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 2006 R2 Released
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 14th Sep, 2007
After month of testing, it’s nice to see that Microsoft have finally pushed BizTalk 2006 R2 out to the world. Here’s the blurb:
With the introduction of the fifth full version, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior releases to help organizations extend core process management technologies even [...]
Microsoft New Technologies
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 28th Jul, 2007
I popped by Andy James’ blog today (it has been ages since I’ve been there) and picked up some good links to some new stuff hitting the street (Andy is good like that). Here’s some honey:
BizTalk Architects group on FaceBook
BizTalk HotRod Magazine Issue 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
BizTalk Labs
Pub/Sub with low latency
Thanks Andy, loads to [...]
BizTalk Server 2006 - Auto-construction Issue
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 5th Feb, 2007
Excellent post by my colleague Charles entitled: BizTalk Server 2006: Auto-Construction of Orchestration Variables Considered Harmful. It talks about a problem he had with the way BizTalk auto-constructs variables that you use in your orchestration and how this caught him unawares. The main problem revolved around the fact that he was looking for a [...]
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 [...]
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!
Integrating the Enterprise Library with BizTalk 2004
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 27th May, 2005
Was doing some research for Nigel who was trying to use the Enterprise Library Logging Application Block in BizTalk 2004 and ran into problems when Enterprise Library needed to be strongly named.
I first came across an excellent blog entry by Tom Hollander on how to manage Enterprise Library in your organisation.
Came across this blog entry [...]
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.
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BizTalk Reading Material
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 6th Apr, 2005
Some BizTalk Reading from Scott Woodgate’s blog ..
..Below are 5 new whitepapers on various aspects of the product. I’d like to personally thank all the whitepaper authors below. These papers are still “beta” so feel free to provide feedback in the comments and we will address what is required. The whitepapers are hosted [...]
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 [...]
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 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
Pathfinder and beyond ..
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 16th Jan, 2005
So what comes after BizTalk 2004 .. Mary Jo Foley reports ..
