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Stephen W. Thomas
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I was asked to present at the BizTalk Users Group in Sweden on June 4th. I presented on the new enhancements to the Windows Application Server role known as Dublin. The two sessions are now online on...
I've put together a series of First Look blog posts covering Oslo, Dublin, and Workflow 4.0. These posts include several screen shots of the new Microsoft Technologies and gives you a high level ove...
To help get everyone up to speed on the new Microsoft Offerings, Ive put together over an hour of first look videos to help show the new features and walk though the new UI's. The following videos a...
Ive put together a new BizTalk Tool available for download on BizTalkGurus.com. This tool will do the following: - Create Hosts - Create Host Instances - Assign Adapters to the new Hosts This t...
As many of you probably know by now, Microsoft has announced the next release in the BizTalk Server Family. This release will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. I for one am excited for this release, ...
Recently I ran into the following error when import a large Catalog into Commerce Server using both the Catalog Manager and the BizTalk Server Commerce Server Catalog Adapter. "The import failed bec...
I've posted some points to consider and common error message when working with the new BizTalk WCF Adapters on Windows XP. You can view the details here. New Blog Address: http://www.biztalkgurus...
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BizTalk 2006 R2 is now availableon TechNet. It's the free trial versionand I'm guessing it's good for 120 days. Download is here:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738059.aspx Also available is the...
I have uploaded slides and demos I presented at Tech Ed if anyone is interested in taking a look at them. I presented this last month atin Orlando. The demos show Dynamic Mapping, Self-Correlation Por...
Just wanted put in a plug for me firstbreak out session called Advanced Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 Concepts. It's SOA312 and it is on Thursday at 2:45 PM. The abstract is: "Business processes are a ...
I just noticed that the Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book is now available on Amazon.com. I haven't had a chance to look atit yet, but the outline, comments, and blog posts all look very good.
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I have put together a short video that walks through how simple it is to expose a simple Orchestration as a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services. This video uses the BasicHTTP Binding and ...
I have uploaded an update to the BizTalkGurus.com BizTalk Bloggers OPML file. This update adds 6 new BizTalk related blogs and brings the total to 97. You can download the OPML file ...
The deployment story in BizTalk Server 2006 is greatly improved over that of 2004. A typical deployment in BizTalk Server 2006 goes something like this: 1. Export the MSI using BizTalk Administr...
Another BizTalk 2006 book is now available on Amazon.com. Pro BizTalk 2006 by George Dunphy and Ahmer Metwally is described as a high-end resource based on feedback from developers.&nb...
As you know, a change was made to how custom pipelines components behave in BizTalk Server 2006. Now they can be placed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) as well as in the \Pipeline Compon...
BizTalk Server books are in short supply. And finding one that really helps solve real world problems is event harder to find. A new BizTalk book is now available. It's called BizT...
BizTalk Server 2006 makes it simple to add environment specific binding files to an Application. By adding environment specific binding files to an Application, you can easily select a...
Are you tired of having to go into the BizTalk Admin tool to terminate any suspended Orchestration instance before you want to redeploy? Scripting this task is simple using WMI. Just create a file cal...
Working with .net helper classes in BizTalk Server is a common occurance.
It can sometimes be easy to forget to GAC the latest version of the code when you go to test the solution on you...
Recently I was testing a BizTalk map inside Visual Studios. The input schema was auto generated using the SQL Adapter and the output was a simple text file. I was using a sample file provi...
This was a question (paraphrased) on the BizTalkGurus.com Forum: “How can I take email attachments and put them as is into a folder?”
When using the POP3 Receive Adapter, you have t...
MSBuild is the new build platform for Visual Studios. It allows great flexibility, customization (through creating custom Tasks), and integration with unit tests.
While MSBuild doesn̵...
AppDev Training is offering a free CD Training Class!
They have many great courses to pick from including a new Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 course called “Exploring BizTalk Serve...
Recently I have been working a lot with BizUnit 2.0 (Available on GotDotNet). This framework provides an easy and customizable way to unit test your end to end BizTalk solutions. I’l...
SQL Server 2005 offers many exciting new features. One of them is the support for Xml as a data type. On the surface, this looks great since BizTalk likes Xml. But, we come to learn ...
A few weeks ago Microsoft released an updated version of the documentation for BizTalk 2006.
You can download the updated docs here.
The new content has some really good stuff including...
First off, it has been a long time since I’ve last blogged. I have been very busy working on some other endeavors and I was on vacations for a few weeks. I am now working on some new...
I just wanted to help get the word out about the BizTalk User Group in Bangalore India. It was set up and ran by MVP Lakshmi Murthy
It looks like she has a lot of great things planned inc...
Wow, the guys at Two Connect have been very busy. They have released three new adapters for BizTalk Server 2006.
They are:
SalesForce.com (integrated with them in the past through...
Carlos Medina has created a functoid that can be used to extract context values from a message inside a map!
This is a very common problems and this approach is something I didn’t reall...
In a past edition of The BizTalker, I talked about how easy it is to use custom XSLT inside the BizTalk Mapper to sort data. Sorting data inside the map can be doing using inline XSLT like this:...
It’s a great day in world of BizTalk!
BizTalk Server 2006 is now available for download on the MSDN Subscribers Download site!
Also available are the SWIFT, RosettaNet, HL7, and HI...
Find yourself running the Rules Engine Deployment Wizard over and over again to export and import policies and vocabularies? Looking for a simple push button approach to move a full configuratio...
You probably know about untyped messages inside an Orchestration (that is, messages treated as Xml Documents rather than typed schema). Wouldn’t it be nice to have an untyped web service t...
Creating an Untyped Web Service will allow you to easily submit Xml Documents into BizTalk through the web service. Make sure you check out my previous post on this topic.
Create t...
These three topics could be entire blog posts on there own. In this case, I’ll briefly cover all three and show how to use them all together.
Start Orchestration – This shape ...
Recently I have been working a lot with the BizTalk Rules Engine (BRE) that comes along with Biztalk Server 2004.
Rather than the more common approach of using the BRE inside a BizTalk O...
Over the course of the past few weeks, I found several different ways to completely break the Business Rules Engine. The common error I received is “Failed to Load”. I received...
Over the course of the past few weeks, I found several different ways to completely break the Business Rules Engine.
The common error I received is “Failed to Load”. I receive...
I guess I was sleeping and forgot to post the answers to the BizTalk Interview Questions from a few posts ago. No worries though, Gustavo Echeverry went thought and answered them complete with referen...
Today I ran into a strange problem. Visual Studios would not launch! No matter what I did, it was totally dead.
I had remove Visual Studios 2005 Beta 2 a few weeks ago and upgraded ...
Wow, it has been some time now since I last blogged. I would like to say I have been super busy with tons of project work. But, actually I have been on vacation most of the time.
From time to ti...
The Beta 2 build of BizTalk Server 2006 is now available on Beta Place.
This also includes a separate download for the Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications, also in Bet...
The Beta 2 build of BizTalk Server 2006 is now available on Beta Place.
This also includes a separate download for the Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications, also in Bet...
Well, after about 10 tries on a freshly built Windows XP SP2 laptop I was finally able to get the CTP build of BizTalk Server 2006 installed and configured. I had installed it before with no pro...
Well, after about 10 tries on a freshly built Windows XP SP2 laptop I was finally able to get the CTP build of BizTalk Server 2006 installed and configured. I had installed it before with no pro...
Well, after about 10 tries on a freshly built Windows XP SP2 laptop I was finally able to get the CTP build of BizTalk Server 2006 installed and configured. I had installed it before with no pro...
Today marked the official launch of Biztalk Server 2006, SQL Server 2005, and Visual Studios 2005.
On top of getting free version of SQL 2005 and Visual Studios 2005 at the launch event, Micro...
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