BizTalk Server

51 of 989 | Determine which version of BizTalk Server is installed in our machine!!! - How to determine what version of biztalk server is installed in our machine.   Steps:   1.From RegEdit, navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0 key.   2.Check the ProductVersion key and note the version number.   3.Map the version number from your key to the table below: 3.0.4902.0 BizTalk Server 2004 3.0.6070.0 BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 3.0.7405.0 BizTalk Server 2004 SP2 3.5.1602.0 BizTalk Server 2006 3.6.1404.0 BizTalk Server 2006 R2   More information you can get from kent weare blog.   ...

52 of 989 | Implementer BizTalk Server Training Resources - .style1 { color: white; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; background: #FFC000; } .style2 { color: white; font-size: 11.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px......

53 of 989 | Sales BizTalk Server Training Resources - .style1 { color: white; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; background: #FFC000; } .style2 { color: white; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1px; ......

54 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 Misunderstood? - My buddy Lucas wrote up a thoughtful piece in which he points out some flaws in Zapthink’s opinion on BizTalk Server 2009 and its impact on Microsoft’s SOA strategy.  It’s a good read if you need a refresher on BizTalk’s history and compatibility with SOA principles.  As yes, SOA still matters regardless of the recent chatter about the death of SOA  (Side rant: If you bought a set of products thinking that you were “doing SOA” and your subsequent SOA projects were failures, then you may have missed the point in the first place.  Whether it’s REST, SOA, BPM, etc, it’s the principles that matter, not the specific toolset that will dictate your long term success). If you don’t subscribe to Luc......

55 of 989 | I will be speaking at the Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference - .style1 { border-width: 0px; }  I will be speaking at the 2009 Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference in Redmond, WA. I have two presentations for this conference.  For my first presentation, I will be co-presenting on 'Application Lifecycle Management Experience for BizTalk Server 2009 Developers' with Vinay Ahuja and Manoj Agarwal. For my second presentation, I will be co-presenting on 'Implementing an Internet Service Bus with Agent Design Patterns on a Windows Azure Services Platform' with Danny Garber. If you are going to be there stop by and say hello.The following week I will be presenting two topics at our internal conference so it is shaping up to be a very busy new y......

56 of 989 | PipelineTesting vs TestablePipeline - I recently wrote an entry describing in general terms the new Unit Testing features in the BizTalk Server 2009 beta. However, I didn’t focus much on the functionality available for testing pipelines and how it related to my own PipelineTesting library. The BTS09 testing features work by having compiled pipelines derive from the new TestableReceivePipeline and TestableSendPipeline classes, which define a TestPipeline() method for invoking the pipelines with one or more files as input documents and the necessary schemas (as XSD files on disk). Here’s the canonical sample of how it is used in the documentation: [TestMethod]pu......

57 of 989 | Viewing tracking and archived data in BizTalk Server 2009 (beta) - There have been some great posts so far on the new features included in BizTalk Server 2009 beta. For example: Richard Seroter’s overview of new features, Michael Stephenson’s BizTalk Testing Guide on 2009,  Steef-Jan Wiggers’s building a sandbox...(read more)...

58 of 989 | MSDN Webcast - BizTalk Server 2006???? BizTalk??????????...(read more)...

59 of 989 | The First "Oslo" Training Course! - Pluralsight has a two-day course of "Oslo" available on 3/30 in Kirkland: Since the release of .NET 3.0, Microsoft has been actively engaged in an internal initiative to unify their services and modeling technologies. The result is a new modeling platform -- codename "Oslo". To summarize, "Oslo" makes it possible to move from a world where models describe the application to a world where models are the application. The technology to deliver this new set of capabilities will be delivered through future versions of BizTalk Server, System Center, Visual Studio, .NET Services and the .NET Framework. Come get a "first look" at this ambitious effort and see what's available today! Enjoy....

60 of 989 | Defining real-time aggregations with BizTalk Server 2009 / Excel 2007 - If you're using Excel 2007 to define your BAM activities and views, you may up spending some time trying to figure out what happened to the "mark pivot table as real time aggregation (RTA)" button. It's there, but unless you're used to working with it, it can be a little subtle to notice. At the time this was written, the relevant documentation only shows an Office 2003 screen shot, so I thought I'd do a post. In the toolbar, press the Add-in button, and you'll see what's shown below. The arrow is pointing at the RTA button, and it is pressed in this screen shot, indicating the pivot table is RTA.     And, along those same lines, if you're not seeing the BAM add-in, then press the to......

61 of 989 | Defining real-time aggregations with BizTalk Server 2009 / Excel 2007 - If you're using Excel 2007 to define your BAM activities and views, you may up spending some time trying to figure out what happened to the "mark pivot table as real time aggregation (RTA)" button. It's there, but unless you're used to working with it, it can be a little subtle to notice. At the time this was written, the relevant documentation only shows an Office 2003 screen shot, so I thought I'd do a post. In the toolbar, press the Add-in button, and you'll see what's shown below. The arrow is pointing at the RTA button, and it is pressed in this screen shot, indicating the pivot table is RTA.     And, along those same lines, if you're not seeing the BAM add-in, then press the to......

62 of 989 | Deadlock occurring between bts_InsertTrackingData and TDDS_GetTrackingRecord - Recently, I saw an issue where we were observing deadlocks between the stored procedures 'bts_InsertTrackingData' and 'TDDS_GetTrackingRecord' and this happens when there is a huge load for BizTalk to process. What we found that Tracking was enabled on multiple hosts. We disabled tracking on hosts such that we have only one tracking host and this resolved our issue. Pretty easy...This is what we always suggest to our customer to have a dedicated tracking host on production systems and especially where we expect high load as there it is expected that lot of tracking data will be generated. Using a dedicated tracking host also allows you to stop other BizTalk hosts without interfering with ......

63 of 989 | 2008 coming to a close.....so Just how is BizTalk doing out there??? Gartner Reports - I recently came across a Gartner report talking about all things to do with 'App Integration with Back End Systems' (in a nutshell... the report goes into detail) The end result of several pages within this report is a graph (we like graphs :) showing Microsoft as a leader with a high ability to execute. The Microsoft Technologies that fell under the microscope here are: BizTalk Server Windows Communication Foundation SQL Service Broker SQL Integration Services Team Foundation Suite Oslo + Azure The graph looks as follows (snipped from the report):   Get the whole report HERE ...

64 of 989 | BizTalk Server in Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects - Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects and BizTalk Server is in leader quadrant. This is great news for Microsoft and our Customers. Back-end application integration technology providers continue to consolidate as users expand and increase the complexity and sophistication of their service-oriented-architecture-driven and software-as-a-service-driven integration requirements. Additionally the report highlights strengths of BizTalk Server as Brand recognition, global reach, mind share and huge installed base of products that are leveraged for BizTalk Server sales. BizTalk Server is an identified part of ......

65 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 MSBuild Tasks - I’ve been looking around the new project system introduced in the BizTalk Server 2009 beta. As you might have heard before, it’s now based on MSBuild. This is an extremely welcome change from the obscure compilation model in previous BizTalk versions...(read more)...

66 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 MSBuild Tasks - I’ve been looking around the new project system introduced in the BizTalk Server 2009 beta. As you might have heard before, it’s now based on MSBuild. This is an extremely welcome change from the obscure compilation model in previous BizTalk versions that caused so much frustration. BizTalk Projects now look much like regular C# projects (they even have the same icon in solution explorer) but they can contain BizTalk artifacts like schemas, orchestrations, maps and pipelines. Opening up the .btproj file reveals some of the differences and custom MSBuild tasks used by the new BizTalk project system. Two things are initially important to mark a......

67 of 989 | Microsoft BizSpark – ????? ????????? ??? ???, ??? ?????? ?????? ?? ??????????? ????????? ??? ??????????? ???????? ???????? - BizSpark ??? ????????????? ?????????, ??????????????? ?????????? ?????????-????????????? ?? ? ??????? 3 ??? ????? ????????? ???????????: ?????? ? ??????????? ???????? ??? ???????, ?????????? ? ????????????. ??????????????? ???????? ??  Expression Studio (1 ????????), Visual Studio Team System c MSDN Premium ? Team Foundation Server (??????????? ??????) ?? ??? ??????? ?????????? ???????? ?? ???????????? ????????????? ??? ?????????? ? ???? ???????? ??????? ???? SaaS ? ????????-????????, ????????? ?? ???? ???????????? ???????????.  ??????????????? ???????? ??  Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Systems Center, BizTalk Server. ????????? ???????????????......

68 of 989 | PipelineTesting and BizTalk 2009 - Now that the a public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 is out, I thought I’d download it and try building and testing PipelineTesting on the new release. After downloading and installing the beta, I proceeded to import the existing Visual Studio 2005 project file into Visual Studio 2008 with the new BizTalk project system (a huge improvement over the old one, if I may say so [1]). The import worked just fine overall. The only change I had to make was remove the reference to PipelineObjects.dll from the projects and add it again with the new version in BizTalk 2009. The new version seems to be slightly different than the one in R2 (it’s 3KB......

69 of 989 | PipelineTesting and BizTalk 2009 - Now that the a public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 is out, I thought I’d download it and try building and testing PipelineTesting on the new release. After downloading and installing the beta, I proceeded to import the existing Visual Studio 2005...(read more)...

70 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 Beta e BizTalk RFID Mobile - No dia 8 de Dezembro foram anunciados o lançamento de: • Disponibilidade geral do BizTalk RFID Mobile e BizTalk RFID Standards Pack, • Beta pública do BizTalk Server 2009, • Actualização do Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance. Para mais informação sobre o BizTalk Server aceda ao site. ...

71 of 989 | I'm in .iso installation hell - I've been installing a new VPC with Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and BizTalk Server 2009. I've never had so much trouble installing from .iso files. It seems to work 1 out of 5 times, or less. Even when you try the same file...(read more)...

72 of 989 | Auckland Connected User Group Meeting - New Capabilities of BizTalk 2009 with Thiago Almeida - Hi everyone, The next Auckland Connected Systems User Group meeting will be held on Thursday, the 22nd of January, 6pm, at Datacom – 210 Federal Street, Auckland CBD. Yours truly, Thiago Almeida, will be presenting on the new capabilities of BizTalk Server...(read more)...

73 of 989 | Biztalk Server AS2 certificates - Astute readers might have noticed I have switched to a more narrow skin named  'Leafy skin'. That, of course, is not a coincidence. This technically lightweight blog posting, apart from its subject, also serves a hidden agenda:  scraping the dust of my rusty old blog. Thanks to this updated skin and by ensuring the first post showing up is dated from 2008, it is my goal to mislead many of you who never take the time to scroll down and check the date of the post just underneath. line feed, line feed, line feed, give it up. To the subject of the day. Find a friend that has switched to the white side. He might be able to help you create a self signed certificate with his......

74 of 989 | BizTalk and TFS document - The Developing Integration Solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 and Team Foundation Server document was just announced. We use TFS internally but are really only amateur users at best so it'll be interesting to read the advice in this document. ...

75 of 989 | Case Study: RiteCare Pharmacy cuts order turnaround time in half with BizTalk RFID Mobile Solution - Our first BizTalk RFID mobile case study went live recently. Following is snapshot and link to detailed case study. With 10 stores in India and plans for dozens more, RiteCare Pharmacy (India) wanted to make its warehouse operations more efficient before launching its next growth phase. As part of that process, RiteCare wanted to reduce the time required to fulfill store orders, increase order accuracy, reduce warehouse space requirements, and make it easier for workers to locate products. To address those needs, the company chose the S3Edge RTVS™ solution suite for Warehouse Visibility that includes Microsoft® BizTalk® RFID Mobile and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2. T......

76 of 989 | Initial customer feedback on BizTalk Server 2009 - As most of you may know from a previous entry in this blog, the first beta release of BizTalk Server 2009 has been made publicly available. You can download it directly, after signing with a Live ID, from here. We also made available the first CTP of the BizTalk 2009 ESB Guidance in codeplex. A major theme of this release is the enhanced developer productivity and the significantly improved developer team experience. This was made possible through integration with Microsoft’s application life-cycle management (ALM) solution: Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. I wanted to share with you the exciting feedback from an early adopter. Gulf Coast Seal Ltd. took par......

77 of 989 | CS2007 Software Architecture Series Part 5: IT Professional & Business User Component Overview - Commerce Server provides a number of application tools on top of the Development Platform to aid in the deployment. These tools can be principally broken into two categories:•    IT Professional Tools – aimed at allowing technical users to manage the operational aspects of the Commerce Server deployment. •    Business User Tools – aimed at allowing non-technical business users to manage aspects of the Commerce Server deployment on a day-to-day basis without IT professional involvement. These are all described in detail in the remainder of this post, and comprise the remainder of the components included with Commerce Server 2007.   Business User ToolsC......

78 of 989 | Planning for BizTalk DR - In my current company, we have a fairly good DR story with our “Global” (UK based) BizTalk platform and it’s something that is regularly tested (successfully I might add :) ). We also have a smaller BizTalk deployment in the US which follows a different model but which was also proven successful this year for the first time. More on that in a bit.   The choice of DR model you adopt for BizTalk will depend on a number of factors: Criticality – how important is the information flowing through or orchestrated by BizTalk, either now or planned? Recovery Point Objective – Your RPO is dictated by how accurate/up to date your system needs to be when DR is invoked. Can you afford to lose the la......

79 of 989 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 5-12-2008 - Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 5th December 2008.  Key ones include: Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance • Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta • Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Eval VHD • System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Technical Library Solutions & Solution Development • Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide • WinHEC 2008 White Papers • MDAC Utility: Component Checker • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) SDK December 2008 Security, Policy & Compliance • Licensing Windows Server 2008 Termina......

80 of 989 | BizSpark – ?? ??? ?????????? ????????-????????????? - ?? ?????, ??? ?????? ????????, ???????? ???????? ??????? ?????? ? ???????? ?????????? ?????, ????????? ??????? ???? ????????, ???? ??????????? ??????, ???? ??????????? ???????, ???? ??????????? ????. ???? ?? ???? ???????? ? ?????, ??, ?????, ??? ????? ????? ????????? ????? ??????????? ???????? Microsoft ??? ?????????? ????????, ???????????? ??????????? ??. BizSpark – ??? ????????????? ?????????, ??????????????? ?????????? ?????????-????????????? ?? ? ??????? 3 ??? ????? ????????? ???????????: ?????? ? ???????????, ? ??? ?????: ???????? ??? ???????, ?????????? ? ????????????. ??????????????? ???????? ?? Expression Studio (1 ????????), Visual Studio Team System c MSDN Premium ? Team F......

81 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 beta Installation and documentation - Richard Seroter blog contains the steps of installing biztalk server 2009 beta. He also explains the features of this beta version. BizTalk Server 2009 Installation and configuration guides from microsoft are available. Link : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560434.aspx Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Help : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa548004.aspx BizTalk Server 2009 Help Document/CHM file also available to download. Link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125618 Elton Stoneman wrote nice blog entry titled : BizTalk Server 2009 Public Beta: First Look. Recommanded to have a look at this entry once. ...

82 of 989 | BizTalk mapper - Appending new records to existing (looping) records - Does BizTalk Server maps have patterns? What are patterns? Wikipedia states that it's a pattern if "...it happens 5 or more times..." and that a design pattern in computer science "...is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring...(read more)...

83 of 989 | So What’s ACTUALLY In The BizTalk 2009 Beta? - Yesterday I installed the latest public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 (the artist formerly known as BizTalk Server 2006 R3), and thought I’d share the latest visuals and features.  Note that you shouldn’t expect any particularly revolutionary...(read more)...

84 of 989 | BAM Alerts in BizTalk 2009 - I have just started setting up a BizTalk 2009 machine to start looking at the CTP and something I noticed in the installation guide kind of supported what I was saying the other day about BAM being misplaced.  We knew that SSNS was not part of SQL 2008, and as BizTalk documentation is saying use the old SQL 2005 component if you want BAM Alerts (see below).  I believe the roadmap for the features which SSNS provided are intended to eventually end up in SQL Reporting Services so this would seem to support that the future of BAM belongs in the SQL Server BI offering "To install SQL Notification Services If your BizTalk Server 2009 project uses BAM Alerts, you must install SQL Notifica......

85 of 989 | BizTalk RFID Mobile - Continuando con la innovacion y robustecimiento de la plataforma de Biztalk Server, Microsoft puso a disposicion el dia de hoy de Biztalk RFID Mobile, el anuncio se dio con ocasion del Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit, ademas se anuncio del Biztalk RFID Standards Pack, asi como de la Beta Publica de Biztalk Server 2009. Biztalk RFID Mobile se puso a disposicion hoy mismo y extiende todo el poder de Biztalk Server RFID a los dispositivos moviles que corren Windows Mobile y Windows CE. Adicionalmente Biztalk RFID Mobile brinda posibilidades de administracion de dispositivos y procesamiento fuera de linea, lo cual conlleva a la reduccion del TCO. Bizt......

86 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 and ESB Guidance 2.0 *PUBLIC BETA* now available - Yes folks, as announced by Microsoft this morning at the Gartner conference,the betas are now available for both BizTalk Server 2009 and ESB Guidance 2.0. I originally blogged about what's new in BizTalk Server 2009 here. Not much has been said publicly about ESB Guidance 2.0, so I will focus on that in this post. Version 2.0 is a solid advance and major new release, building on the prior successful foundation. One of the most exciting changes is the enhanced flexibility around itinerary assignment. In version 1.0 and the CTP before it, there was a strong focus on Web services as the on-ramp, and the responsibility for setting itinerary headers properly was pushed out to the clients cal......

87 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 and ESB Guidance 2.0 *PUBLIC BETA* now available - Yes folks, as announced by Microsoft this morning at the Gartner conference,the betas are now available for both BizTalk Server 2009 and ESB Guidance 2.0. I originally blogged about what's new in BizTalk Server 2009 here. Not much has been said publicly about ESB Guidance 2.0, so I will focus on that in this post. Version 2.0 is a solid advance and major new release, building on the prior successful foundation. One of the most exciting changes is the enhanced flexibility around itinerary assignment. In version 1.0 and the CTP before it, there was a strong focus on Web services as the on-ramp, and the responsibility for setting itinerary headers properly was pushed out to the clients cal......

88 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 beta and ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP are public! - Last night the good news of BizTalk Server 2009 beta being public received me, finally! Also the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP was released, with system requirements like Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1  :-) To be complete, I also noticed a new release of BizUnit 3.0 now with support for creating test cases via an object model and reading test cases from an Excel sheet. So how about that? A lot of cool BizTalk news! I know I have something to do the coming weeks....

89 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 CTP - Hi All, BizTalk Server 2009 represents the next release in Microsoft’s long-term strategy to enable the connected enterprise. BizTalk Server 2009 enhances enterprise connectivity with broad industry support of WS* protocols, the edge via Microsoft BizTalk RFID, and business partners though EDI. What’s new in BizTalk Server 2009? Simplify Interoperability · Support for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - take advantages of the latest developer tools · Support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 – full support of Hyper-V, and increased performance and scale Extend To The Edge · EDI - enhanced out of the box support for the most commonly used EDI schema and tradi......

90 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 Public Beta Evaluation Edition - Download now - Good news ... On Monday December 8th, 2008 Microsoft announced Public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 (https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218). What’s new in BizTalk Server 2009? Ø  Simplify Interoperability ü  Support for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - take advantages of the latest developer tools. ü  Support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 – full support of Hyper-V, and increased performance and scale. Ø  Extend To The Edge ü  EDI - enhanced out of the box support for the most commonly used EDI schema and trading partner management tools. ü  Simplify development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time busines......

91 of 989 | BTS 2009 Beta - The beta is now available for download! You can get it here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 ...

92 of 989 | FHS/FTS with no BHS/BTS segments - A friend recently asked if it was ABSOLUTELY necessary to have the BHS/BTS segments if batching was enabled. I asked some friends and the HL7 DASM demands those segments: [FHS] (file header segment) { [BHS] (batch header segment) { [MSH (zero or more...(read more)...

93 of 989 | Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Beta Released - The first beta of BizTalk Server 2009 has been released today, and it is available for download from the connect website. Release notes, the single server installation guide, and the 2009 accelerators are also available for download on that same page...(read more)...

94 of 989 | Presenting at BrizTalk - 16th December 2008 - I will be presenting at the Brisbane BizTalk Community (BrizTalk) meeting on the 16th of December the topics will be BizTalk Server 2009 & Windows Azure. for details on the meeting see: http://www.briztalk.org/Events/tabid/56/Default.aspx...(read more)...

95 of 989 | BizTalk 2009 Beta now on Connect - From the connect.microsoft.com Site: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2009 represents the next release in Microsoft’s long-term strategy to enable the connected enterprise. BizTalk Server 2009 enhances enterprise connectivity with broad industry support...(read more)...

96 of 989 | BizTalk 2009 Public Beta and ESB Guidance V2 CTP Available! - After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . In unison, the CTP of the ESB Guidance Toolkit v2 is...(read more)...

97 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 Beta and RFID Mobile GA - In September, we provided a few more details on BizTalk Server 2009 features and release timing.  Today we’re excited to report that we’re continuing to make progress toward a full release in the first half of 2009, and have additional news to share.   The first public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available here.   This is a feature complete release, and we encourage our customers and partners to begin testing and exploring today. We’ll also continue to tune the code base, focused on performance, reliability, etc.  Final release is on track for the first half of 2009, and as we stated earlier this year, we’ll release an update to BizTalk every two years goin......

98 of 989 | BizTalk Server 2009 CTP goes public - Finally. Ever since being told of a rough estimate of the date it was to be released I've been waiting for it to come. And now it has. Read the official word at Steve Martins blog . Get it here . ESB Guidance 2.0 is here . It took a while longer than...(read more)...

99 of 989 | Grab the BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Microsoft announced the public BizTalk 2009 beta today.  You can snag it from the Microsoft Connect site.  I’ve been running BizTalk 2009 on a VM since late summer, and while you don’t notice a whole lot of differences, there are some subtle things that you’ll notice.  Recall that the big ticket features are platform specific such as support for VS.NET 2008, Windows 2008 and SQL 2008.  However, you’ll also find the new UDDI services, better Visual Studio integration (e.g. Mapper debugging!), and some new queries in the Admin Console (i.e. historical data).  I admittedly haven’t spent too much time on the newest features, so I’ll look forward to what the community at large discovers. Update:......

100 of 989 | Resource availability for standard platforms (like BizTalk Server) is insufficient - The papers in Sweden reported last week that resources with expert level knowledge on standard platforms and systems are hard to come by. In summary it says that its an emerging trend in Sweden to use standard platforms, but the fact that resources are...(read more)...