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BizTalk Server 2013, Accelerators and HIS 2013 Beta Install media

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Almost two years ago I wrote a post on the location of the BizTalk Adapters for BizTalk 2010. For BizTalk 2010 there are basically two folders both containing a setup application. One folder contains the setup for installation of BizTalk, RFID and Adapter Pack. The other folder contains a setup for BizTalk accelerators. This is a little bit different for BizTalk Server 2013 Beta. In case you download BizTalk2013Beta.exe from the Download Center   you will have a folder named for instance BizTalk2013beta (depending how you named the folder when unpacking the media). When you run the setup in that folder you can install BizTalk, UDDI Services, RFID, BizTalk Adapters and ESB Toolkit. For BizTalk Server 2013 Beta itself there is documentation available for installation (divers Operating Systems), and the product itself . In case you download BizTalk2013AcceleratorsBeta.exe from the Download Center   you will have a folder for instance called BizTalk2013AcceleratorsBeta (depen

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Sander Nefs

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To start things off: Happy holidays! We are almost at the end of the year 2012. Before that is a fact I would like to one final story for BizTalk Community Series this year. The story of today will be on my colleague from motion10 Sander Nefs . We have been collaborating on a few projects in the past and are currently working on a project at a big online retailer. Sander is a young and smart BizTalk professional. He has a blog on BizTalk for a few years now. From time to time he posts very useful information on BizTalk. Sander is a BizTalk consultant at motion10 . Like me he works on different BizTalk projects. He would describe his job as follows: My job consists of involvement albeit architecting-designing/developing integration based solutions using BizTalk Server in basically all phases of projects, like POC’s, presentations, designs, implementations etc.  (Unless you ask my parents, they will say I'm a PC doctor :). Sander is usually involved in different phases of

White Paper: Supportability and operations of Microsoft BizTalk Server

My first white paper on BizTalk Server has been published. The title is Supportability and operations of BizTalk Server and it can be downloaded through this link . The white paper will discuss supportability of BizTalk Server. Something you should be thinking of when setting up a BizTalk environment or when your current environment lacks or needs improvement in that aspect. Thinking about supportability of BizTalk from the very beginning should be one of the best practices that organizations need to implement. Because the team responsible for supporting the BizTalk Server environment is not involved at the beginning, during the deployment of the environment or are pulled into a project at the very end, in many projects the supportability is overlooked or not part of the initial project plan. This will lead to increasing costs of supporting the BizTalk environment as the administrators are ill prepared, poorly trained or may lack the necessary skills, and even worse given a poorly

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Mark Burch

In the previous story about BizTalk community members I introduced Genuine Basil , who works for Burch Technologies , Sydney Australia. I was able to get hold of the founder of Burch Technologies, Mark Burch who I interviewed for the BizTalk Community Series. Mark has been been around BizTalk for a long time since 1999 and runs a blog on integration called BizTorque since 2006. Here is his story. Mark Burch , 34 years of age is a technology entrepreneur. He lives in Sydney Australia. He’s a graduate of Singularity University, a Microsoft VTSP for Integration, and Director and Founder of technology companies. Burch Technologies are his BizTalk/Integration/App Dev consulting company. InvoiceSmash his new SAAS product – launching out of beta in Dec 2012. Mark has been working on BizTalk since 1999, when Microsoft released the BizTalk Jumpstart Kit …before BizTalk 2000 was released. His employer at the time was jumping on the XML bandwagon, when no one really knew what it meant.