Blog Post: First flight drama after so many years flying
I boarded BA flight BA0049 to Seattle this afternoon for the MVP Global Summit 2013. It’s pretty standard stuff, normal airport security and boarded the flight at 14:30. After about an hour flying we...
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Blog Post: Azure: 6 weeks of Azure–let the games begin
Day #1 has been officially launched for the 6 weeks of Azure Program. Rocky & Christian at Microsoft are busy combining a great community effort with help from myself & Mahesh, Bill Chesnut...
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Blog Post: Problems deploying BRE Policies using .NET Facts and suggested...
As much as I am a fan of the Business Rules Engine (BRE) shipped with BizTalk Server there are times when I think it could use some more love from our friends at Microsoft, and never have I felt this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Talking about Startup, entrepreneurship at MVP Global Summit 2013
Over the past couple of years I have given lot of talks about BizTalk360 across various countries. It was not a problem at all, you can wake me up in the middle of night and I can start presenting...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oporto BizTalk Innovations days March 14th
Sometimes I wonder where the time flies. I only have one week left of work when I get home from the MVP Summit this week, and I have 16 weeks paternity leave to stay home with my son. This will give me...
View ArticleBlog Post: Android Date Time Picker Dialog
While looking for the best way to implement an input widget to retrieve the users’s Date of Birth I came across this input field while editing a contacts information in the generic People List that...
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Blog Post: Publishing ASP.NET Web Sites to “Windows Azure Web Sites” Service
Today, Microsoft made a number of nice updates to their Visual Studio tools and templates. On thing pointed out in Scott Hanselman’s blog post about it (and Scott Guthrie’s post as well), was the...
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Blog Post: BizTalk: REST getting nice URLs with IIS Url Rewrite
“Ding ding” after spending 4 rounds(hours) in the ring with this guy, I’m taking the gloves off and heading for the showers and salts. I’m in the middle of some BizTalk work (which is nice for a...
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Blog Post: Using key file authentication with the BizTalk SFTP adapter
Authentication on an SFTP location can be done with simple username/password credentials… However another way to authenticate the sender is by using a Key Authentication file. But how can this last...
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Blog Post: Microsoft: There’s something you don’t see everyday!
When I went to the Microsoft Partner Portal – Boom! https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/au/Pages/index.aspx Blog Post by: Mick Badran
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Blog Post: BizTalk Send Ports, WS-Addressing, ClientVia and non-http prefixed...
Through WS-Addressing services can require a certain value in the ws-addressing <wsa:to> SOAP header. WCF has full support for this. This support is inherited by the WCF-Adapters. When using...
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Blog Post: BizTalk Send Ports, WS-Addressing, ClientVia and non-http prefixed...
In a previous post I explained how we had a need to use the WS-Addressing To header to send a non-http prefixed URI, such as urn:company/path/subpath/Service1, and how that was supported, after a...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk 2013 heavy investment for healthcare
If you still think BizTalk is dead I command you to stop thinking this, after the MVP Summit a total of around 10 Integration MVPs (The BizTalk part) Had lots of talks with Microsoft marketing and the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Next speaking engagement Portugal: Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day
March 14th I’ll be in Oporto during the Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day in Portugal. The event is organized by Sandro Pereira and Devscope. Sandro and I will be joined on stage by Microsoft Integration...
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Blog Post: ESB Toolkit 2.2 Beta (Windows Azure VM): Configuration
Overview The following is a “brain-dump” of my experiences configuring ESB Toolkit 2.2 on a Windows Azure VM using the BizTalk Server 2013 beta (February 15th 2013 revision) on Windows Server 2012....
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Johann Cooper
Many of my fellow Integration MVP’s are active within the BizTalk community. This also accounts for some of my colleagues at motion10. There are more companies in the world that have a number of their...
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Blog Post: Porting the WCF Test Step from BizUnit 2.0 to BizUnit 4.0...
Whipping up a BizUnit test step using the BizUnit 4.0 libraries is a piece of cake, but chances are that any test step you write is going to be used multiple times throughout the life of a project and...
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Blog Post: key file authentication with the BizTalk SFTP adapter
Authentication on an SFTP location can be done with simple username/password credentials… However another way to authenticate the sender is by using a Key Authentication file. But how can this last...
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Blog Post: Change SQL backup location
During the installation of a SQL instance, you'll have the ability to define some foldersThese locations can be defined:User database directoryUser database lof directoryTemp DB directoryTemp DB log...
View ArticleBlog Post: Under the hood of the "Cumulative concatenate" functoid
What's under the hood of the cumulative concatenate functoid in the BizTalk mapper. Analytics of current code, compared with an xslt file, optimalisations and profiling.
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