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Blog Post: 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...
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Blog Post: BizTalk Business Rules Policies not caching .NET facts by default
While debugging a pipeline component that made use of a Business Rules Engine (BRE) policy I noticed some behavior that stopped me right in my tracks (funnily enough, I actually enjoy being surprised...
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Blog Post: How to Remove an Orphaned Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disk and...
I have been spending a lot of time the past few weeks working with the Windows Azure Virtual Machines that are currently available as a Preview Feature.The ability to be up and running with a custom...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure Virtual Hard Disk (blob storage) Cross Account Copy,...
Recently the Windows Azure Storage API’s were updated to include the ability to do cross account, asynchronous blob transfers. This means it was no longer necessary to download the blob in order to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Working with the Add Disk Operation of the Windows Azure REST API
Recently I was looking at a forum question of someone trying to add a disk to the Azure Virtual Machines using the Windows Azure REST API.You have two types of Disks. You have a Data Disk that do not...
View ArticleBlog Post: Working with Windows Azure Virtual Machines using the Windows...
Windows Azure has a rich Management REST API for working with all types of artifacts. Continuing on with my current theme of working with the Windows Azure Virtual Machines in Preview mode I came...
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Blog Post: Window Azure Preview Portal Enhancements for Virtual Machines,...
Some enhancements were made this weekend to the Windows Azure Preview Portal. With these enhancements is the addition of Service Bus features and I think the ability to create Containers inside a...
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Blog Post: Windows Azure REST API Sample and Tool – GET, POST, & DELETE with...
Windows Azure has a few different, somewhat disjointed, toolsets available to create new artifacts and maintain existing ones. The best known is the Web Portal. Very quickly when working with the web...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Create a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Image without using...
Currently the Windows Azure Management Portal is having some difficulty using the UI to create an Image from an existing Virtual Machine.You have two different options to create an Image without using...
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Blog Post: How To Create a Base Disk or Image in Windows Azure Virtual...
The Windows Azure Storage API now have the ability to do cross account, asynchronous blob transfers. This means it is no longer required to download the blob in order to upload it to a different...
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Blog Post: Vote for “The Story of Your Life - Mr. Virtual Machine” in the...
Over the past few months I have been blogging a lot about the new Windows Azure Virtual Machines. That is because I can see the huge impact on projects for having this type of infrastructure available...
View ArticleBlog Post: November 11th – International Check Your Enterprise Single Sign-On...
Let this go down in the record books… that today marks the First Annual Celebration of International Check Your Enterprise Single Sign-On Master Secret Key Day!Picture this, it is 2 AM and you are...
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Blog Post: Setting Up BizTalk Server 2013 Beta on a Windows Azure Virtual...
A few days ago BizTalk 2013 Beta was announced and released for download. The plan is to make this available as a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Image just like the CTP but it has not yet been...
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Blog Post: Interview with me on technet wiki
Incase who ever it is who reads my blog happens to want to know a little more about me, Steef-Jan prepared an interview with me in relation to technet wiki last week.Its on the following...
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Blog Post: Azure: Sale that stopped the nation…for the wrong reason
You may have heard about ClickFrenzy where last night they launched a site with bargains for a few hours. Unfortunately there were far too many Error 500 – Server Too Busy errors and hence the site...
View ArticleBlog Post: Performance in pipeline components: location of...
Increase the performance of your custom BizTalk pipeline component with a VirtualStream and get the Microsoft.BizTalk.Streaming assembly from the GAC so you can use and reference it in your project.
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Blog Post: Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3.5:...
This is an extension to Part 3 in the IPASBR series, see also:Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise serviceIntegration Patterns with Azure Service Bus...
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Blog Post: A Simple Entity Tagger
In the REST world, ETags are your gateway to performance boosts by letting clients cache responses. In the non-REST world, you may also want to add an ETag to an entity definition inside a traditional...
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Blog Post: BizTalk Innovation Day – London | 16th January 2013 – London, England
After conducting this event across various major European cities: Amsterdam (Netherland), Milan (Italy), and Stavanger (Norway) since Feb 2011, it is really exciting to announce that the next event...
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Blog Post: WCF SQL operations
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 When adding WCF sql ports to BizTalk, you can add a whole host of different types of operation with SQL and it’s incredibly...
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