Blog Post: BizTalk Innovation Day – London. 16th January 2013
We are really excited to announce all the arrangements for BizTalk Innovation Day – London is been finalized. The event will be sponsored by Microsoft, BizTalk360 and some of the consulting companies...
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Blog Post: Setting Up BizTalk Server 2013 Beta on a Windows Azure Virtual...
A few days ago BizTalk 2013 Beta was announced and released for download. The plan is to make this available as a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Image just like the CTP but it has not yet been...
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Blog Post: Exploring REST Capabilities of BizTalk Server 2013 (Part 1:...
The BizTalk Server 2013 beta is out there now and I thought I’d take a look at one of the key additions to the platform. In this current age of lightweight integration and IFTTT simplicity, one has to...
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Blog Post: My latest MSDN/TechNet Activities
Last couple of months I have written and edited a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki. The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community (like myself, Tord Glad Nordahl,...
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Blog Post: Call Rules designer bug fixed in BizTalk 2013
Published By: Bill ChesnutThere has been and off and on bug with the orchestration designer since BizTalk 2006, in BizTalk 2004 the call rules shape needed to be in an Atomic scope, but that...
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Blog Post: Azure: On the horizon….
Folks with the unforeseen skill from Christian Longstaff, we could be unveiling something great….. kicking around a few ideas and Christian’s talent for such things shone. As with all amazing shiny...
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Blog Post: SQL 2012: SP1 Released and Feature Pack SP1
Hi folks, I’m just blown away by all the goodies in these 2 releases 1) the SP1 2) the Feature Pack SP1 Both have some pretty big improvements, especially around the SharePoint 2013 <-> SQL...
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Blog Post: Forget Sinofski
Forget about Steven Sinofski's unexpected departure from Microsoft. The real news from Redmond is that, after approximately 72 years of utter stagnation, the latest version of Visio has been upgraded...
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Blog Post: Error encountered when combining MIME/SMIME decoder with EDI...
Some of my colleagues asked me to help them out with a really hairy problem today. Their project involved the receipt of EDIFact files by email. The emails were being saved on the file system as .eml...
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Blog Post: Blog admin of my companies blog
First of all, I would like to thank all of my regular reader and hope you've al enjoyed my blog posts for almost 2 years now. I already announced in one of my previous posts some time ago that I would...
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In the BizTalk toolbox, you have two standard pipeline components that can perform this XML validation. These components have a very different behavior. Let’s have a detailed look.
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Blog Post: BizTalk 2013 Beta: Viewing dependencies
In early November 2012 the Beta release from BizTalk 2013 has been released. That version number is interesting in itself, as the CTP was called BizTalk 2010 R2.One on the new functionalities in this...
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Blog Post: Using the ESB Toolkit 2.2 on BizTalk 2013 Beta
With BizTalk Server 2013 Beta, ESB Toolkit is now fully integrated with BizTalk Server. Also, the ESB Toolkit configuration experience is simplified to enable a quick setup. The installation and...
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Blog Post: October Images of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012...
I noticed today that the Platform Images for Windows Azure Virtual Machines has been updated to include a Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Image for October.The great news is I re-tested...
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Blog Post: Failed to add resource(s). Resource (…) is already in store and is...
One of my team members that is making some changes to a project that I started, called me saying that he was having problems in deploying the project. Whenever he tried to deploy the project he was...
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Blog Post: Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter – Part II
In my previous post I discussed sending messages to a Service Bus queue. These messages send to the queue are then picked up by the SB-Messaging Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP, which is running...
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Blog Post: Where’s my Sybase ODBC driver?
I am currently working with a customer that use Sybase (remember them?) Adaptive Server Enterprise, as their primary database environment. Sybase and Microsoft originally co-developed the early...
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Blog Post: Speaking About Enterprise Mobility Tomorrow at IASA South FL Meetup
My speaking schedule has gotten a bit crazy this last few months and I haven’t had any time to schedule any local presentations. Thanks to my good friend Dave Noderer , tomorrow I will be doing a...
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Blog Post: Exploring REST Capabilities of BizTalk Server 2013 (Part 2:...
In my previous post, I looked at how the BizTalk Server 2013 beta supports the receipt of messages through REST endpoints. In this post, I’ll show off a couple of scenarios for sending BizTalk messages...
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Blog Post: SP2013: Getting a Form Digest for Update REST calls
While on SharePoint 2013 training we came across all the different ways of calling SharePoint and it’s data through JavaScript, JQuery and all the bits. It was all looking good until we needed to...
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