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New Pluralsight Course – Amazon Web Services Databases in Depth – Now Live!
Today, Pluralsight released my 12th course. I’ve spent the last few months putting together a fun deep dive into three major database technologies from AWS: Amazon RDS (relational database), DynamoDB...
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Windows Azure Automation Error - user_realm_discovery_failed Solved
I was working with Windows Azure Automation using a MSDN account to create a run book that will run nightly to turn off all my running virtual machines. This is super easy and you area even provided a...
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New Pluralsight Course: Traveling and Loyalty Programs Best Practices
While my main passion in life is Integration with Microsoft Technologies, a close second is traveling. With traveling comes my “addiction” to earning airline miles, hotel points, and chasing...
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BizTalk Server tips and tricks for Administrators: How to back up RosettaNet,...
Have you had the time to think about what is some features like RosettaNet, ESB or UDDI have in common? Well, all of them have custom databases and all of them are optional features. But the most...
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BizTalk Server Learning Path for Pluralsight
I have been an author with Pluralsight for the past 3 years. Before I was an author I was always a huge fan and I found that for just $29 a month for unlimited access to all training courses is a...
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6 Reasons Why Working at the Office Is Much Better Than Working Remote
Conventional wisdom says that remote work is awesome and we should pity the poor slobs who drag themselves to an office every day. However, I’ve now switched from remote work to office work, and...
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SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2013 and Microsoft Azure (Second Edition) book
Finally a new BizTalk Server book it’s available and just in time for my vacations! No I will not work during my vacations but unlike the Caribbean where we can eat and then jump right away into the...
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Running BAM Portal in Internet Explorer 11: Enable Compatibility view
Sometimes websites don’t look like you expect them to. Images might not appear, menus might be out of place, and text could be jumbled together. This might be caused by a compatibility problem between...
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User experience running BAM Portal in different browsers
In my last post I wrote about BAM Portal running in Internet Explorer 11, the browser we normally have in the BizTalk Server machine. However BAM Portal can and should be remotely accessed by the users...
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BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Training on Pluralsight
A little over a year ago I released a new Pluralsight training course called “Intro to BizTalk Server 2013 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Toolkit”.This course is still getting a lot of views and the...
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Comparing Clouds: API Capabilities
API access is quickly becoming the most important aspect of any cloud platform. How easily can you automate activities using programmatic interfaces? What hooks do you have to connect on-premises apps...
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BizTalk just keeps retrying and never stops doing so
Yesterday we had some problems with a connection to an endpoint and it became clear the endpoint was less reliable as promised. When using a static sendport you would set RetryCount and RetryInterval...
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Returning to Integration Monday with a new session: “Real Case Scenarios...
I’m glad to be back, once again, to Integration Monday Events! The first time I presented a session about “BizTalk Server Tips & Tricks for Developers and Admins (Deep Dive)” (June 22, 2015), a...
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“Real Case Scenarios Where BizTalk NoS Ultimate Can Improve Our Efficiency”...
It was with great pleasure that I presented, last Monday – August 31, 2015 – my second presentation in the Integration Monday series. This time I was invited to talk about my personal experience about...
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“BizTalk Server Tips & Tricks for Developers and Admins (Deep Dive)” video...
Last Monday I presented my second session in the Integration Monday series (see my last post) and, as usually, I normally publish a post on my blog before the event – a way to help the organizers to...
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Send an Un-Serialized String to Azure Service Bus Queue or Topic
Published By: Bill Chesnut When I was doing some recent work with Azure Services Bus and the preview API App / Logic App, I ran into an issue with serialization of message content with the standard...
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What’s New in BizTalk 2013 Course has lots of Relevant Content for BizTalk...
I have revamped and updated my site: http://www.whats-new-in-biztalk-2013.com/ This site is dedicated to my course at Pluralsight with the same name. While this course was geared to BizTalk 2013, a...
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How To Convert a VMware vmkd Disk to a Hyper-V vhdx Disk
I have been using VMware off and on for years mostly to maintain environments for older version of BizTalk like BizTalk 2009 and BizTalk 2010. That said, I have been stuck using VMware version 9...
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WCF: Be careful with allowCookies=”true”
I always enjoy a good troubleshooting challenge, and recently my good friend and colleage Martin Jalaf came up with an interesting one. A customer was load testing a Web application. Like many others,...
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Sending Soap with Attachments (SwA) using BizTalk – Part 2
This is a continuation to my previous article. Create a WCF service which can send the SOAP message with attachment. 1. Create a standard wcf service ( I guess this shouldnt be an issue ) 2. Below is a...
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