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Announcing BizTalk Server R3

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 24th Apr, 2008

For all those out there still working in the Microsoft integration space, keep your eyes open for the next iteration of BizTalk Server 2006. I’ve just picked this up from Andy James’ Solidsoft blog:
Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be available in early 2009. [...]

BizTalk Server R2 and Beyond

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Aug, 2006

Microsoft are holding
a webcast to talk about R2 of BizTalk
2006 on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:30 AM - Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:30 AM
Pacific Time. If you’re into BizTalk, it’s a must-see. Here’s the blurb:

BizTalk 2006 Release 2 (R2) is due out in the first half of 2007, with early preview
code to be made available [...]

Where’s adm_OtherBackupDatabases then ?

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 9th Nov, 2005

Here’s an interesting BizTalk 2004 bug we came across today. Essentially, if you try to keep your BizTalk installation lean and choose not to install certain features, then the packaged backup jobs fail because of a missing table in the database. The actual error message in the event log reads:
Description: SQL Server Scheduled Job ‘Backup [...]

What’s new in BizTalk Server 2006

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 7th Oct, 2005

Came across a webcast called “What’s new in BizTalk Server 2006″ by Jeff Wierer. Here’s
the blurb:

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 is coming soon—are
you ready for it? BizTalk Server 2006 improves on its predecessor in all dimensions
of application-to-application, business-to-business, and business-process automation.
Learn about the enhancements BizTalk 2006 introduces in the runtime engine, including
support for in-order message processing, [...]

BizTalk 2006 FAQ

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 27th Aug, 2005

Been playing with BizTalk
2006? Doug Girard has posted the top 50 questions asked by the people who have
previewed the new BizTalk version.
Check them out here

Microsoft buys iWay adpaters

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 4th Aug, 2005

Microsoft has bought 8 of the iWay adapters for BizTalk and will be shipping a version for BizTalk 2006. More here

BizUnit 2.0 - Automated testing for BizTalk Solutions

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 18th Jul, 2005

Kevin Smith has just released v2.0 of BizUnit, an automated testing framework to enable rapid development of automated functional testing for BizTalk solutions. If you work with BizTalk, make sure to try it!

BizTalk 2004 HTTP Receive

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 28th Jun, 2005

Spent this morning helping Nigel find out why he couldn’t send an XML/HTTP message
to his BizTalk installation. Basically,
the trick is that the user the Application Pool hosting the BizTalk receive DLL (
BTSHTTPReceive.dll ) needs to be running under the identity of a user which is a member
of the local IIS_WPG group
AND must also be a [...]

Matt does BizTalk 2006

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 28th Jun, 2005

Matt Hall blogs about his first impressions of BizTalk 2006. Read
here

Looking to get BizTalk certified? Do it now!

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 19th May, 2005

Get certified - win cool prizes !!

The BizTalk Team is pleased to announce the availability of the updated and improved Exam 74-135: Developing E-Business Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004. The BizTalk Server exam covers all aspects of BizTalk Server from the installation of BizTalk Sever to designing, implementing and deploying a BizTalk Server solution.
- [...]

BizTalk Server and Indigo

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 6th May, 2005

If you’re working in the BizTalk space,
you really need to see the BizTalk
Server and Indigo episode on MSDN
TV. Scott Woodgate walks
through a great demo showing amongst other things:

The Indigo Adapter running in BizTalk 2004 (Reliable Messaging ROCKS!)

Using the Rules Engine as a Service Directory

Using Avalon to kick off a remote business process

Make sure you check
it [...]

Using the Business Rules Engine in BizTalk 2004

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 24th Mar, 2005

As Andy keeps telling me; there’s more to the Business Rules Engine than meets the eye. I must admit, I was sceptical at first; thinking this was just a bolt-on someone dreamt up at the last minute; but there’s some real power under the hood here; particuarly in the ability to define facts, vocabulary, definitions [...]

Clean up your BizTalk Messagebox

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 10th Mar, 2005

Some
gold here. Posting by Lee on the proper way to clean up the BizTalk Messagebox,
using msgbox_cleanup_logic.sql that comes with SP1. Must read
for any BizTalk developer.

TechEd 2005 - Connected Systems Infrastructure

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 3rd Mar, 2005

Ohhh … TechEd 2005 has a Connected Systems Infrastructure track. This is defined as:
Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. New applications no longer live in single process or machine silos. [...]

BizTalk Adapter for MSMQ v2.0

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 16th Feb, 2005

The BizTalk
Adapter for MSMQ v2.0 has been released. here’s the blurb:

The BizTalk 2004 Adapter for MSMQ provides
support for sending and receiving messages using MSMQ 2.0 and 3.0, and takes advantage
of the new features in MSMQ 3.0. Major features of the adapter include support for:

MSMQ 2.0 and 3.0

Multi-threading option for faster performance

Guaranteed delivery when using transactional [...]