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Packt Publishing reaches 1000th book milestone
Over the past couple years I have had the chance to work with Packt on two BizTalk titles:BizTalk: Line of Business Systems IntegrationMCTS: BizTalk 2010 Certification GuideDuring this time Packt has...
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BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 4 Sending Messages to...
Back again with Part 4 in this series. This time around we are going use BizTalk to send a message to an Azure Service Bus Topic using the new SB-Messaging Adapter.What is the difference between a...
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BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 5 Sending messages to...
What are Service Bus Sessions?Service Bus Sessions are actually a rather broad subject as there are a few different scenarios in which they can be used. At its simplest description I consider Service...
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BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP meet BizTalk 2013 Beta
Microsoft released some exciting news on Monday for people who live and breathe Middleware. They have released BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP’s successor: BizTalk 2013 Beta. The new name signifies a major...
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BizTalk 2013 Beta: Azure Service Bus Integration–Dynamic Sent Ports
I started writing this blog post before the Beta was announced and it was probably a good thing that I did not publish it as I now have something else to discuss. Microsoft has made an enhancement to...
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Windows Azure 1.8 SDK– Queue to Queue Transfers
I was recently watching an episode of the Cloud Cover show where Abhishek Lal was talking about some of the recent features that are available in SDK 1.8. One of the features that stood out for me was...
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WCF-SAP User account not in validity date
Recently, I have been working with a new organization and have been been building some interfaces that communicate with SAP. Over the Christmas break I continued to work on some of these interfaces....
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MSDTC Adventures: 'System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException'
I was configuring a new Development environment that consisted of a BizTalk Application Server and a Remote SQL Server. The BizTalk Installation went smoothly but the Configuration did not. I tend to...
View ArticleService Bus Notification Hubs – Part 1
This past week the Service Bus team at Microsoft rolled out a preview of their latest offering called Service Bus Notification Hubs. For those of those of you who keep an eye open for all things...
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Service Bus Notification Hubs–Part 2 Improving Customer Engagement
In my previous post I introduced Service Bus Notifications and explained why you may want to use it when sending Notifications to mobile devices. In this post I want to explore its use in a corporate...
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Service Bus Notification Hubs–Part 3 My Solution Overview
In my previous post I introduced the concept of Customer Power Outages and, at a high level, introduced how Outage Management Systems work. The key take away from that blog post is that important,...
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Service Bus Notification Hubs-Part 4 The Solution
It has been fun discovering Service Bus Notifications. I have received some good feedback over Twitter recently and have also shown my demo to some colleagues over the past week with some great...
View ArticleBizTalk 2013 has reached RTM and what it means for Customers
Microsoft has reached another important milestone with the release of their 8th version of BizTalk. This is the 8th release in 13 years!!! No major product in Microsoft has shipped that often so my...
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BizTalk Monitoring Whitepaper is now available
For the past month and half, in my spare time, I have been working on a whitepaper that compares and contrasts System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and BizTalk360. I have used both products...
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BizTalk 2013 CU1 has been released
The product team recently announced that BizTalk 2013 CU1 has been released. Within the CU there are 3 issues that are fixed:User cannot perform certain database-related operations in BizTalk Server...
View ArticleUpcoming Speaking Engagements
I am happy to announce a couple of upcoming speaking events:May 1st – Phoenix Connected Systems User Group in Tempe, ArizonaIntroducing BizTalk 2013 and the new Cloud adaptersMicrosoft recently...
View ArticlePresentation from recent talks
In the past week I have had the opportunity to speak at two events. On May 1st I spoke at the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group and on May 6th I gave two presentations at the BizTalk Bootcamp in...
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BizTalk 2013: WCF-SAP Adapter using Messaging Servers
SAP supports a few different architectures when it comes to scaling out. In some environments, mainly smaller environments, the components that facilitate sending and receiving messages (such as...
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Introducing Windows Azure BizTalk Services Preview –Part 1
On Monday, June 3rd Microsoft announced the Preview of Windows Azure BizTalk Services (aka WABS or just BizTalk Services). Windows Azure BizTalk Services is a managed service provided by Microsoft....
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Windows Azure BizTalk Services Preview (Part 2) –BizTalk Adapter Services SAP...
Over the past 7 years I have spent a lot of time integrating BizTalk and SAP systems. I probably built more interfaces for SAP than any other system. When new technology such as Windows Azure...
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