the user can (de)select the error levels (Information, Warning, Error, etc ) which should be collected. This way, BizTalk360 will start collecting event logs based on the selected error levels.

View MDN Message in EDI AS2

EDI AS2/MDN message content can be viewed as an encoded and wired format.

BizTalk Server 2020 Compatibility

We are proud to share that BizTalk360 is now compatible with BizTalk Server 2020!

Group Properties

Under BizTalk Group properties, users can view newly added properties in BizTalk Server 2020. 

• Receive Location (Fault Tolerance)
• Audit Log Operation

Receive Location Advanced Schedule Configuration

The recurrence schedule configured in BizTalk Server 2020 receive locations can now be viewed in BizTalk360.

Conclusion

Considering the feedback from our customers, BizTalk360 will continue to provide more useful features. Why not give BizTalk360 a try! It takes only 10 minutes to install on your BizTalk environments and you can witness and check the security and productivity of your own BizTalk Environments. 

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Due to the world pandemic that we are facing this year, the Global Azure Bootcamp which is usually done in several cities at the same time will be for the first time an online event. And I would like you to invite to join us on the Virtual Global Azure Lisbon that will happen next Saturday – 25th April.

Logic Apps: Best practices, tips, and tricks

I’m thrilled to present once again on this fantastic event! In 2015 I spoke for the first time about Logic Apps, this year I return to the same topic in a session about Logic Apps: Best practices, tips, and tricks!

Abstract: Logic Apps: Best practices, tips, and tricks

10 tips you should know for being more productive and building more reliable, effective Logic Apps. In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Logic Apps processes and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective workflows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your workflows from the beginning.

Virtual Global Azure 2020 – Lisbon

This year we will have 7 top Microsoft Azure speakers Livestreamed for free. What are you waiting for? Get your free seat NOW here.

The agenda will be:

• 9:30 – 10:00 – Welcome
• 10:00 – 11:00 – Azure Monitor by Pedro Sousa
• 11:00 – 12:00 – Exciting features of the relational engine of Azure Synapse Analytics (Azure SQL DW) by Niko Neugebauer
• 12:00 – 13:00 – AKS and Apps by Virgilio Esteves
• 13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch Break
• 14:00 – 15:00 – Supercharge your App Service to Global scale by Tiago Costa
• 15:00 – 16:00 – Extend your Identity to the Cloud by Nuno Árias Silva
• 16:00 – 17:00 – Logic Apps: Best practices, tips, and tricks by Sandro Pereira
• 17:00 – 18:00 – Best Practices for Architecture and Real-time Data by Viviane Ribeiro
• 18:00 – Closing

Again, due to COVID-19, our event has been moved to virtual. We will share a link to Microsoft Teams with all the registered attendees. Join us, and reserve your presence here.

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Do you feel difficult to keep up to date on all the frequent updates and announcements in the Microsoft Integration platform and Azure iPaaS?

Integration weekly update can be your solution. It’s a weekly update on the topics related to Integration – enterprise integration, robust & scalable messaging capabilities and Citizen Integration capabilities empowered by Microsoft platform to deliver value to the business.

Microsoft Announcements and Updates

• New Azure API Management Visual Studio Code extension now available
• Workflow automation with Logic Apps
• Connector Certification now in ISV Studio
• Azure Monitor for virtual machines is now generally available
• Azure Support API is generally available
• Azure DevOps update to increase productivity and reduce latency

Community Blog Posts

• Azure Functions Live – April 2020  by Nadeem Ahame
• Calling APIm consumption SKU from Logic App  by Mikael Sand
• Encrypt Azure Service Bus Data at REST using User Keys  by Ranjith Eswaran
• Workflow Automation with Azure Function, Logic Apps and DevOps  by Codemongers
• How to monitor multiple Azure subscriptions in a single dashboard  by Sowndarya Balakrishnan
• Refactoring: This class is too large  by Clare Sudbery
• Try gh, GitHub’s new CLI  by John Papa

Videos

• Writing code and having fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock  via Azure Friday
• Introducing the Diagnostics Client Library for .NET Core  via channel9
• Entity Framework Core Part 1  via channel9
• Entity Framework Core Part 2  via channel9

Podcasts

• Azure Cognitive Search  via The Azure Podcast
• Guide to Remote Work with Courtney Nash  via The Hansleminutes Podcast

How to get started with iPaaS design & development in Azure?

• Robust Cloud Integration with Azure
• Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When
• Serverless Computing: The Big Picture
• Azure Logic Apps: Getting Started
• Azure Logic Apps: Fundamentals
• Microsoft Azure Developer: Creating Enterprise Logic Apps
• Microsoft Azure API Management Essentials
• Azure Functions Fundamentals
• Cloud Design Patterns for Azure: Availability and Resilience
• Architecting for High Availability in Microsoft Azure

Feedback

Hope this would be helpful. Please feel free to reach out to me with your feedback and questions.

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• LinkedIn

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After migrating the BizTalk Pipeline Components Extensions Utility Pack, now is time to dedicate my time to another one: BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack. And to start I have chosen the Conversion Functoids.

Conversion Functoids

Conversion functoids are used to convert one type of data to another type, for example between windows date into Unix date. Or use to convert between one format of a specific type of data into another format of that type, for example converting DateTime (Short Time Pattern, Short Date Pattern, Full DateTime Pattern, Universal Sorta­ble DateTime Pat­tern, …) .

This project includes the following Custom Functoids:

• Convert from human-readable to epoch date Functoid: This functoid allows you to convert a traditional date (Human Readable Date) into a Unix date (Epoch Date).
• Convert from epoch to human readable date Functoid This functoid allows you to convert a Unix date (Epoch Date) into a traditional date (Human Readable Date).
• Convert DateTime format Functoid: This functoid allows you to convert DateTime format.
• Convert to a Number Functoid: This functoid allows you to convert a string to a number (integer).

BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack

BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack is a set of libraries with several useful functoids to include and use it in a map, which will provide an extension of BizTalk Mapper capabilities.

Where to download?

You can download this functoid along with all the existing one on the BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack  here:

BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack
GitHub

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Introduction

Integrate is the premier event in the Microsoft Integration space. Every year it has happened in London, focusing on BizTalk & Azure. Due to Covid-19 pandemic uncertainty, Integrate 2020 is planned as a virtual conference.  In Integrate 2019, the Microsoft product group was announced the new version release of BizTalk Server 2020. Microsoft has announced the release of BizTalk Server 2020 early this year (January 15, 2020).

BizTalk Server 2020 has bundled with a lot of exciting features for BizTalk Administrators, operators, Developers, and Business users. Some of the Important features in BizTalk Server 2020 are

• Analytics
• Management APIS, API Management
• Advanced Scheduling
• Hybrid Adapters (Azure Blob, Service Bus v2, Event Hubs & Office 365)
• Audit Log
• XSLT 3.0

In this blog, we are focusing on the BizTalk Audit capabilities in BizTalk Server 2020. Different operations, that are performed in the BizTalk Admin console, are being audited. It could be useful to BizTalk Administrators and Deployment Teams to know what changes have happened in the BizTalk Group.

BizTalk Audit Activities

Auditing can be handy to backtrack changes that have happened in, among other things, BizTalk Applications. With this new auditing feature, the following activities are captured in the BizTalk Management Database (BizTalkMgmtDb). They are being stored in the table ‘bts_auditlog’.

Configure Audit Log Settings

Users can get started with audit capabilities, by enabling the Audit Management Operations property in the BizTalk group settings.

By default, 10.000 activities are audited. Users can increase or decrease the number of audit entries.

Audit Operations

In BizTalk Server 2020, operation metrics on different Artifacts are audited. Check the table below, for the operations which are audited with BizTalk Server 2020. 

View Audit Logs

To be able to view Audit data, users must install the Operational Data Service in IIS. After that, users can retrieve Audit log data with data range, as shown below;

http://localhost/BizTalkOperationalDataService/AuditLogs?fromDate=2019-12-25T01:00:00&toDate=2020-01-10

Supported date formats are yyyy-MM-dd or yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss.

So, in summary, you have two capabilities to view the Audit Log:

• Via the Operational Data Services
• Via the bts_auditlog table in the BizTalkMgmtDb

View BizTalk Audit Log in BizTalk360

BizTalk360 users can take advantage of custom widgets to visualize the audit logs that are captured in BizTalk Server 2020.  

Secure SQL Queries

BizTalk360 offers the Secure SQL Queries functionality as a secure platform to store and execute predefined queries. BizTalk360 comes pre-loaded with a set of queries that are of use for BizTalk administrators.

In addition, BizTalk360 allows you to manage the existing SQL queries and add/edit/delete your own queries.

Custom Widgets

The ability to create custom widgets is a powerful feature in BizTalk360 which enables you to integrate/visualize data from third-party sources using API methods or pull the data from databases through Secure SQL Queries.

We will have a look at how users can visualize the audit data from BizTalkMgmtDb in BizTalk360. The steps that are involved to create custom widgets are:

1. Create the Secure SQL Query to pull the audit log from the “bts_auditlog” table. In this custom widget script, we will show Artifact Name, Artifact Type, User, Machine, Operation, and CreatedDate.

 If you want to see the payload in the table, you can include the SQL script to visualize it in the operational dashboard.

SELECT [UserPrincipal],[Machine],[ArtifactType],[ArtifactName],[OperationName],[Payload],[CreatedDate] FROM BTS_AUDITLOG  ORDER BY [CreatedDate] Desc 

2. The next step is to create a custom widget. If you are new to custom widgets,
   follow this article which explains how to create custom widgets.

Custom Widgets Script

<div id="WidgetScroll" style="top:30px;" data-bind="addScrollBar: WidgetScroll, scrollCallback: 'false'">
          <table class="table table-lists">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th style="width:30%">Artifact Name</th>
                <th>Artifact Type</th>
                <th>User</th>
                <th>Machine</th>
                <th>Operation</th>            
              <th>Audit Date</th>              
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <!-- ko if: (auditActivities()) -->
            <!-- ko foreach: auditActivities().root.records.record -->
            <tr>
                <td data-bind="text: ArtifactName"></td>               
              <td data-bind="text: ArtifactType"></td>
               <td data-bind="text: UserPrincipal"></td>
               <td data-bind="text: Machine"></td>
               <td data-bind="text: OperationName"></td>              
               <td data-bind="text: CreatedDate"></td>
            </tr>
            <!-- /ko -->
          <!-- /ko -->
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>
  <script>
	username = "`username_119251`";
	password =  "`password_702990`";
	environmentId = "`environmentid_346562`";
	queryId = "408e4e00-dc6a-4d3b-a2dd-032ddd232ffe";
	queryName = "BizTalk Server 2020 Operations";
	sqlInstance = "KOVLTP013DEV";
	database = "BizTalkMgmtDb";
	sqlQuery = "SELECT [UserPrincipal],[Machine],[ArtifactType],[ArtifactName],[OperationName],[Payload],[CreatedDate] FROM BTS_AUDITLOG  ORDER BY [CreatedDate] Desc";
	url = 'http://localhost/BizTalk360/Services.REST/BizTalkGroupService.svc/ExecuteCustomSQLQuery';

	auditActivities = ko.observable();
	x2js = new X2JS({ attributePrefix: '' }); 

	auditActivitiesList = function () {
            var _this = this;			
            _this.getAuditActivities(function (data) {                
            _this.auditActivities(x2js.xml_str2json(data.queryResult));          
           });

        };
    getAuditActivities = function (callback) {
    var _this = this;			      
	$.ajax({
	dataType: "json",
	url: _this.url,
	type: "POST",
	contentType: "application/json",
	username: _this.username,
	password: _this.password,
	data: '{"context":{"environmentSettings":{"id":"'+ _this.environmentId + '","licenseEdition":0},"callerReference":"REST-SAMPLE"},"query":{"id":"'+ _this.queryId + '","name":"' + _this.queryName + '","sqlInstance":"' + _this.sqlInstance + '","database":"'+ _this.database +'","sqlQuery":"' + _this.sqlQuery + '","isGlobal":false}}',
	cache: false,
	success: function (data) {
		callback(data);
	},
	error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) { 
		alert(xhr.status);
		alert(xhr.responseText);
	},
});
        };
  auditActivitiesList();
</script>

3. Associate the widgets to the Operational dashboard to visualize the custom widgets. After this configuration, we can see the audit activities, in the tabular format, in a BizTalk360 dashboard

Conclusion

BizTalk360 has capabilities to audit the various operations (Applications Artifacts – Start/Stop, Host Instances – Enable/Disable, Service Instances – Resume/Terminate/Suspended, View Message Content, User Management- Add/Edit/Delete) which is performed in BizTalk360 web application. Thereby, this is more complete than the current features in BizTalk Server 2020. BizTalk360 users can take advantage of both auditing capabilities in a single tool.

Users can write more custom scenarios through Custom Widgets. This makes users more collaborative by using BizTalk360. Happy Integration!

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Do you feel difficult to keep up to date on all the frequent updates and announcements in the Microsoft Integration platform and Azure iPaaS?

Integration weekly update can be your solution. It’s a weekly update on the topics related to Integration – enterprise integration, robust & scalable messaging capabilities and Citizen Integration capabilities empowered by Microsoft platform to deliver value to the business.

Microsoft Announcements and Updates

• Azure App Service—.NET Core 3.1 is now generally available
• Azure Archive expanded capabilities now generally available
• Digitally transform your enterprise with Microsoft Power Automate
• What’s New for Azure Cosmos DB SDKs for .NET and Java

Community Blog Posts

• BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack: Conversion Functoids for BizTalk Server 2020  by Sandro Pereira
• BAM to achieve end to end message tracking in a Azure Serverless Application  by Nishanth Prabhakar
• Building modern public sites (JAM Stack) with Microsoft Flow  by John Liu
• Production Tips for ASP .NET Core 3.1 Web Apps  by Shahed
• Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches  by Martin Fowler
• Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases by Jaana Dogan
• Looking to build or sustain a personal brand in technology? Here are 10 things I’ve learned.  by Richard Serorter

Videos

• Codeless application monitoring with Azure Monitor  by Michael Milirud
• Entity Framework Core Part 3  via channel9
• Entity Framework Core Part 4  via channel9
• Entity Framework Core Part 5  via channel9
• Load data from Azure Blob storage into Azure SQL  via channel9

Podcasts

• Dapr, Arc and Cloud Native Innovations  via The Azure Podcast
• DevOps and GitHub Actions with Edward Thomson  via The Hanselminutes Podcast
• Versioning in a Pandemic with Jon Skeet  via via .Net Rocks Podcast

How to get started with iPaaS design & development in Azure?

• Robust Cloud Integration with Azure
• Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When
• Serverless Computing: The Big Picture
• Azure Logic Apps: Getting Started
• Azure Logic Apps: Fundamentals
• Microsoft Azure Developer: Creating Enterprise Logic Apps
• Microsoft Azure API Management Essentials
• Azure Functions Fundamentals
• Cloud Design Patterns for Azure: Availability and Resilience
• Architecting for High Availability in Microsoft Azure

Feedback

Hope this would be helpful. Please feel free to reach out to me with your feedback and questions.

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Due to the world COVID-19 pandemic, last Saturday, April 25, was held the first Virtual Global Azure Bootcamp, an event that normally happens in several cities across the world in simultaneous. The restrictions we are facing dictated that this year the format would have to be different. If, on one hand, the social aspect of the event was missing, on the other hand, it opened the door to a wider universe of people to be able to attend. Nevertheless, for me, this event was an amazing success and it was a great pleasure to be once again presenting on this event that I have a special affection for.

I think I’ve been present since the first edition of this event.

Today I’m happy to share with you the slides and the video of the session.

Logic Apps: Best practices, tips, and tricks

10 tips you should know for being more productive and building more reliable, effective Logic Apps. In this session, we will do a reflection to your existing Logic Apps processes and when thru a list of must-have best practices, tips, and tricks that will allow you to build more reliable and effective workflows. At the same time, these will allow you to be more productive and document your workflows from the beginning.

Video recording

Slides

I hope you enjoy it!

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