Blog Post: Using the BRE Pipeline Framework to assess and update XML message...
One of the new features that was made available with v1.4.0 of the BRE Pipeline Framework (see this post for a summary of new features) was the ability to make use of XML based vocabulary definitions...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Inline XSLT to Populate an Any Element
I have been working recently with schemas containing <Any> elements. Luckily I don’t need to manipulate the <Any> contents much: to do so, the standard BizTalk functoids available in the...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Summit 2014 London – The story
2013 was a big year for us in term of events: BizTalk Summit 2013 London, Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day, Bouvet Innovation Day and finally BizTalk Innovation Day Italy… but we promise that 2014 would...
View ArticleBlog Post: Web.Config Transforms Per Build
Since the introduction of .Net 4.0, Visual Studio 2012 has supported Web.Config transforms. That is you can publish a Web.Config file per solution configuration in Visual Studio. This is great if you...
View ArticleBlog Post: start a Pig + Jython job in HDInsight thru WebHCat
You can also use HDInsight with Hive + Python. The drawback of the latter is that you use streaming between Hive and Python. In Hadoop streaming is just a way to call stdin/stdout inter process...
View ArticleBlog Post: Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – Lisboa | March 29 | Windows Azure...
For the BizTalk Server and Windows Azure Portuguese Community, will be held on March 29, 2014 between 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at Microsoft Portugal in Lisbon O que é o...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service...
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. WABS is a cloud integration...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using SnapLogic to Link (Cloud) Apps
I like being exposed to new technologies, so I reached out to the folks at SnapLogic and asked to take their platform for a spin. SnapLogic is part of this new class of “integration platform as a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – My learnings 2
I was going to post this a couple of weeks ago but Jan Wiggers has answered my questions in a very informative post. I must remember to follows Jan’s steps in IIS. ———– After provisioning my BizTalk...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to install BTSG NoS Addin for Visual Studio 2012
Don’t be fooled because I am the first to talk about this addin, BTSG NoS Addin is a creation of my dear friend Nino Crudele. Who is Nino Crudele? I think if you didn’t knew who was Nino, after his...
View ArticleBlog Post: Code Camp Session: Building Hybrid Solutions with Microsoft Azure
Great day was had by all and after some issues with ‘guest wifi’ at the start of my presentation we were off. Top questions and a good vibe filled the room. As promised – here’s my slides I used and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Sysprep BizTalk Server
The System Preparation (Sysprep) tool prepares an installation of Windows for duplication, also called imaging, and enables you to capture a customized Windows image, or “golden image”, that can be...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Adapter Service Installation
In an article I recently published on TechNet Wiki I covered the installation steps required for the BizTalk Adapter Service (February 2014 Update). The BizTalk Adapter Service facilitates...
View ArticleBlog Post: Few Thoughts on the ESB Tookit and an Error – “The ‘ServiceType’...
I have recently been experimenting with the ESB Toolkit (version 2.2 that ships with BizTalk 2013) and I think it is a good way to expedite loosely coupled BizTalk solutions, dynamically configurable...
View ArticleBlog Post: MBV 13.870 is available - updated rules, dashboard and sizable UI.
Hello,sorry for my silence, I recognized I have not updated MBV for a long time.In fact I update it frequently for our internal usage at Microsoft or for some specific customers scenarios that I meet...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Cloud is Here and Now
I recently heard a cloud presentation by James Staten and that is what inspired this post. Cloud is not the future, cloud is NOW! The first thing you need to know is the cloud is not the future, the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Powershell script to administer messages in BizTalk
The below script does everything from resume to terminate the suspended messages. It also allows you to get counts and save suspended messages into dedicated folders. # Script to save, resume and list...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk orchestration performance implications when using the call...
On one of my current projects I had quite a few requirements that required me to make some smart use of BizTalk orchestration capabilities. After some hard work I managed to stitch together an...
View ArticleBlog Post: two new tfs 2013 courses now available
Two exciting new courses added to our TFS 2013 curriculum QuickLearn Training is expanding its TFS Curriculum with two new courses being added to our range. With both the most up-to-date and...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 jointly organizes GWAB 2014 in Coimbatore, India
Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 2014 (#GWAB) is a free one-day training event, taking place on the 29th of March 2014 in 138 locations registered in 57 Countries, driven by local Windows Azure community...
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