Posts Tagged ‘BizTalk’

Hyper-V – Reducing the cost of your BizTalk 2009 farm – really?

Interesting post on Nick Happleston’s blog entitled: Hyper-V Dramatically Lowers the Price Point for BizTalk 2009 which talks about how Microsoft’s virtualisation technology enables enterprises to deploy BizTalk in a cheaper configuration. It makes reference to Chris Romp’s blog entry BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide, but applies the same principles...

Announcing BizTalk Server R3

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...

BizTalk 2006 R2 Released

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...

Microsoft New Technologies

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...

BizTalk Server 2006 – Auto-construction Issue

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...

BizTalk 2006 released to manufactue

Latest news: BizTalk 2006 has been released to manufacture: Microsoft Significantly Enhances Business Process Management Capabilities With BizTalk Server 2006: Customers embrace the ease of use of BizTalk Server 2006 to automate core business processes and integrate...

Where’s adm_OtherBackupDatabases then ?

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:...

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