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A new blog for BizTalk Administrators

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There is a new BizTalk blog. Another one, yes targeted for BizTalk administrators. Why? There are many blogs out there. Yet most of them are focused on the developer. There is not much on BizTalk administrative topics nor one blog where BizTalk administrators share their knowledge, and experience between each other and with the community. Jeroen Hendriks from Axon Olympus started an initiative to create a blog for BizTalk professionals with a heart for managing BizTalk. He talked this through with me sharing some thoughts and a game plan. We took from there and blog is live now! You can join as contributor by contacting Jeroen (administrator and owner) through Contact Us . Currently besides me and Jeroen , two more professionals from the field joined: Tord Glad Nordahl and Howard S. Edidin . Probably more BizTalk professionals will join over time. I hope many will contribute and even more will read this blog. Enjoy.

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rene Brauwers

The third story of the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground is on Rene Brauwers . He is mainly an active blogger on BizTalk Server. His blog contains highly valuable posts on setting up a BizTalk infrastructure, how to integrate with CRM 2011 and on many other topics. Last year he also acted as technical reviewer for BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns book and for my forthcoming BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook . Rene is 34 years old, born in Venlo , the Netherlands, and he moved to The Hague in 1996 to study. Ever since he has stayed in or close to that city. He currently lives together with his girlfriend Miranda in Rijswijk . Rene is a BizTalk Specialist at Motion10 and is he considers himself as one of those people who is lucky enough to say that he can make a living out of his hobby. His BizTalk expertise ranges from the early stage involvement like pre-sales, proof-of-concepts, requirements gathering, architecting, developing

TechNet Wiki: The number of BizTalk articles is growing …

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post for the Official blog of TechNet Wiki with the topic “Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: BizTalk Server” . In that blog post I wrote a story on contributions of the community and Microsoft employees for the TechNet Wiki . Mid December there were little of 40 BizTalk Wiki Articles and over a month’s time it has grown to little over 70 . That is a tremendous growth of articles (around 30 ). It show increasing popularity of the TechNet Wiki as a channel of information on Microsoft technology and products. The newly added articles on BizTalk Server have been written by myself, Tord Glad Nordahl , Sandro Pereira , Howard S. Edidin , and Mick Badran . All these articles (existing and new) are being improved every day by people mentioned here and others (Microsoft employees and the community). I expect the number will grow over time to over 100+ articles as more community members will probably join. With the wealth of information on TechNet Wiki, MSDN and

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rohit Sharma

This is the second story in the BizTalk Community Series bringing active BizTalk community members to the foreground. I have received a lot of positive feedback from the first post on Tord Gald Nordahl . The series will continue with the second person from the BizTalk community I like to introduce: Rohit Sharma . He has recently been awarded MVP for BizTalk Server, and is an valuable contributor to BizTalk forums and active blogger . Rohit is 28 years old and lives in Chandigarh , also known as "The City Beautiful", located in the northern part of India . He works in Mohali as a Senior Software Developer at Ionnor Solutions Pvt. Ltd , which is part of EDB ErgoGroup , Norway . Rohit loves to design and develop BizTalk solutions, and he likes the challenge of tuning the BizTalk environment for performance optimizations. His journey with BizTalk started early 2007 and working with BizTalk since then gave him the opportunities to explore different tools and technologies

My next ten TechNet Wiki Articles on BizTalk

Last couple of weeks I written a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki . The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community and Microsoft employees about Microsoft technologies and products for the community. I very much like the concept and in November 2011 I completed my first ten articles . I continued to work on some articles and now below you will find a list of my next ten completed wiki articles on BizTalk and one on Windows Azure Service Bus EDI/EAI: First are a couple of articles on the adapters available through BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010: BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 - WCF SAP Adapter BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 - WCF OracleDb Adapter BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 – WCF SQL Adapter BizTalk Server 2010 Adapter Pack - SQL Azure BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 - WCF Oracle E-Business Adapter BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 - WCF based Siebel Adapter Next an article on unit testing for BizTalk Server An article on BizTalk High Availability Overview of all the MSD

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Tord Glad Nordahl

Most of you are familiar with the interview series by Richard Seroter . Based on this concept I want to start with a series of blog posts, in which I would like to introduce active BizTalk community members. Contrary to the interview series the focus here will be solely on BizTalk Server. It will bring several active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The first person from the BizTalk community I like to introduce is Tord Glad Nordahl , an active community personality with a strong BizTalk administrative background. He has been active on forums and TechNet Wiki for the last couple of months. I had a chat with him on his background, what kept him busy in real-life, what sports he enjoys practicing and/or watching and what he would like to say to the BizTalk community. Tord is 25 years old, has a beautiful wife Alfa, and has a lovely daughter Maribell who is nearly two years old. In June they are expecting their second child. The family lives in the rainy city of Bergen

My year 2011 In retrospective

In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2011 went. For one it has been a very busy year. I have been writing a BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook that due March this year. It took me more than nine months to write. I have had great support from Randal van Splunteren , Richard Seroter , Saravana Kumar , Tord Gard Nordahl , Mikael Hakansson , Sandro Perreira , Rene Brauwers and Abdul Rafay . They have supported me by reviewing it, contributions and valuable advice. That is not all I have been doing more than just writing a book. I have written 47 blog posts on this blog and some on the BizTalk Ordina blog , a lot of wiki articles , code gallery samples , articles for magazines, book reviewing, and public speaking. I enjoyed my interview with Richard Seroter during the MVP Summit and the interview about me by Ed Price. I loved the opportunity to speak at Ordina , BizTalk User Group Netherlands and Sweden: Masterclass BizTalk and AppFabric BTUG: BizTalk integration with Sale

Ordina BizTalk Innovation Event: Monitoring and Administration

I am organizing an event at Ordina on BizTalk Innovation with the topic “Monitoring and Administration”. This is the first event of a series of events under name “Ordina BizTalk Innovation” that will take place at my company Ordina. This and future events are open for customers, the community and Ordina professionals. The event on the 1st of February three speakers will do their presentations on BizTalk Monitoring and administration. During the event I will be the host. Wouter Crooy , Senior BizTalk Consultant, will have a session on: Custom Monitoring solutions for BizTalk, ESB Toolkit & WCF Wouter will during his talk provide a number of custom solutions for monitoring a BizTalk solution and the ESB Toolkit . Using the standard tooling of BizTalk will get you a long way, still with some of the custom monitoring solutions you can have more insight in your own custom BizTalk solutions. Saravana Kumar , BizTalk MVP, CEO of BizTalk360 will talk on: Manage your BizTalk Server e