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Olso story continues

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A few days ago an article appeared on eWeek titled ‘Oslo: Road to Microsoft’s Cloud’. This article displays a nice outline, where Oslo is heading. With PDC coming in October Oslo will also get its fair share of attention. I for one hope to be able to go there together with my colleague Edward Bakker from Inter Access. If you are interested you should look at the session agenda . For now I will focus on my coming summer holiday, a couple of weeks with the family visiting the Czech republic. After that I will continue with my HPL environment and finish writing some articles. Technorati: Microsoft OSLO

BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer

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O ne of my High Performance Learning Environment post reader gave me a hint to have a look at BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer. In past I have used this tool and I forgot that it could be useful to apply on the environment I created. The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer (version V1.1)performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases, and registry entries. The Best Practices Analyzer uses the data to evaluate the deployment configuration. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is not a self-tuning tool. I downloaded it and gave it a spin inside my environment. It came up with some critical issues; which were resolved by enabling first of all SQL Server agent (so jobs can run) and enable jobs. Second thing was to change steps inside the job ‘Backup BizTalk Server’ because

High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part III - Tooling

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First step for High Performance Learning environment lasted two days in total, setting up OS, AD, SQL Server, BizTalk Server en SCOM. Next step is install tooling, one is of course VS 2005 to be able to develop BizTalk artifacts like orchestrations, pipelines, maps and schema’s. For alignment of BizTalk Server R2 to align with VS 2008 you have to wait until R3, that integrates with not only VS 2008 but also SQL Server 2008 and Windows OS 2008. Besides VS 2005 the following tooling from CodePlex and other resources are installed in the environment: * BizTalk Solution Factory; * Pipeline Testing Tool; * BizUnit; * BizUnitDesigner; * Enterprise Library 3.1 May 2007; * Log4Net; * Code Style Enforcer; * BizTalk Deployment Framework; * Orchestration Profiler; * MapCop; * BizTalk Server Pattern Wizard. This tooling will be helpful during the following steps in High Performance Learning Developing Solutions, testing and deploying. Most of you people will found their way in CodePlex, so there

High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part IIa - Configuration SCOM

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L ast bit of my High Performance Learning Environment was configuring System Center Operation Manager (SCOM). At least I installed operation manager and in my menubar I have operation manager and access to command shell, operation console and web console. Screen shot of web console can be seen below. In setup of SCOM you can find installation documentation, it also tells you how to deploy SCOM on a single computer using setup wizard. And that is what I have done, but I have configured SCOM to do something like monitoring BizTalk. So next step is getting the BizTalk Management Pack for SCOM, see also my previous post about BizTalk and SCOM. I installed management pack, which seem to go smoothly and then I imported the pack inside SCOM. Through application console inside administration you can import management pack. You will have to import Microsoft.BizTalk.Server.2006.Library 6.0.6278.16 and Microsoft.BizTalk.Server.2006.Discovery 6.0.6278.16 first, because BizTalk Monitoring Manageme

High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk Part II - Install & Configuration

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In this part I will lay out what I have done to create the environment.Setting up VPC one will need the following Iso's or DVD's: VPC: * Microsoft Virtual PC 6.0.156.0 (2007) OS: * en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_with_sp2_cd1_X13-05460 * en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_with_sp2_cd1_X13-05460 BizTalk: * en_biztalk_server_2006_r2_developer_x86_x64_dvd_X14-00846 SCOM: * en_scom_2007_cd_X13-72525 SQL Server 2005: * en_sql_2005_ent_x86_dvd VS 2005: * en_vs_2005_pro_dvd At least these are one I have used. One will obtain these through an MSDN subscription or maybe trail editions. First step to setting up the environment is installing OS on VPC. This is pretty straigh forward, in one of my previous post I have outlined this before. Same account for installing SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Note here though after installing OS do not forget Virtual Machine add-ons and apply patches. If cannot reach internet through VPC look here. (http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_p