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Blog Post: How to migrate BizTalk maps to Windows Azure BizTalk Services...
Unlike schemas that you will be able to directly take your BizTalk Server schemas and use them in you WABS solution, BizTalk Maps needs to be migrated because despite the Transform Designer (mapping...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #21: Plan your Backup and DR strategy
Configure and activate the BizTalk Backup Job to generate the only supported BizTalk backup files and ensure you are able to restore them by planning and testing a disaster recovery plan. The success...
View ArticleBlog Post: WABS February 2014 - Backup and Restore
Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) provides capabilities for EAI and B2B in the cloud. This relative new service was made available for customers in November 2013. Microsoft committed to have a...
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Blog Post: BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard – HTTP 407 Proxy...
I got this error recently running the BizTalk WCF Consuming Wizard whilst working at a customers office when I didn’t previously (sensitive parts of the error message have been removed): I think it was...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #22: Use Webgarden for IIS scalability
When IIS becomes a bottleneck you can use webgarden for IIS scalability, this will create multiple hosting processes in the server and IIS will manage the balancing of load between them. Optimizing...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #23: Configure and activate the DTA Purge and...
Configure and activate the DTA Purge And Archive Job to maintain a healthy BizTalkDTADb database, just keep the tracking information you need and delete from the live tracking database a soon as...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #24: Maintain you Message Box efficiently
Don’t let your BizTalk Message Box database grow significantly by accumulating suspended messages, put in place a monitoring mechanism to identify and resolve suspended messages as soon as possible....
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Blog Post: XLVII Encontro da Comunidade SQLPort, dia 13 de Março de 2014 no...
This post is for the BizTalk Portuguese Community! Realiza-se no dia 13 de Março de 2014, o XLVII Encontro da comunidade SQLPort, que tem como objectivo a partilha de experiências e conhecimento entre...
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Blog Post: GWAB 2014: Global Windows Azure Bootcamp #GWAB – Coming to Sydney
Folks we’re finally here! The stage is set and light the lights as it’s all ready to go oooorrrrffff on March 29th 2014! What is it – it’s back!!!! The Global Windows Azure Bootcamp– over 134...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #25: Consider to prefer XSLT in maps
When developing maps consider using XSLT as the preferred language for describing your transformations by either using Custom XSLT, Scripting Functoids or even when developing Custom Functoids. This...
View ArticleBlog Post: Exploring the Windows Azure BizTalk Service Explorer Features
Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) is general available now as a service within Windows Azure. To test or debug your Windows Azure BizTalk Service Bridge you can rely on using the BizTalk Service...
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Blog Post: BizTalk 2009 – Error Enlisting Send Port – “Exception from...
It’s the second time that I have encountered this obscure error in BizTalk 2009, when attempting to enlist a send port after importing bindings originally exported via the admin console: Both times...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #26: Test 100% of your code
Guarantee full code coverage by running Orchestration Profiler of tracking data of your load tests. When testing your BizTalk Applications it is important to guarantee all code is executed, even the...
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Blog Post: BizTalk Orchestration timeouts for request-response operations...
My current project requires an orchestration to be built that will call out to one or potentially many WCF Services through a sequential loop, the specific services to be called on within the loop...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #27: Implement a Enterprise Service Bus using...
Use ESB Toolkit to implement a dynamic self-adapting solution. It enables the implementation of the ESB pattern within BizTalk by maximizing the re-use of services while at the same time maintaining...
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Blog Post: A nice piece of recursive SQL – Split a delimited string into...
I was trying to break a delimited string down today in to a separate record for each delimited value and came across this gem that uses recursion....
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server Tip #28: Avoid Orchestrations when possible
Use static routing, content based routing or itineraries to avoid using Orchestrations and use routing of failed messages for advance error handling since messaging doesn’t provide a rich error...
View ArticleBlog Post: SharePoint 2013 SP1 Released
Overview We’ve been hearing Q1 2014 as a release date for SharePoint 2013 SP1 for some time now, and most of us have been thinking we’d get that date at SharePoint Conference 2014. The conference...
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Blog Post: A simple example: how to call Python from Hive in HDInsight
IntroductionHadoop framework distributes code execution automatically in a multi node cluster. This code is also distributed against the dataset. Code development in Hadoop can be done in Java and one...
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Blog Post: How to deploy a Python module to Windows Azure HDInsight
IntroductionIn a previous post, I explained how to run Hive + Python in HDInsight (Hadoop as a service in Windows Azure). The sample showed a Python script using standard modules such as hashlib. In...
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