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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rajasekhar.R

A few weeks back I posted a story on the TechNet Wiki blog regarding the increasing number of BizTalk community members contributing to the TechNet Wiki. One of them is Rajasekhar.R , who is a young BizTalk talent from India. So today's story is on him.   Rajasekhar.R   is 21 Years Old, and lives in Coimbatore ( TamilNadu - South India), which has a beautiful climate all over the year and is located near OOTY (Queen of the Hills). He has completed his B.Tech Information Technology (UG) June'11 and started his career in the Technology BizTalk server as a IT Analyst at  Cameron Manufacturing India Pvt Ltd since Aug'2011.   At Cameron Rajasekhar has had the opportunity to work on the entire BizTalk Application Life Cycle; from designing the technical specifications to supporting the application. He has gained experience in installing and configuring the BizTalk server, where he has faced his first challenges. He learned a lot from that first experience. Fro

BizTalk Virtual Machine in Windows Azure using Quick Create–Part II

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In my previous post I discussed ways to setup a BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Virtual Machine in Azure. The post demonstrates how a VM with the BizTalk Server 2010 R2 is provisioned using CREATE CREATE . However the BizTalk Server 2010 R2 is installed on the VM, but not yet configured! Ergo you have to do that yourself! This is pointed out in Getting started with BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP in Windows Azure Virtual Machines post by BizTalk Server Team. However, it explains to do a basic configuration, while I choose to do a custom configuration of the all the features. Note: On first logon, a few start up tasks will be executed. Wait until the SQL Server – Getting Started link is created on desktop. The configuration is the same as for BizTalk Server 2010 setting up SSO, Group, Runtime and so on. Some of the other BizTalk components like adapter pack are not installed on this Virtual Machine either. This explains presence of the BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP folder and SQLServ

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Sandro Pereira

One of the benefits of my job and role as MVP is that I have the opportunity to meet a lot of BizTalk community members, MVP’s and Microsoft professionals around the world. Some of them became good friends. One of them is Sandro Pereira , who I met for the first time during MVP summit beginning 2011. He is very active in the community through for instance blogs, forums, and the TechNet Wiki. Many of you will probably recognize him through on of his contributions. Sandro Pereira is 34 years old and lives in Crestuma , a small village in the beautiful region of Oporto in Portugal (known worldwide for its wine: Port wine and also classified as World Heritage by UNESCO ). At end of this year he will begin a life together with his beautiful girlfriend Lígia, a big support in his life. Sandro started his professional career as a Java, C++ and C# developer and then as a Web project manager. In 2005 he decided it was time to accept a new challenge and joined DevScope as BizTalk consu

BizTalk Virtual Machine in Windows Azure using Quick Create

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Fellow BizTalk MVP Stephen W. Thomas has created two excellent posts on setting up a BizTalk Server 2010 CTP in Azure: Setting Up BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine using the Gallery Running a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Locally with Hyper-V or VMware 8 / VMware 9 In this post I like to share my experience and do a follow up on my post BizTalk IaaS solution: Provisioning Developer Environment . Now I have an Azure subscription through my MSDN account, yet you can setup a trail subscription (see Stephen’s post) or have a paid subscription. Look at the pricing page to see the options for yourself and choose what is best fit in case you do not have an MSDN account. MSDN provides some benefits when it comes to Windows Azure. With any subscription you can log into the portal. You can then on left hand side choose virtual machines. You can then select CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE . You will then see a dialog appear as below. You can choose to use QUICK CREATE of

BizTalk360 continues to evolve: The fifth release in Beta

Monitoring is essential to keep your BizTalk environments healthy and running smoothly. With monitoring you have a couple of options. Either using System Center Operation Manager , a combination of SCOM and third party tooling or solely use third party tooling. 1. Monitoring the BizTalk environment with SCOM can be done with using the management pack for BizTalk Server or AVIcode .NET Application Management Pack . 2. An alternative monitoring solution is BizTalk360 , which you can combine with using SCOM. This means you can have best of both worlds. 3. In case your enterprise does not have SCOM or is planning to deploy SCOM, BizTalk360 itself can be an excellent choice for monitoring BizTalk environments. To efficiently monitor a BizTalk environment people with different roles are involved like: · System Administrator, · Database Administrator and    · BizTalk Administrator. Each has different needs for information to be able to resolve or prevent issues. BizTalk360 c