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PDC2009 BizTalk Sever Sessions

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Last BTUG question was asked who will be going to PDC 09 this year. No one raised his hand compared to a lot of hands last year even though no BizTalk session was given. It will be the other way around this year; hence almost no one unfortunately is going there are BizTalk sessions planned this year. I am still secretly hoping I can go, but chances are slim. What session about BizTalk are planned this year at PDC09 Queuing and Publish/Subscribe in a Heterogeneous Environment by David Ingham , John O’Hara Queuing and publish/subscribe are common patterns for building loosely-coupled, distributed applications. Learn how to use Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) the new Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 routing service, the Microsoft .NET Service Bus, and Microsoft BizTalk Server to easily connect heterogeneous systems. We’ll then introduce AMQP (the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol), an important new open standard for interoperable message-oriented middleware, which will reduce t

BTUG Fall Session

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Yesterday the last BTUG gathering took place at Unisys in Amsterdam. We had two sessions from Brain Loesgen who was over in Holland for SOA symposium and one from Gerben. Brain sessions: · ESB Toolkit · BizTalk Development Best Practices Gerben session: · HL7 Accelerator A lot of people form BTUG community attended session and show that from its inception until today is in fact a strong one. Our little country is a big BizTalk country having a lot of customers using the product in their application landscape with many BTUG members as its implementers. First session of Brain was around ESB Toolkit and few people still wondered what ESB actually is. I can explain in three sentences, because that all is takes: ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is an architectural style. It enables enterprises to obtain flexibility (or one can use buzz word agility) towards other systems by hosting services in the bus. Bus can be implemented with a variety of products like BizTalk in combinatio

My colleagues in motion

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Previous post I mentioned the release of SP1 Beta for BizTalk Server 2006 R2. One of my colleagues at motion10 Rene has tried it out on one of his VPC’s, so if you are interested definitely check out his post , it’s very detailed. Another great blog post has been put out by another colleague Sander who explains in detail BizTalk AIF Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics 2009 AX. This post with the latest article in BizTalk Hotrod Magazine can give you a head start if you need to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics 2009 AX. Technorati: BizTalk BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 Beta

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If you working with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and there are a lot of installation (instances) globally a new SP1 is coming out soon. Beta SP1 for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has been released today. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2.  It includes fixes to issues that have been reported through customer feedback platforms towards Microsoft, as well as within Microsoft discovered issues. To get hold of the beta you need to go here . A guide for this service pack is also available on the download page.  Technorati: BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Monitoring BizTalk Solutions in an Enterprise

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There are certain aspects (governance, support groups) that need to be understood when monitoring BizTalk solutions starts become necessary. One aspect is support groups with roles and responsibilities. I summarize here what in my opinion and experience these groups should be and which roles are mandatory: Technical supports needs to monitor Operating System and SQL Server: System administrator (support, monitor health of system); Database administrator (support, monitor health of database). Functional support to monitor messaging, orchestrations, ports: BizTalk Support (Interface Specialist, Process Specialist); BizTalk Operator (support deployment BizTalk applications, configuration); BizTalk Developer (BizTalk Application Specialist). Business level support to monitor activity, throughput: Business Analyst (monitor activity/processes, analyze trends); Business Support Manager (monitor activ

BizTalk and SharePoint Services a good couple

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About two years ago a walkthrough article was written by Arnulfo Wing about using BizTalk Server 2006 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. And more were written from that time on and maybe even before. It shows that integration with SharePoint is very feasible and natural, being both Microsoft products with .NET technology. Some examples you can use as background or material to experiment with WSS 3.0 and BizTalk are: Collaborating with the BizTalk 2006 R2 SharePoint Adapter ; Windows SharePoint Services Support in BizTalk Server ; Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User Guide, Version 1.1 ; Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 ; Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Mar 2009 CTP ; BizTalk 2009 + SharePoint/WSS 3.0 integration first look ; BizTalk + SharePoint: 1+1=3 ; Last one a whitepaper was written by my colleagues Wesley and Gijsbert

Some More BizTalk Resources

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From time to time I keep looking around the internet, blogs, articles and so to find new or more BizTalk Resources. There are some interesting videos for BizTalk Server available through BizTalk Server Development Center. Definitely something you can check out if you have not stumbled on it already. Other thing I found very use full is the BizTalk Posters . At my office at Motion10 there are loads of them on the wall. One l really like is BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 Interactive Poster (in Silverlight) . Another thing I found today was a post by Thiago who posted or at least gives you pointer to BizTalk Visio icons, very handy indeed. So there you go more resources to add on the every growing heap of information. Technorati: BizTalk Server 2009