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SAP calling RFC hosted in BizTalk
If you have been following this blog you have most likely encountered a few blog posts related to SAP integration. I also wrote two chapters related to SAP integration in a BizTalk book last year. In...
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Testing your RFC hosted in BizTalk from SAP
In a recent blog post I discussed how you would host an RFC in BizTalk that SAP could call. I thought it would be helpful if I also included a post that would discuss how you can test your BizTalk...
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2012 Canadian Leadership Summit–Day 1
Every year Microsoft invites some key customers down to Redmond to see the latest and greatest technology. The Summit is geared towards IT Leadership so unfortunately this time around I will not get...
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2012 Canadian Leadership Summit–Day 2
On day 2, the Summit contained breakout sessions that allowed us to dig into some of the topics that were introduced on the first day. More specifically we were able to dive into topics such as...
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Book Review: BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook by Steef-Jan Wiggers
Recently I have found myself with some time to review a book instead of writing one. This time around it was a BizTalk book written by fellow BizTalk MVP Steef-Jan Wiggers. Steef-Jan is no stranger in...
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BizTalk Book Release: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide
I received word from Packt Publishing today that our book has officially been published. This book has been around 10 months in the making so it is very rewarding to see this book released.The intent...
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Microsoft TechEd North America 2012–Day 1
KeynoteThe Keynote started off like a Keynote from another technology company. A DJ was spinning tunes and also showed off his new ‘turntable’ that runs on Windows technology and is all the rage these...
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Microsoft TechEd North America–Day 2
Day 2 KeynoteDay 2 opened with another Keynote this time led by Antoine Leblond. It did address some of my concerns with Day 1’s keynote. This time the focus was on Windows 8 and they did...
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Microsoft TechEd North America 2012-Day 3
An Overview of Managing Applications, Services, and Virtual Machines in Windows Azure - Karandeep AnandIn this session Karandeep walked us through the new portal. The new portal does not include...
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Application Integration Futures – The Road Map and what's next on Windows Azure
This presentation has hosted by Bala Sriram and Rajesh Ramamirtham Blog Update: I have added a conclusion where I have provided a summary and some of my thoughts on this release. Also, this session...
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Building Integration Solutions Using Microsoft BizTalk On-Premises and on...
Update: This session has now been posted to Channel 9 and you can view the video here. Feel free to post any comments at the bottom of this post. This was a follow up session to the Application...
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Microsoft TechEd North America 2012-Day 4
So this post is a little delayed due to all of the excitement around the BizTalk sessions. However the sessions were that good that I wanted to still publish the post.Azure Service Bus Solution...
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Exposing common service(s) to SAP and WCF clients
I have a scenario I am dealing with at work that involves exposing some common data to two different systems: SAP and a Custom ASP.Net Web App. Both of these applications will request BizTalk to fetch...
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Part 1: BizTalk + SignalR
For those unfamiliar with BizTalk, it is Microsoft’s premiere Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) platform. It is used to integrate disparate systems over a variety of protocols using a durable...
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Part 2: BizTalk + SignalR
In my previous post, we discussed some of the reasons why BizTalk and SignalR may complement themselves in some situations. I will now walk through the implementation of this OMS scenario.I am going...
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Win A Free Copy of Packt's Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Certification Guidebook
The author team is pleased to announce that we have teamed up with the publisher,Packt Publishing, and are organizing a give away. Three lucky winners stand a chance to win an e-copy of our book....
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Packt MCTS BizTalk certification e-copy winners
This is a follow-up post to the Win a e-copy of the Packt MCTS BizTalk certification book post. Thank-you to all that entered. I enjoyed reading why you were interested in pursuing certification. The...
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BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 1
Back in June 2012, I had the opportunity to attend TechEd North America. At this event the BizTalk team gave us a glimpse into the next version of BizTalk and went over the Product Road map. You can...
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BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 2 Brokered Message...
In my last post I provided a walkthrough that allows you to send a typed Brokered Message from a Console application to a Service Bus Queue, have BizTalk retrieve this message and then write it to...
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BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 3 Sending message to...
This is the third post in a series where I discuss integrating BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP with the Azure Service Bus. In Part 1 I discussed BizTalk receiving a message from a Service Bus Queue. In Part 2 I...
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