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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Oliver Hauth

Recently I had a conversation through email with Oliver Hauth , the person who as a BizTalk community member I like to bring to the foreground in this blog post. He has been awarded Microsoft Valuable Professional little over a year ago. I met Oliver in Berlin during the TechEd Europe 2010 and we'll probably meet again during the upcoming TechEd Europe 2012 in Amsterdam. He is a passionate IT professional, BizTalk forum member and fun guy to hang out with. Here is his story. Oliver is 32 years old and lives in Germany . He is married and with his wife has a two year old daughter. They are expecting their second child in September. He is the team coordinator and lead architect, responsible for the area of Business Process Integration and Workflow Solutions at MAN Diesel & Turbo SE . His job covers mostly BizTalk Server, SharePoint and Nintex Workflow, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services and Forefront Identity Management. Oliver was introduce

Help my BizTalk databases are growing!

The BizTalk Event in Italy was a blast and I had a great time. Today a day after I arrived home I got intrigued by a scenario on the BizTalk forums. The scenario described a situation that BizTalk databases are growing larger even though the BizTalk database jobs are running correctly (see also database script on MSDN Code Gallery). The execution of the BizTalk Server SQL Agent jobs are crucial for managing the BizTalk Server databases and for maintaining optimal performance. Experienced BizTalk professionals know that all the BizTalk SQL Server Agent jobs except the MessageBox_Message_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb job should be enabled and running successfully. Besides this job the other jobs should not be disabled! By default, the following BizTalk jobs aren’t configured and enabled upon installation. Backup BizTalk Server (BizTalkMgmtDb) DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb) MessageBox_Message_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb So as a BizTalk pro you need to configure these according t

OVERNET BizTalk Innovation Event | May 24, 2012 – Milan, Italy

Next week there will be BizTalk event in Milan. Overnet Education in collaboration with Microsoft Italy and User Group Italiano Connected System will organize, for the first time an interesting event related to BizTalk Server and integration services with the presence of international speakers. Myself, Sandro, Tord and Saravana will speak at this event. Event is organized by Nino Crudele in collaboration with me and few others. Nino is the founder of the User Group Italiano Connected System and will be our host. I would like to invite you all to join us next May 24, 2012 in Milan, Italy. The agenda for the event: 13:45 – 14:00 : Registration; 14:00 – 14:15 : Welcome; 14:15 – 15:00: BizTalk Host thresholds and automatic throttling by Tord Glad Nordahl ; 15:00 – 15:45: BizTalk360 by Saravana Kumar (MVP BizTalk Server) 15:45 – 16:00 : Break; 16:00 – 16:45: Adapter Pack Integration Capabilities (BizTalk) by Steef-Jan Wiggers (MVP BizTalk Server) 16:45 – 17:30: Introduction to th

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Sriram Chidambaram Narayanan

It has been a few weeks since my last post. Why, well I have been busy promoting my BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook , which was published last month. I recommend you to buy a copy (eBook and/or printed version) if you haven’t done so already. A few weeks ago, just before the book was published, I had a conversation through email with Sriram , the person who as a BizTalk community member I like to bring to the foreground now. He has recently been awarded Microsoft Community Contributor . Well done and here is his story. Sriram Chidambaram Narayanan is 27 years old professional from Chennai located in the southern part of India (State: TamilNadu ). He works as a Senior Application Architect for Computer Sciences Corporation( CSC ) in Bangalore. Sriram was at Unum for 14 months in the United States and returned back to India a couple of months ago. Sriram has a total of 6 years of BizTalk experience.He started his career with developing and gradually evolved to a role where he is de