I have a new story for BizTalk Community Series before I will be heading of to the MVP Summit. Currently I am staying with Kent Weare in Calgary and yesterday did a presentation at his company on versatile adapter pack capabilities. Kent and Bil Simser did presentations on Service Bus, Queues, Topics and SharePoint 2010. It was pretty amazing. Ok now to the story.
Recently I have had a chat with DPS Bali, an active BizTalk forum member and blogger. Like me he likes to play field hockey, so I finally met someone that likes BizTalk and field hockey.
DPS Bali comes from the valley of Kashmir in the northern part of India. He is an alumni of the Burn Hall School situated near the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar. He has based his life and experience on school’s motto Industria- Floremus In toil we shall Flourish.
DPS Bali is currently a Technical Architect with Fulcrum Worldwide. Besides his role as architect he is also an Integration SME, specializing in creating BizTalk Solutions for EAI and B2B purposes.He has worked with multiple clients across the globe in a variety of domains like Telecom, Insurance, Finance, Airlines, US Healthcare and UK Higher Education.
DPS Bali’s experience with BizTalk covers almost all the areas of the product ranging from development to production support. He has worked with almost all the versions of BizTalk Server (2004 to BizTalk 2010). His current job involves assessing the customer needs around EAI, ESB and SOA, giving his customers the best possible design and solutions.
DPS Bali started his career in the IT with developing middleware code base for a UK based Telecom giant and since then has always strived to keep himself focused on the integration technologies and standards. His excited on the next BizTalk Server product and I quote:
“With BizTalk Server 2010 R2 on the horizon, the maturity of the product is something that is very exciting at this stage and am looking forward for the opportunity.”
Besides that he is I quote:
“At the moment I am also doing a deep dive into the Cloud Computing technology stack from Microsoft and App Fabric Service Bus to get a hands on the same.”
In his spare time DPS Bali likes to blog and be online on the BizTalk Community Forums. He also likes to take up road trips and has travelled to a plethora of destinations. His favorite destination is his native place, where he likes to spend his vacations with his family, as the valley of Kashmir is truly the heaven on earth.
DPS Bali is an active cricket- and field hockey player. Yuvraj Singh a cricketer, Rajpal Singh a hockey player and Messi a soccer player are a few of his favorite sportspersons. Besides cricket and hockey he also likes to visit the ski heaven in Gulmarg, Kashmir to enjoy winter sporting.
DPS Bali final quote:
“I would like to thank all the readers of my blog for the inspiration that they instill in me to keep sharing my thoughts. Steef-Jan you are a real role model in and around the BizTalk technology space and your work in the BizTalk community is commendable.”
I like to thank DPS Bali for his time and his contributions to the BizTalk community.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rajesh Kolla
Currently there is a lot of activity in BizTalk community. BizTalkadminsblogging has had a flying start with a lot of contributions. Number of BizTalk related articles on the TechNet wiki is growing. Besides the wiki a lot of BizTalk pro’s are active on blogs and forums. So today I like to continue with the fifth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Rajesh Kolla. I had a little chat with Rajesh through email.
Rajesh Kolla, is working with Microsoft technologies (ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server, MCMS, WinForms and son on) since 2002. He is currently working as Managing Consultant with Sogeti USA based out of Houston, TX, USA.
Rasjesh has been working with BizTalk since 2006. He worked with following versions of BizTalk Server: 2004, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009 and 2010. His day to day job includes architecting integration solutions, development, and deployment of BizTalk applications. His view on the BizTalk Server product I quote:
“I think, BizTalk has been emerged as a powerful integration/middleware product with familiar tooling and extensible components and frameworks. I envision that, it is going to play even more vital role in developing hybrid solutions between on-premise and cloud in future.”
Rajesh likes to watch cricket and Indian movies/TV in his free time (Thanks to his Roku player for providing low-cost alternative to watch regional TV and movies). This might however change after his wife will give birth to his first child in June/July. He likes to play Cricket and Shuttle badminton. His favorite team is Team India (Indian Cricket team).
Rajesh has been sharing tips/gotchas out of his personal experiences with BizTalk and Azure platform through his blog and answering questions on MSDN forums (see his profile).
His final quote:
“I would like to request our readers also to contribute in their own way, as it is going to help and save time of someone somewhere.”
Thanks Rajesh for taking time to have a little chat with me.
Rajesh Kolla, is working with Microsoft technologies (ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server, MCMS, WinForms and son on) since 2002. He is currently working as Managing Consultant with Sogeti USA based out of Houston, TX, USA.
Rasjesh has been working with BizTalk since 2006. He worked with following versions of BizTalk Server: 2004, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009 and 2010. His day to day job includes architecting integration solutions, development, and deployment of BizTalk applications. His view on the BizTalk Server product I quote:
“I think, BizTalk has been emerged as a powerful integration/middleware product with familiar tooling and extensible components and frameworks. I envision that, it is going to play even more vital role in developing hybrid solutions between on-premise and cloud in future.”
Rajesh likes to watch cricket and Indian movies/TV in his free time (Thanks to his Roku player for providing low-cost alternative to watch regional TV and movies). This might however change after his wife will give birth to his first child in June/July. He likes to play Cricket and Shuttle badminton. His favorite team is Team India (Indian Cricket team).
Rajesh has been sharing tips/gotchas out of his personal experiences with BizTalk and Azure platform through his blog and answering questions on MSDN forums (see his profile).
His final quote:
“I would like to request our readers also to contribute in their own way, as it is going to help and save time of someone somewhere.”
Thanks Rajesh for taking time to have a little chat with me.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
My next ten TechNet Wiki Articles on BizTalk Continued….
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. Next ten were created by 15th of January. Now a few weeks later I have finished the next ten:
Cheers!
- First on MSDTC that plays an important role in a BizTalk environment
- A couple of survival guides:
- BizTalk Server 2010: Enterprise SSO Survival Guide
- Host Integration Server 2010: Survival Guide
- BizTalk Orchestrations XPath: Survival Guide
- BizTalk Server 2010: RFID Survival Guide
- One BizTalk Pricing and Licensing (mostly the work has been done by Tord G. Nordahl)
- List of BizTalk Books ranging from BizTalk 2004 to current 2010 version
- Combination of BizTalk and PowerShell: BizTalk Server 2010: PowerShell
- An article on how to determine the version and edition of BizTalk
- Finally one on Virtualization for BizTalk Server 2010
Cheers!
Monday, February 06, 2012
Interview with a BizTalk MVP Wiki Ninja!!! - Sandro Pereira
I have done an interview with fellow BizTalk MVP Sandro. You can read it here. 
Sandro is one of the technical reviewers of my forthcoming BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook.
Enjoy the story!
Sandro is one of the technical reviewers of my forthcoming BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook.Enjoy the story!
Sunday, February 05, 2012
A flying start for BizTalkAdminsblogging.com
BizTalkadminsblogging has had a tremendous start. Within a week and a half 13 posts already and this will be number 14. An average almost two blog posts a day. This reflects the high demand for BizTalk administration related information, the need for sharing it and desire to create more exposure for this aspect of BizTalk Server. Jeroen and Joris have done an excellent job setting up this blog site, running and maintaining it. The recent posts have touched topics like PowerShell, Microsoft Operation Framework, and so on.
There is also a TechNet Wiki, where some of the bloggers and others have written articles on BizTalk Administration. I, Tord G. Nordahl, Sandro Pereira, Howard S. Edidin and Microsoft have written the following articles that are related to BizTalk administration:
In the near future Jeroen and I want to organize an event with the Dutch BizTalk User Group that is focused on BizTalk administration. A similar event has already taken place last week. The Ordina BizTalk Innovation Event with topic Administration and Monitoring has been a great success. More than 40 attendees were present at the event. This shows the growing commitment of the community towards BizTalk administration.
There is also a TechNet Wiki, where some of the bloggers and others have written articles on BizTalk Administration. I, Tord G. Nordahl, Sandro Pereira, Howard S. Edidin and Microsoft have written the following articles that are related to BizTalk administration:
- BizTalk Server 2010 - Tools
- BizTalk Server: Disaster Recovery
- BizTalk Monitoring Tools
- Administering BizTalk 2010 - Roles and Responsibilities
- BizTalk Server 2010: MSDTC
- Installing BizTalk Server 2010 in a Basic Multi-Computer Environment
- BizTalk Server 2010 Host Throttling
- BizTalk Server 2010: SQL Agent jobs
- BizTalk Server - Determine Version and Edition
- BizTalk Server: Host architecture
- BizTalk: List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions
- BizTalk Administrator Guidelines
- BizTalk Server: High Availability
- BizTalk Databases: Survival Guide
- BizTalk Health Check
- Microsoft BizTalk automatic throttling
- BizTalk Roles
- Recommendations for Installing, Sizing, Deploying, and Maintaining a BizTalk Server Solution
- BizTalk Administrator's Checklist Compiled by Microsoft BizTalk Support
- Common Issues and Resolutions with the BizTalk Server Administration Console
- BizTalk Server - Troubleshooting Problems with MSDTC
- Multiple Message Boxes in BizTalk (Scale out message box)
In the near future Jeroen and I want to organize an event with the Dutch BizTalk User Group that is focused on BizTalk administration. A similar event has already taken place last week. The Ordina BizTalk Innovation Event with topic Administration and Monitoring has been a great success. More than 40 attendees were present at the event. This shows the growing commitment of the community towards BizTalk administration.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
BizTalk Community series: Introducing Abhijit Mahato
Writing these stories so far on community members has been a great experience and I received a lot of positive feedback. The stories continue with the fourth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Abhijit Mahato. He is a Microsoft Community Contributor since 2011, a blogger and an active BizTalk forum member.
Abhijit is married to his lovely wife Laxmi, and they are expecting their first child in March 2012. His family lives in Kolkata, also known as “The City of Joy, City of Palaces, the Cultural capital of India”, located in the eastern part of India.
Abhijit currently works as a Senior BizTalk Consultant at Capgemini, one of the world’s largest IT Services, Consulting and Outsourcing companies with over 115,000 people operating in 40 countries. His job involves working with customers on integration projects especially using BizTalk Server, WCF (.Net) and SQL Server (SSIS). He loves to design, architect, and develop BizTalk Solution. Also he likes to install and configure BizTalk Server.
He had his first integration project using BizTalk Server 2004 in the year 2005. His senior project manager and customer highly appreciated his work and effort. This motivated him to do more integration projects. Since then Abhijit has worked on many large and complex integration projects with BizTalk.
Abhijit feels that the best thing about working in any integration project is learning BizTalk (Integration product) and also the opportunity to learn other technologies like SAP, EDI, MS CRM and so on. What he likes the most about BizTalk Server product and I quote is:
“It is currently one of the most mature, reliable and stable integration server in the industry.”
Furthermore he describes the product in the following manner:
“It has got a huge number of “out of the box” adapters; and there is a long list of other features like message persistence, recovery in case of failure in communication, correlation, long running transactions, monitoring of business processes, complex mapping, and the ESB. Furthermore BizTalk contains a number of tools like BRE, BAM, SSO, BizTalk Admin console and so on enhancing productivity.”
Finally Abhijit is very excited about Microsoft’s recent announcement of the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2010 R2, and is looking forward to exploring and working with this new release.
In his spare time, Abhijit loves to spend time with his family and friends, take participation in various quiz competitions and enjoy solving mathematical and logical puzzles. Besides that he loves reading technical blogs on new Microsoft technologies like Windows AppFabric,Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Azure. Finally he also spends time in contributing to MSDN BizTalk forums and write blogs posts about BizTalk issues and related topics.
Abhijit would like to thank people for reading his posts and appreciates if they can also provide feedback. This will keep him motivated to continue to contribute. He feels this will also improve the online BizTalk community experience for others.
A final quote from Abhijit:
“I believe that one doesn’t ever get tired until he makes the last attempt and doesn’t ever make the last attempt until he is successful.”
I would like to thank Abhijit for his contributions to the community and the time he took to have a chat with me.
Abhijit is married to his lovely wife Laxmi, and they are expecting their first child in March 2012. His family lives in Kolkata, also known as “The City of Joy, City of Palaces, the Cultural capital of India”, located in the eastern part of India.
Abhijit currently works as a Senior BizTalk Consultant at Capgemini, one of the world’s largest IT Services, Consulting and Outsourcing companies with over 115,000 people operating in 40 countries. His job involves working with customers on integration projects especially using BizTalk Server, WCF (.Net) and SQL Server (SSIS). He loves to design, architect, and develop BizTalk Solution. Also he likes to install and configure BizTalk Server.
He had his first integration project using BizTalk Server 2004 in the year 2005. His senior project manager and customer highly appreciated his work and effort. This motivated him to do more integration projects. Since then Abhijit has worked on many large and complex integration projects with BizTalk.
Abhijit feels that the best thing about working in any integration project is learning BizTalk (Integration product) and also the opportunity to learn other technologies like SAP, EDI, MS CRM and so on. What he likes the most about BizTalk Server product and I quote is:
“It is currently one of the most mature, reliable and stable integration server in the industry.”
Furthermore he describes the product in the following manner:
“It has got a huge number of “out of the box” adapters; and there is a long list of other features like message persistence, recovery in case of failure in communication, correlation, long running transactions, monitoring of business processes, complex mapping, and the ESB. Furthermore BizTalk contains a number of tools like BRE, BAM, SSO, BizTalk Admin console and so on enhancing productivity.”
Finally Abhijit is very excited about Microsoft’s recent announcement of the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2010 R2, and is looking forward to exploring and working with this new release.
In his spare time, Abhijit loves to spend time with his family and friends, take participation in various quiz competitions and enjoy solving mathematical and logical puzzles. Besides that he loves reading technical blogs on new Microsoft technologies like Windows AppFabric,Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Azure. Finally he also spends time in contributing to MSDN BizTalk forums and write blogs posts about BizTalk issues and related topics.
Abhijit would like to thank people for reading his posts and appreciates if they can also provide feedback. This will keep him motivated to continue to contribute. He feels this will also improve the online BizTalk community experience for others.
A final quote from Abhijit:
“I believe that one doesn’t ever get tired until he makes the last attempt and doesn’t ever make the last attempt until he is successful.”
I would like to thank Abhijit for his contributions to the community and the time he took to have a chat with me.
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