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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Torben Chrona Christiansen

The year 2013 promises to be a great year for us BizTalk professionals. BizTalk Server 2013 will be released in a few months, the beta is currently available on-premise and in Windows Azure. A few events have taken place already this month like the BizTalk Summits in London , Amsterdam and Stockholm. There will be more events coming this year. A lot of community involvement in 2013. Today’s story will be on Torben Chrona Christiansen , a fellow BizTalk professional with a passion for BizTalk Server. Torben lives with his family (a wife, a son at the age of 3 and a son almost 1 year old) in Blovstroed about half an hour drive north of Copenhagen . He has a great interest in photography, loves to take pictures and runs a website about camera gear. Torben likes to run when he has time for it and each autumn he tries to participate in the Eremitagelobet . He is also a big fan of the soccer team FC Copenhagen (FCK) and if he has the chance he will go to their home games at their st

BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: WCF-NetTcpRelay

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This is the second post on new adapters that will be shipped with BizTalk Server 2013. The post is based on BizTalk Server 2013 Beta. In this post I like to demonstrate the WCF-NetTcpRelay adapter. The WCF-NetTcpRelay adapter can be used with BizTalk to send and receive messages from the Service Bus relay endpoints using the NetTcpRelayBinding . When configuring for instance a request response receive port, you can enable a receive location using the NetTcpRelayBinding . The receive location with contains an address using the “ sb ” URI scheme. Through the receive location the endpoint (address) will be registered in the Windows Azure Service Bus. The URI consists of the namespace available in Windows Azure Portal Service Bus. Windows Azure is multitenant and therefore to manage the service bus capacities like relay has to be done through a unique namespace (see Create Namespace section of How to Use the Service Bus Relay Service ). The following scenario will describe a wa

BizTalk Summit London 2013 – The experience

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The BizTalk Summit 2013 in London was a huge success . Saravana Kumar from BizTalk360 did an outstanding job organizing this event with Microsoft. Over a 140 attendees,  more than 70 different companies from 15 different countries (UK, Ireland, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway, India). Including the speakers there were 10 Microsoft Integration MVPs present. On the Q&A panel there was Jon Fancey, Michael Stephenson and Charles Young. Stephen W. Thomas flew over from the US to attend the event. My session was straight after the Keynote by Guru Venkataraman / Ravi Krishnaswamy from Microsoft Product Group. I was given the opportunity to co-present with Guru in Almere (Avande) during the special BizTalk User Group event. In London I did a session on the new cloud related adapters that’s going to ship with BizTalk Server 2013. BizTalk 2013 will feature some new adapters, the WCF-BasicHttpRel

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Mark Brimble

This year I like to continue with the BizTalk Community Series . In January 2012 I started with Tord G. Nordahl , who recently was awarded Microsoft Integration MVP . He was very committed to the BizTalk community for quite a while and proven to be a great contributor to the community. I ended with 25th story on my colleague Sander Nefs . The story today will be on Mark Brimble a Principle Integration Architect since 2007 for Datacom in Auckland , New Zealand (NZ). This company has the largest group of BizTalk professionals in NZ (24 people). He spends most of his spare time with his wife Margaret and daughter Rebecca. Rebecca is a bassoon player and Mark attends her concerts when he can. He also enjoys travelling with his wife, who speaks at many overseas conferences.  Mark also enjoys playing chess and likes to go fishing. He plays tennis and golf when time allows. When it comes to team sports Mark supports the All Blacks rugby team and any team playing Australia. Mark’s

Speaking about BizTalk in London and Amsterdam

The year 2013 will start with two events where I will be speaking. First, on January 16nd I’ll be in London during the BizTalk Summit 2013 hosted by Microsoft UK in their headquarters. It is organized by fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Saravana Kumar ( BizTalk360 ) and Microsoft UK. Saravana and I will be joined on stage by Microsoft Integration MVP’s Tord Nordahl , Sandro Pereira and Nino Crudele . My session will be on the new adapters in BizTalk Server 2013 . In this session I will focus on adapters that can be used for integration with cloud services and applications. These adapters are the WCF-BasicHttpRelay , WCF-NetTcpRelay , SB-Messaging and WCF-HttpWeb . In this session there will be 5 demo’s on to how to use these adapters. Next on the 22nd of January I will be at an event hosted by middleware service provider ESTREME . There will be joined on stage by fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Saravana Kumar , Richard Seroter , who’s touring the Netherlands and Sweden, and De

BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: WCF-BasicHttpRelay

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In next couple of weeks I like to do a series of blog posts on the new adapters provided in the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2013. In this post I like to demonstrate the WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter . The WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter can be used with BizTalk to send and receive messages from the Service Bus relay endpoints using the BasicHttpRelayBinding . This is a binding that BizTalk can use to configure endpoints which can communicate with ASMX-based Web services and other services that conform to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1. The BasicHttpRelayBinding is derived from the standard BasicHttpBinding . However, the key difference between the two is that the BasicHttpRelayBinding can create publicly reachable and, if required, publicly discoverable HTTP listener endpoint listening on the Windows Azure Service Bus, while the BasicHttpBinding listens through the standard HTTP.sys listener on the local Windows computer. The following scenario will describe a way to send messages t

My year 2012 In retrospective

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First of all happy new year!  In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2012 went. For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2011 . To summarize all my activity bullet wise: I have had multiple speaking engagements in the Netherlands and abroad (Canada, Sweden, Norway) Had a book published the BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook through Packt Publishing Technically review another the (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide Published a white paper on Supportability and operation of BizTalk Written dozen blog posts on this blog, BizTalkadminsblogging and on TechNetWiki Blog Created the blog post series on BizTalk community members Written multiple TechNet wiki articles on BizTalk During 2012 I became good friends with quite a few people. Some of them I visited their homes, wedding and companies. It is great to have Kent Weare , Randal van Splunteren , Richard Seroter , Tord G. Nordahl , Sandro Pereira , Saravana Kumar , Nino Crude