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Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 1

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In one of my previous post I talked a little bit about monitoring BizTalk solutions in the enterprise. I now want to delve into some of the offerings around monitoring BizTalk Solutions. I like to discuss three available tools available today, at least I will delve into each one in separate: · BizMon Tool ; · FRENDS Helium ; · Minotaur . I will start with BizMon Tool made by Richard Hallgren. To set it up I downloaded the tool after filling out a form. I deploy this tool on one of my VPC’s and in this case a fresh one with BizTalk 2009, SQL Server 2008, VS 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008. BizMon supports installation on either directly on BizTalk machine or on a stand-alone server without previous BizTalk installation. It will require some basic Windows component as well as some BizTalk administration components. System requirements Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 IIS 6 or IIS 7 .NET Framework 3.5 When installing on a standalone-server you need to install the follo

BizTalk Server 2009 R2

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New version of BizTalk Server 2009 R2 has been announced . It will no doubt about align with latest versions of Microsoft Platform like Visual Studio 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. So like BizTalk Server 2006, there will be R2 following up shortly. What I find interesting to see at blogpost from Thiago was that BizTalk Server 2009 R2 will be released in 2010 with AppFabric wave of releases, so my little endeavor with AppFabric yesterday comes in handy. I should say read Thiago post for starters and then move to Brain post with more information, background and thoughts. Of course you can also if you have the time watch PDC video about BizTalk Futures and roadmap. Technorati: AppFabric Roadmap BizTalk

Working with Windows Server AppFabric

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In previous post I mentioned Windows Server AppFabric.Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for you to easily build and manage composite applications, including: · Enhanced design and development tools in Visual Studio to build rich composite applications; · Management and monitoring of sevices and workflows via integration with IIS Manager and Windows PowerShell; · Distributed in-memory application cache to improve application performance. Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 is available now for you as a developer to start building your next-generation composite applications, and for administrators to host and manage them. It integrates technologies previewed as code name " Dublin &q

Microsoft BizTalk Server Futures and Roadmap

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Want to hear how your development skills with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) work seamlessly with the powerful integration platform of BizTalk. Do want to find out how BizTalk aligns with the Microsoft application server in the longer term. Look at this presentation from PDC09. Technorati: BizTalk BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009 PDC09

Windows Server AppFabric

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  At PDC Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools Business, introduced the world to Windows AppFabric. Windows Server AppFabric is a new set of capabilities, bringing together the functionality of Dublin, as well as Velocity (a high-performance, distributed, highly-scalable in-memory cache). In a related move, the Service Bus and Access Control Services that were formerly part of the .NET Services brand have also been rebranded and we now have we now have “Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus” and “Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control services”. Read Brain Loesgen post or Sam Gentile post .So there is something new to play with again. Like last year at PDC08 with Windows Azure. Have fun. Technorati: microsoft azure PDC09

BizTalk at PDC 2009

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Latest update on PDC09 regarding BizTalk are being posted last wednesday by BizTalk Server Team. I mentioned some sessions a while ago . Team blog post will tell you what session, where and by who will be given coming week at PDC09. I am will virtually attending through channel 9 at home. Technorati: BizTalk BizTalk 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2009 PDC09

PaaS for SaaS

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If you have been following what is going in cloud space, Microsoft is bringing its platform to the cloud. I witnessed its revelation called Windows Azure during PDC 2008 and it has improved a lot during last 12 months. Picture above resembles its technology stack as it now today. I found this picture from Roger Jennings blog site . A good resource to find a lot of information and so on if you like to know more about Windows Azure. I have some experience with Azure as I tried it out in the beginning and with later released CTP’s. It even inspired me to write an article about Windows Azure for a Dutch Magazine together with Microsoft’s Regional Director Anko Duizer . Soon Microsoft will commercialize Windows Azure and it will be a fact after PDC 2009 this month. It will unveil a gateway to a consumption based pricing model, that will drive’s Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform. This will bring another acronym into the world if it has not already: Platform as a Service ( PaaS ), consist

Windows Groups and User Accounts in BizTalk Server on single Computer (Sandbox)

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The Configuration Manager creates the necessary Windows group and user accounts for you by default if you install BizTalk Server and all prerequisite software on a single computer. BizTalk Server supports local group and user accounts only in single computer configurations. BizTalk Server gives you the ability to configure your server in one of two modes, Basic or Custom. Basic configuration is targeted for developers setting up single server installations for development preferable a sandbox virtual machine. What will happen is that the following will occur: · All database names are generated by BizTalk Server under account provided that needs to have sysadmin rights in SQL Server database; · All applicable database logon information is run under the account provided. · All BizTalk Server services are generated by BizTalk Server. · All BizTalk Server services run under the account provided. The configuration process grants this account the necessary security permissions on the