Blog Post: Are you dealing with US customers? Learn more about W-8BEN
Image Credit: Calgary Reviews on flickr and reproduced under Creative Commons 2.0 W-8BEN was introduced to me when I joined BizTalk360. This form is used for all our US Sales for Taxation purpose. I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Deploying a “Hello World” App to the Free IronFoundry v2 Sandbox
I’ve been affiliated in some way with Iron Foundry since 2011. Back then, I wrote up an InfoQ.com article about this quirky open source project that added .NET support to the nascent Cloud Foundry PaaS...
View ArticleBlog Post: Low latency with BizTalk?
I get a few emails once every month regarding low latency scenarios in BizTalk, as we all know BizTalk is never stronger (faster) than the weakest (slowest) link. However there are a few Things you can...
View ArticleBlog Post: Hybrid Connections (Preview)
We're introducing Hybrid Connections, a cool and easy new way to build hybrid applications on Azure. Hybrid Connections are a feature of Azure BizTalk Services, enabling your Azure Website or Mobile...
View ArticleBlog Post: More BizTalk articles on the TechNet Wiki
About two and a half years ago I wrote a post on the TechNet Wiki blog about the BizTalk Server activity on the TechNet Wiki. Back then we (the TechNet Wiki) had about 40 articles on BizTalk Server....
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 version 7.2 Performance Improvements
In this article, I’ll take you through the different performance improvements that have gone into BizTalk360 Version 7.2. One of the key factors behind the success of any web application is the...
View ArticleBlog Post: What’s New in BizTalk Server 2013 R2?
Support for: • Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 SP1. • Microsoft Office Excel 2013 or 2010. • .NET Framework 4.5 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 • Visual Studio 2013 • SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft Azure API Management - Getting started
A general overview of the Microsoft Azure API Management that was recently released at MSTechEd North America on May 12th.
View ArticleBlog Post: News from Azure cloud
This morning we released a massive amount of enhancements to Microsoft Azure. Today’s new capabilities and announcements include: Virtual Machines: Integrated Security Extensions including Built-in...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk 2013 Development Edition on Image Gallery for MSDN Users
Great news for people working on Virtual Machines with BizTalk 2013 on Microsoft Azure.BizTalk Server 2013 Development Edition is now available as a pre-built image you can select inside the Image...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server 2013 R2 RTM
Microsoft announced today the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of BizTalk Server 2013 R2, with and expected General Availability (GA) in June.From the Microsoft Announcement: For over a decade, Microsoft...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server 2013 Developer Image in the Azure Virtual Machine...
Stephen W. Thomas has just told me that Microsoft has released the BizTalk 2013 Developer Image in the Azure Virtual Machine Gallery for MSDN subscribers, at first I could not see it, but it only show...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Developer edition available in Azure!
Oh joy! Finally, Microsoft has had the time to create a pre-setup image of BizTalk 2013 Developer edition in the Azure portal. If you’re like me, you often create a set of Azure VMs running BizTalk, up...
View ArticleBlog Post: ESB Toolkit Tip #4: Use the Itinerary Test Client and the out of...
How to create an itinerary is well documented but what is the best way to test your itinerary? In a production environment you normally have an On-Ramp that gets the itinerary from the Itinerary Store...
View ArticleBlog Post: IIS AppPool Identity SIDs
Since Windows Vista came out, a bunch of different sets of "virtual account"e; types have been added to the operating system. The most obvious one being Service accounts managed by the Service...
View ArticleBlog Post: Speaking at Connect 2014
On May 27th-29th, in San Francisco, MuleSoft is hosting one of the largest integration events of the year called Connect. There is an impressive list of speakers including:Greg Schott, CEO...
View ArticleBlog Post: Configuring BizTalk Server 2013 Developer Azure Gallery Image
Published by: Bill ChesnutOnce you have created a Azure IaaS machine using the BizTalk Server 2013 Developer Azure Gallery Image, there is still a bit off configuration that needs to be done:This is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Extension Method
hello everybody, Extension method are not well know but they are very powerfull. This article is not a tutorial with extension method but an inventory around it. When use it Extension method must be...
View ArticleBlog Post: WCF Error from Visual Studio Debugger: “An exception of type...
This error got me stumped for a bit… The solution was quite simple but caused a few further grey hairs so I will share here how I resolved this annoyance! I was hosting a WCF solution in Visual Studio...
View ArticleBlog Post: Experience visiting and working at Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad for a...
Microsoft IDC (India Development Center), Hyderabad is one of the important location for Microsoft, as far as I know even though Microsoft have offices pretty much in every major country in the world,...
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