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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 [...]

BizTalk updated - Adapter for WSE v2.0 and documentation update

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

The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Web Services Enhancement (WSE) v2.0 has just been released, claiming to support the next generation of Web Services promising security, reliability, transaction, and other abilities. WSE is the first step in series of web service enhancements from Microsoft.
The Microsoft BizTalk Adaptor for WSE 2.0 enables BizTalk to securely communicate through [...]

Developing E-Business Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004

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

BizTalk 2004 Certification - details here

BizTalk 2004 Powertoys

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 4th Feb, 2005

From Luke’s blog

Get your BizTalk PowerToys now! Erik
Leaseburg, a consultant with Microsoft Premier Services for the past five years
and an expert in BizTalk Server, has
collected the best PowerToys on the Web! Here
they are!

There’s also a webcast showing
off the toys..

BizTalk 2004 SP1

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 27th Jan, 2005

BizTalk 2004 Service Pack 1 has finally gone live.

 BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 1 addresses a variety
of customer scenarios and contains a collection of hotfixes, security fixes and fixes
for performance and stress.  Microsoft recommends that all BizTalk Server 2004
customers deploy SP1 across all editions of BizTalk Server to ensure their implementations
are up to date.

Grab
it here.

Migrating from BizTalk 2002 to BizTalk 2004

Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 23rd Jan, 2005

Microsoft have just released the BizTalk
Server Adapter Migration Toolkit which allows the reuse of BizTalk 2002 custom
computers (AICs preprocessors) in BizTalk 2004. Here’s an overview:

AMT is designed to simplify migration of BizTalk 2002 solutions to BizTalk 2004 by
providing three key pieces:
– The generation of wrappers for BizTalk 2002 Application Integration Components
(AICs) so that they can [...]

Pathfinder and beyond ..

Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 16th Jan, 2005

So what comes after BizTalk 2004 .. Mary Jo Foley reports ..

BizTalk in an SOA.

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 17th Dec, 2004

Great article by Paul on how BizTalk fits in a Service Oriented world.

BizTalk 2006 news

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 17th Dec, 2004

Some BizTalk news, Pathfinder has been officially christened: BizTalk Server 2006

“The fourth release of BizTalk Server will build on the success of BizTalk Server
2004 and offer enhancements for comprehensive management and operations as well as
innovations to further empower business users. In addition, this product will provide
deeper integration with the Windows Server System including support for: [...]

BizTalk 2004 Service Pack

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 20th Nov, 2004

Paul just told me that the BizTalk
2004 Service Pack 1 is scheduled for December 11th. It should be interesting,
because besides fixing a number of bugs, it apparently contains some design changes
to the way BizTalk works. Should be interesting .. especially for people with systems
in production.

Now Paul, what about getting
some blog action going ?

BizTalk Server 2004 SP 1 .. heading your way!!

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 19th Nov, 2004

Looks like BizTalk Server SP1 is on it’s way …

We made it to the release candidate stage for BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 last week so
we are now in the EAP customer testing phase. If all goes well it will release late
this year, otherwise very early next year.  SP1 will be a pretty important milestone
for [...]

November edition of the Bloggers Guide to BizTalk

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 4th Nov, 2004

Alan Smith has released the November
edition of the Blogger’s
Guide to BizTalk!

Understanding BPM servers

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 2nd Nov, 2004

Some more bedtime reading from David Chappell ..

I’ve argued elsewhere that the move to SOA is sparking the emergence of a new kind of software platform. Exemplified by products like IBM™s WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, BEA™s WebLogic Process Edition, and Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2004, the primary goal of this platform style is to support [...]

Playing with the WSE adapter

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 2nd Nov, 2004

Found this on ScottWoo’s blog .. very interesting stuff, but I must admit, I haven’t gone anywhere near the WSE adapter yet.

As Jesús (UDDI wizard developer of competition fame) figured out there are a
bunch of cool things you can do with the WSE adapter.  His article here shows
you how to use WS-Addressing dynamically with BizTalk [...]

Multiple BizTalk Environments - One Administration Box

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 1st Nov, 2004

One of the problems with the current version of BizTalk is
that some of the administration tools are designed to work only within the BizTalk
group the machine is configured to be in. This is fine if you only plan to have one
group, but gets messy if you don’t want to dedicate an administration box to each
BizTalk [...]